Bachelor of Behavioural Science - Postsecondary Education Quality ...

Upper Course Title Calendar Course Description
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Lower Material Culture Material culture refers to our social interaction with the multitude
of everyday items, objects, and spaces that populate our shared
milieu. Household objects, work environments, sacred items,
roads, buildings and even written language itself are objects of
material culture through which we make ourselves sensible to
others and to ourselves. This course concerns itself with our
ongoing ability to make meaning of our world by naming,
designating, and assigning attributes to things, something we
do in everyday life often without reflection. Both as theorists
and as users of objects, we can address how we come to see
as normal and natural the everyday physical objects and built
forms that we as a culture have created through the collective
imagination.
Human made objects are durable and persist through
generations, making their presence known to subsequent
generations, who may use them as devices to interpret past
lives and past ways of acting and thinking. A sociology of
material culture, then, can be thought of as an archaeology of
the present, investigating how we understand ourselves and
each other through the physical things around us.
Lower Microbiology This course introduces students to the biology of
microorganisms such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa.
These organisms will be studied in terms of their classification,
physiology and distribution with an emphasis on their medical
significance. Epidemiology of infectious disease including
disease transmission, control procedures and body defense
mechanisms will also be studied.
Lower Microeconomics Students are introduced to the concepts and analytical tools of
microeconomics to examine how society and individuals use
limited resources to meet their needs. Students develop an
understanding of current events in the context of microeconomic
theories including supply, demand, prices, incomes, markets,
competition and market structures. Students examine the
concepts of market failure and market power and the need for
government intervention to achieve social and political goals.
Lower
Money, Markets
and Democracy
ECON 200
Over the past two-and-a-half decades, capital markets have
markedly grown in influence, increasingly taking over from
governments and banks the tasks of financing economic activity
and serving the public‘s saving and retirement needs. After
introducing students to the operational and regulatory
framework of the currency, bond, equity, mutual/hedge funds,
and derivative markets, the course poses the question: Do
these markets, on balance, negatively or positively influence the
social structure, economy, and politics of nations In assessing
this issue, the course surveys the debate surrounding theories
of capital market efficiency and rationality, the history of
recurring financial bubble and crash sequences, social justice
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