Registrar's Warrants

The Registrar’s Course Warrant (RW) allows Departments/Faculties to take advantage of the opportunity to offer a new course that the Department/Faculty was unable to include in the Faculty’s Calendar submission.

A course may be offered on RW for one calendar year. Following this year, an RW course may be offered on an ongoing basis pending the Department/Faculty’s next Calendar Submission. As such, RW courses are distinctly identified within the Undergraduate Calendar under the Registrar’s Course Warrant header.

CRIM2204	Women, Crime and Criminal Justice	3 ch
Explore women's involvement in crime and the criminal justice system in Canada. Criminological theories have been developed based on male-centered research, rendering women invisible or simply added to an existing approach without considering gender specificities. This course addresses the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class inequality, as well as how women become offenders and how they are treated within the criminal justice system. Women as victims in the criminal justice system and how the criminal justice system has responded are also discussed. Finally, this course examines the roles of women working in the criminal justice system.

SOCI2204	Women, Crime and Criminal Justice	3 ch
Explore women's involvement in crime and the criminal justice system in Canada. Criminological theories have been developed based on male-centered research, rendering women invisible or simply added to an existing approach without considering gender specificities. This course addresses the intersections of gender, race, ethnicity, and class inequality, as well as how women become offenders and how they are treated within the criminal justice system. Women as victims in the criminal justice system and how the criminal justice system has responded are also discussed. Finally, this course examines the roles of women working in the criminal justice system.

MAAC2101	Graphic Design I	3 ch
Introduces two-dimensional design fundamentals with an emphasis on typography and layout and their interaction with imagery. Explores core concepts of image, form, colour, proportion and space, as well as design software, digital workflow, and the practice of design critiques. Credit cannot be counted for both MAAC 2101 and MAAC 3101.

ENGL3815	African and Black Diasporic Literature	3 ch
Surveys twentieth- and twenty-first centruay African and Black diasporic literature. Investigates representations of Blackness and how it is shaped by the politics of gender, sexuality, social class, nation, and empire. Gain an understanding of the cultural and historical contexts that inform artistic production. Cover key critical and theoretical concepts in the field of postcolonial studies such as mimicry, transnationalism, and revolution. Authors may include Chinua Achebe, Nuruddin Farah, Amam Ata Aidoo, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Jamaica Kincaid, Akwaeke Emezi, Langston Hughes, Lynn Nottage, M. NourbeSe Philip, and David Chariandy.

ARTS1014	Arts First: Understanding Data	3 ch
Explore quantitative approaches in the Social Sciences and Humanities in this non-technical course. Topics include data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Learn to identify the characteristics of useful data, discover the strategies needed to guide reasonable interpretation of information, and evaluate quantitative analyses in terms of their contributions to advancing knowledge. Skills development labs provide active learning activities. Registration is limited to students in the BA, BAA, BAS, BA/BCS, and BA/BSc programs. Credit can only be obtained for one of ARTS 1000, ARTS 1001, ARTS 1013 or ARTS 1014.

HIST3131	Gender and Sexuality in Early-Modern Europe	3 ch
Examine the social and cultural roles of men and women in Europe's early-modern period (c. 1450-1800). Learn how this time of political turmoil, religious conflict, and military violence cause people to ask new questions and develop new social norms. Consider how gender influenced topics such as sexual lives and practices, medicalized bodies, labour and work, criminality and the law, faith and religion, and family dynamics.

ED5803	Séminaire d'introduction à l'IBEC	3 ch
Ce cours présente un aperçu du Baccalauréat International (IB) comme système éducatif compréhensif et explore le Programme Primaire (PP) en plus de détail. Le premier module discute la philosophie et la pédagogie globale de l’IB. Module 2 met l’accent sur l’enseignement et l’apprentissage. ---- This course provides an introductory and broad overview of the International Baccalaureate (IB) as a coherent system of education with emphasis on the Primary Years Programme (PYP). Module 1 begins by discussing the philosophy and pedagogy of the IB broadly and module 2 focuses on teaching and learning. Co-Requisite: ED 5802

ED5063	Positive Behaviour Intervention Supports: Current Issues and Solutions	3 ch
An examination of current Positive Behaviour Intervention Supports (PBIS) practices in the K - 12 Anglophone public education system in New Brunswick with a particular focus on how PBIS impacts the design, development, and implementation of an inclusive and positive learning and working environment. Students will be given the opportunity to develop significant expertise and a well-articulated position on at least one tenant of PBIS that is relevant to them, their school community, and their professional experience.

FR3024	Learning by Teaching French	3 ch
Improve your French writing skills by understanding and reflecting on common errors in a hands-on, experiential manner. Teaching requires that you reposition yourself as a learner and think about the revising and editing process in a new way. Identify common mistakes in texts written by others and see them as valuable information about which aspects of the language they need to review. Deepen your understanding of the French language by working with your peers in class and during tutoring sessions held at the Department of French. Learn to understand your own mistakes and how to remedy them in a judgment-free environment. Create a portfolio of knowledge and tools to support the continuing development of your French writing skills. This course is designed for all who intend to study or work in French. It is particularly suitable to students wishing to become teachers or tutors in the French language. Prerequisites: at least 2 second-year FR courses

FR3504	Disaster in Francophone Literature and Cinema	3 ch
Explore the forms, themes, and meanings of a series of Francophone literary and cinematic works that textualize disaster in their writing from the 20th and 21st centuries. In the aftermath of World War II, this concept obliges philosophers, artists and intellectuals to question humanist culture and find new ways of thinking about and representing catastrophe. Examine Francophone narratives, graphic novels, documentaries and films concerning experiences of war, concentration camps, the nuclear bomb, Cambodian genocide, and AIDS. Understand and discuss the ways in which the works studied confront incommensurability and respond to disaster by inscribing it in their fabric thematically and structurally.

POLS4729	Social Policy from Cradle to Grave	3 ch (W)
Explores social policies related to abortion, childcare and poverty, same-sex marriage, gang violence and youth incarceration, disability and accessibility, pension and retirement, and dying and assisted suicide, using human life trajectory from conception to death as a road map.

KIN4482	Maternal & Child Health	3 ch
A thorough investigation into the promotion of maternal and infant well-being, spanning prenatal care, childbirth, postpartum support, newborn care, and community resources. This course blends theory with practical skills, empowering students to play pivotal roles in improving the health outcomes of mothers and babies across diverse healthcare and community settings.

PHIL1402	Problem of Self Knowledge	3 ch
Explore ancient, modern and contemporary authors that help us reflect on the problem of self knowledge. Socrates once said “The unexamined life is not worth living.” If self- knowledge is a necessary part of that examination, should we expect it to be the most straightforward part? Is knowledge of ourself easier to achieve than knowledge in the scientific, ethical or policy domains, just because we are more familiar with ourself? In this introductory course, we examine self-knowledge as a problem that is bound up in larger philosophical questions of human nature, freedom, the good, the role of society in our self understanding, and the grounds for knowledge itself. We explore both historical and contemporary sources (philosophical, literary, and film) ranging from Plato and Sophocles to Descartes,Dostoevsky, Woody Allen and Asghar Farhadi.

ARTS1024	Arts First: Human Flourishing	3 ch
Explore what it means to be human and to live a full and flourishing life. Discover how different peoples from the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds have wrestled with these fundamental questions. Engage with texts, images, objects, and sacred stories that situate humanity in relation to gods, monsters, and the natural world. Gain an understanding of how certain definitions of the human have been used throughout history to legitimize oppression and destruction. Join contemporary thinkers, authors, and artists in reimagining human flourishing in the present day and for the future. A skills development lab component provides active learning activities focused on close reading/viewing/listening, critical analysis, effective research, and meaningful communication. Registration is limited to students in the BA, BAA, BAS, BA/BCS, BA/BSc programs. Credit can only be obtained for one of ARTS 1000, ARTS 1002, ARTS 1023 or ARTS 1024.

HIST3801	Gender and War	3 ch (3C)
Explore the relationship between gender and war from multiple geographical and temporal perspectives to consider how humans have long been impacted by global conflict. Consider continuity and change, and cause and consequence, in the gendered histories of soldiers and civilians through themes such as the following: propaganda and recruitment; the evolution of military cultures; everyday experiences of conflict; queer histories of military violence; the control of sexual lives, including sexual violence as a weapon of war; and the prosecution of international war crimes.

HIST5145	Microhistories	3 ch
Explore how scholars use microhistory, a subdiscipline that focuses on a specific person, event, or other small-scale topic, to illuminate broader historical themes and processes and understand the past. Examine local and global encounters that connect diverse historical subjects. Read a range of stories and gain exposure to a variety of historiographical debates to identify different approaches to writing history.

HIST5435	US Foreign Relations since 1898	3 ch (3S)
Considers the history and historiography of the encounters between Americans and foreign peoples, from the war against Spain in the late nineteenth century to the war against terrorism in the early twenty-first century. Will focus on problems and controversies, both those embedded in the history itself and those that have arisen in its interpretation by historians. This reading-intensive seminar will acquaint students with a variety of approaches to the study of international affairs.

ENGL5987	Under the (Book) Covers: Sex in British Literature, 1748-present	3 ch (W)
Explore the the wide-ranging representations of sex in British Literature from the long eighteenth century to the present and consider the aesthetics of intimacy in all its pleasures and pains. Study key novels, plays, poems, and pictorial narratives that reveal attitudes around sex, sexuality and gender from eighteenth-century life to our present day. Grapple with questions of the body; boundaries of the subject and the object; performativity; love, marriage, and breakups; the theatricalization of personal spaces; the affect of sex; abjection; objecthood; clumsy scenes; disappointment and resentment; obscenity, pornography, and censorship. Prerequisite: B+ average in ENGL; open to ENGL Honours students.

ARTS1004	Arts Lab: Essential Skills II	3 ch (W)
Addresses the specific skills first-year Arts students need in the Winter term, including building a learning community; reading, writing, research, and study skills; and support for planning the next steps of their Arts education. Includes one lecture and one lab per week. Labs will include guided planning, writing, research, and study sessions. Registration restricted to students in a Faculty of Arts degree program.

HIST3346	Controversies in Canadian History	3 ch
Examine debates surrounding historical events and the ways that we remember these events. Investigate stories that paint Canada as a "refuge" for runaway slaves, a "multicultural" country, and a "peacekeeping" nation, or the Prairies as being a "mild west" rather than a "wild west." Explore why these stories persist, despite evidence to the contrary. Analyse how recent memorialization controversies, including those regarding statues valorizing Prime Minister John A. McDonald, Halifax "founder" Edward Cornwallis, and the Famous First five-wave feminists, have played out in public.

PHIL3212	Introduction to Ethical Decision-Making in Rehabilitation Sciences	3 ch
Explore the fundamental ethical theories and decision-making frameworks essential for professionals and students interested in the field of rehabilitation sciences. In this asynchronous online course, participants will apply ethical theories and decision-making frameworks to a variety of case studies specific to rehabilitation sciences. Participatants will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to navigate complex ethical dilemmas inherent in reahbilitation practice.

MAAC3076	Documentary Film Workshop (Cross-Listed with FILM 3076)	3 ch
Provides students with an introduction to contemporary documentary film practices and production. Students learn how to produce, direct, shoot, and edit documentary films. Focus is on the creation of independent work with small teams and limited resources. Production topics include lighting, sound, interview skills, basic editing, etc. Student work will be supported by screenings, demonstrations, discussions, and critique. Prerequisites: MAAC/FILM 2998 and MAAC/FILM 3075.

FILM3076	Documentary Film Workshop (Cross-Listed: MAAC 3076)	3 ch
Provides students with an introduction to contemporary documentary film practices and production. Students learn how to produce, direct, shoot, and edit documentary films. Focus is on the creation of independent work with small teams and limited resources. Production topics include lighting, sound, interview skills, basic editing, etc. Student work will be supported by screenings, demonstrations, discussions, and critique. Prerequisites: MAAC/FILM 2998 and MAAC/FILM 3075.

ENVM5993	Scientific Writing and Communication	3 ch (3C) W
Focuses on teaching the mechanics of what to do with the results of original research. Emphasis will be placed on logic, concision, and parsimony - which will guide a semester-logn tour of communicating science to others. The main methods of communication to be discussed will be thesis creation, peer-reviewed scientific articals (how to review, write, and publish them), presentation to both scientists and non-scientists, and translating science into policy. Prerequisites: Enrollment in ENVM/FOR 4991, or registered as a graduate student.