Carleton University
Ottawa Canada
Senate Curriculum Committee
October 16, 2007
To: Senate
From Brian Mortimer, Clerk
Re: Topics for Graduate Special Topics Courses for 2007-8 – Late submissions
The following topics for graduate special topics courses for 2007-8 have been approved
by the graduate faculty board and are presented to Senate for information.
Philosophy, Computer Science and Cognitive Science
PHIL 5000, CGSC 5900, COMP 5900 and CSI 5140 [0.5 credit]
Special Topic in Philosophy/Computer Science/Cognitive Science
Topic for Fall 2007: Computational Logic
Logic-based specifications and their computational processing. Formal logics for
modeling and specifying systems, computational objects and processes. Automated
reasoning tools for problem solving and system verification. Relevance to semantic web
and ontologies, knowledge and data management, formal specifications in software
engineering, and theory of computing.
Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as COMP 4900 for
which additional credit is precluded.
History
HIST 5006 [1.0 credit]
Seminar in Medieval History
Selected problems relating to medieval history. Topic for 2007-08 is “Medieval
Monasticism”.
HIST 5100 [1.0 credit]
Seminar in Early Modern European -History
A selected problem in the history of Europe during the early modern period. Topic for
2007-08 is “The History of the Book (1450-1800)”. Also offered at the undergraduate
level with different requirements, as HIST 4100, for which additional credit is precluded.
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HIST 5200 [1.0 credit]
Seminar in European History
A selected problem or period in the history of Europe. Topic for 2007-08 is “Europe from
War to War: Politics, Culture, and Society, 1914-1939”. Also offered at the
undergraduate level with different requirements, as HIST 4200, for which additional
credit is precluded.
HIST 5310 [1.0 credit]
Canada: Culture and Ideas
A seminar in the history of Canadian culture and ideas. Topics for 2007-08: Section T “Culture and Nation in Canada”; Section U - “The Social History of the Soldier, 1900 to
the Present”.
HIST 5311 [1.0 credit]
Canada: Politics and Diplomacy
A seminar in the history of Canadian politics and diplomacy. Topics for 2007-08: Section
T - “Booze, Debauchery and Politics, 1848-1918”; Section U - “The Life and Times of
the National Policy, 1878-1988”.
HIST 5312 [1.0 credit]
Canadian Social History
A seminar in Canadian social history. Topics for 2007-08: “Identity, Memory and
Migration”.
HIST 5313 [1.0 credit]
Canadian Regional History
A seminar in Canadian regional history. Topic for 2007-08 is “Imagining the Canadian
West”.
HIST 5400 [1.0 credit]
Seminar in American History
Research seminar in American history. Topics for 2007-08: Section T -“The Long
Sixties: the United States from 1958 to 1975; Section U - “A Liberal Empire? Culture
and ideological transformations, 1877-1941”
HIST 5509 [1.0 credit]
Seminar on Women and Gender
Selected problems relating to the history of women and gender. Topic for 2007-08 is
“Women and Gender in the Cold War Era”
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HIST 5702 [0.5 credit]
Public History Special Topics
Theoretical and practical instruction in topical areas such as “history and new media,”
“oral history,” “museums and national memory,” “community history,” “visual media,”
“material history,” etc. Topics for 2007-08: Section F, “Oral History”; Section W, “Place
and Identity: Local and Community History”; Section X, “Canadian Pasts”.
HIST 5708 [1.0 credit]
Seminar in World History
A selected problem or period in the history of Asia-Oceania, Africa, or Latin America.
Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as HIST 4700, for
which additional credit is precluded. Topics for 2007-08: Section T, “Race, Class and
Gender in the Atlantic World”; Section U, “Terrorism in History”.
HIST 5800 [1.0 credit]
International History
A seminar in international history; the themes and historical period will be specified each
year. Topic for 2007-08 is “Origins and Causes of the Second World War”.
History, Cultural Mediations and English
HIST 5906, CLMD 6106 and ENGL 5900 [0.5 credit]
Selected Topics - Non-Canadian Field
A seminar in an area not covered by an existing graduate course. Topic for winter 2008 is
“Issues in History and Culture”. History as an object of representation and a condition of
human experience. Historical approaches to print, visual, and auditory culture in relation
to theoretical texts and specific periods and genres. Topics may include history and the
novel, visual culture in history, and historiography.
English
ENGL 5000 [0.5 credit]
Literary Criticism
For 2007-08, the topic is: Contemporary Literary Theory.
A survey of the major theories of literature from the 1920s to the present. Particular
attention will be given to theories of the text and to the ethics of criticism. (Also offered
as CLST 6803F)
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Cultural Mediations
CLMD 6902F [0.5 credit]
Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
For 2007-08, the topic is: United States Culture in the Age of Experience: 1945-1973
In this course, we will explore innovations in the arts of the post-WWII era. Examining
abstract expressionism, beat poetry, new journalism, and direct cinema, we will consider
the impact of military expansion, movements for gender and racial equality, and the
advent of live television on cultural production. (Also offered as ENGL 5706F)
CLMD 6903W [0.5 credit]
Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
For 2007-08, the topic is: Sound Tracks: Sound, Media and Narrative Form
This course explores media sound tracks--dialogue, music, sound effects (and silence)-and their relationship to narrative form. Classic and contemporary theories of sound;
technology and the restructuring of cinema production and reception; genres and
discursive forms; issues of gender and representation. (Also offered as FILM 5002W)
CLMD 6904F [0.5 credit]
Special Topic in Cultural Mediations
For 2007-08, the topic is: Modernist Genders, Modernist Sexualities
We will consider modernist texts and artistic theory in relation to the cultural context of
modernity to explore how both the content and style of modernism were gendered and
sexualized. Authors include Henry James, Wilde, Joyce, Woolf, Lawrence, Forster,
Imagists, and Vorticists. (Also offered as ENGL 5608F)
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