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Upper<br />

or<br />

Lower<br />

Upper<br />

Course Title<br />

Personality<br />

Psychology<br />

(Advanced Level)<br />

PSYC 404<br />

Calendar Course Description<br />

Steroids, Growth Hormone, IGF-1, Beta-blockers, and<br />

Erythropoeitin (EPO). Students in this course will investigate<br />

the mechanisms by which PED and Nutritional Supplements<br />

deliver their effects, and the detrimental side effects <strong>of</strong> improper<br />

or prolonged usage.<br />

We spend every moment <strong>of</strong> our waking hours dealing with<br />

personalities (even if it's just our own). This course will<br />

introduce students to the field <strong>of</strong> Personality Psychology by<br />

examining the theoretical approaches, assessment instruments,<br />

and research findings that help us understand the fascinating<br />

complexity <strong>of</strong> human personality. Students will become familiar<br />

with the main theoretical approaches to understanding<br />

personality, including Psychoanalytic, Trait, Humanistic, and<br />

Social-Learning, and the research generated by these<br />

approaches that have, in turn, informed their development.<br />

Lower Philosophy <strong>of</strong> Law This course will provide a context for our existing legal system<br />

by exploring the bodies <strong>of</strong> legal thought that theorize the<br />

sources and shaping <strong>of</strong> our laws. This course on legal<br />

philosophy seeks to reveal the historical, moral and cultural<br />

basis <strong>of</strong> our legal concepts, to examine the classical debate<br />

between positivist and naturalist schools <strong>of</strong> thought, and to<br />

critically compare the formalist and realist approaches to<br />

jurisprudence. The issue <strong>of</strong> morally motivated disobedience to<br />

particular unjust laws, and challenges to the legitimacy <strong>of</strong> entire<br />

legal orders are examined in exploring the limits <strong>of</strong> legal order.<br />

Students will also explore the tensions between law as a<br />

protector <strong>of</strong> individual liberty and as a tool <strong>of</strong> democratic selfrule<br />

by analyzing the writing <strong>of</strong> Catharine MacKinnon, John<br />

Stuart Mill, Patrick Devlin, and Ronald Dworkin. The study <strong>of</strong><br />

such contemporary issues as civil liberties, defining equality<br />

rights in the context <strong>of</strong> social justice and feminist approaches to<br />

the rule <strong>of</strong> law enable students to understand law in its function<br />

as a social institution.<br />

Lower<br />

Popular Culture:<br />

An Interdisciplinary<br />

Perspective<br />

(Advanced Level)<br />

HUMA 407<br />

Exactly what is popular culture We all see it, hear it, watch it,<br />

read it, dance to it, and even play it. But where does it come<br />

from What role does it fulfill Is it worth studying more<br />

closely Many sociologists certainly think it is a worthwhile topic<br />

<strong>of</strong> study. This course will explore how popular culture intersects<br />

with other social aspects such as class, race, and gender, and<br />

how it shapes our social history and participates in creating what<br />

George Lipsitz calls our ―collective memory.‖ By analyzing such<br />

areas <strong>of</strong> popular culture as popular film, narrative, music, and<br />

television, we shall evaluate how it formulates an important and<br />

<strong>of</strong>ten complex role in the cultural experience <strong>of</strong> our lives. We<br />

shall also examine how we can usefully apply the theoretical<br />

ideas <strong>of</strong> post-structuralism, Marxism, and feminism to help us<br />

analyze popular culture. Finally, we shall investigate popular<br />

culture‘s relation to politics and consider the following question:<br />

<strong>Bachelor</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Behavioural</strong> <strong>Science</strong> Section D, Page 84

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