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• Instructor: Allan Blunt
• Course Day and Time: Tuesday 11:35am-2:25pm

Course description: You have the brains. You have the potential. It is down to me to teach you some theories and techniques that can help you maximize that potential. It is my strong belief that every student who enters my class has the right stuff. But something messes things up for many of them — PROCRASTINATION. I have been studying procrastination for 30 years, and I can tell you this for sure, procrastination is a tricky beast. It is tied into and affects so many things like motivation, self-control, emotions, time management, stress, anxiety, distractions, goal setting, self-identity, learning, and academic success. It is a beast and you need to attack it head-on because university is procrastination’s playground. Another thing that can mess things up for many students are ineffective learning/study methods. Therefore, we are going to look at some powerful research and theory related to learning and memory, with the aim of helping you develop more effective study/learning methods that have been demonstrated to boost grades, in many cases substantially. So, that’s the course in a nutshell — it is a psychology course about motivation, learning, academic success and killing procrastination (or at least taming it). My final words — if you can solve your procrastination puzzle and put in some decent effort then everything else should fall into place, and university will become YOUR playground. Good Luck!

• Instructor: Allan Blunt
• Course Day and Time: Thursday 11:35am-2:25pm

Course description: You have the brains. You have the potential. It is down to me to teach you some theories and techniques that can help you maximize that potential. It is my strong belief that every student who enters my class has the right stuff. But something messes things up for many of them — PROCRASTINATION. I have been studying procrastination for 30 years, and I can tell you this for sure, procrastination is a tricky beast. It is tied into and affects so many things like motivation, self-control, emotions, time management, stress, anxiety, distractions, goal setting, self-identity, learning, and academic success. It is a beast and you need to attack it head-on because university is procrastination’s playground. Another thing that can mess things up for many students are ineffective learning/study methods. Therefore, we are going to look at some powerful research and theory related to learning and memory, with the aim of helping you develop more effective study/learning methods that have been demonstrated to boost grades, in many cases substantially. So, that’s the course in a nutshell — it is a psychology course about motivation, learning, academic success and killing procrastination (or at least taming it). My final words — if you can solve your procrastination puzzle and put in some decent effort then everything else should fall into place, and university will become YOUR playground. Good Luck!

• Instructor: Beth Hughes
• Course Day and Time: Tuesday and Thursday 11:35am-12:55pm

Course description: This course will develop your understanding of Canada as a society by examining the connections between privilege, power and difference. What are the key social problems? What is social injustice? What groups benefit and what groups are oppressed by social injustice? What structures perpetuate social injustice? How can we become more informed and challenge ideas? Most importantly, how can we create social change?

The goal of this course will be to provide you with the skills and tools necessary to critically analyze oppressive social structures that reinforce harmful narratives and assumptions. Our first class will be truly “lit and fire,” because it examines how slang and language change with new social ideas. Other topics covered include identity, racism, consent, crime, addiction, poverty, racialization, health, addictions, education, the environment, globalization and others that interest you. Lastly, you get to choose a social issue of your choice, and you will analyze the power of individual action and social movements to communicate and create meaningful change.

Our class will go step-by-step, taking a thoughtful and planned approach to how all these ideas fit together. There will be fun and joy in expressing your ideas along the way. These engaging ideas will provide you with many opportunities to understand and develop strong academic skills that will serve you well at university and in future employment:
• reading, writing, revising,
• critical thinking and how to position an argument,
• researching and reading,
• time management, including procrastination,
• early career exploration, and so much more.

The following quotation will guide our work together this year. “Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world. We can be a better one–a country of greater equality, justice, and opportunity. We can build a prosperous economy and a society that shares its benefits more fairly” (Jack Layton, 2011).

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• Instructor: Kory Smith
• Course Day and Time: Wednesday 6:05pm-8:55pm

Course description: In Canada, almost half of adults will experience a serious legal issue over the course of a three-year period. Yet, many of these individuals lack meaningful access to legal justice. Barriers related to financial cost, time, complexity, lack of information, and availability of legal services result in legal problems going unaddressed. Vulnerable and marginalized populations experience further barriers to accessing legal justice. Timely access to legal justice will help support the well-being of individuals and communities. 

This interdisciplinary first-year seminar will provide you with theoretical and methodological tools to help you understand and respond to access to legal justice issues. You will explore questions from legal, sociological, historical, philosophical, and political perspectives. Questions that will be addressed include: What is justice? What is legal justice? What is access to legal justice? What are the causes and consequences of unmet legal needs? What are the experiences of justice system participants? What is the relationship between access to legal justice and inequality and oppression? What are some potential solutions to access to legal justice problems?

This course is designed to be as experiential as possible. Methods of instruction include interactive lecturing, class discussion, student presentations, field trips, and guest speakers. Assignments and in-class activities will be used to help you develop the following academic skills: studying, research, writing, and oral communication. Your grade in the course will be based on several different types of evaluation: attendance and participation, weekly journal entries, an essay proposal and annotated bibliography, an essay, and a presentation and presentation reflection. 

You’ll take: Economics (ECON) in the Fall AND Economics in the Winter

 FALL: ECON 1001 A: Introduction to Microeconomics

Course description: An introduction to the major tools and policy problems of microeconomics. Economic analysis is applied to a variety of contemporary issues such as taxation, pollution, wage determination, poverty, market power, and international trade.

• Instructor: Carolina Czastkiewicz
• Course Day and Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:05am-11:25am
• Tutorial Day and Time: Several different tutorial times offered:
  • Tuesday 11:35am-12:25pm
  • Tuesday 1:35pm-2:25pm
  • Wednesday 6:05pm-6:55pm (Online)
  • Wednesday 7:05pm-7:55pm (Online)
  • Thursday 11:35am-11:35am-12:25pm
  • Thursday 1:35pm-2:25pm
• ESP Workshop Day and Time: Friday 11:35am-1:25pm
• Workshop Facilitator Name: Taylor Jude

WINTER: ECON 1002 B: Introduction to Macroeconomics

Course description: An introduction to the major tools and policy problems of macroeconomics. Economic analysis is applied to a variety of contemporary problems such as: saving, investment and interest rates; unemployment; money and inflation; exchange rates; fiscal and monetary policy.

• Instructor: Carolina Czastkiewicz
• Course Day and Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:05am-11:25am
• Tutorial Day and Time: Several different tutorial times offered:
  • Tuesday 11:35am-12:25pm
  • Tuesday 1:35pm-2:25pm
  • Wednesday 2:35pm-3:25pm
  • Wednesday 4:35pm-5:25pm
  • Thursday 6:05pm-6:55pm
  • Thursday 7:05pm-7:55pm
• ESP Workshop Day and Time: Thursday 2:35pm-4:25pm
• Workshop Facilitator Name: Taylor Jude

You’ll take: Mathematics (MATH) in the Fall AND Business (BUSI) in the Winter

 FALL: MATH 1009 A: Mathematics for Business

Course description: An introductory course of mathematics for business. Thorough review of basic arithmetic and algebra. Elementary functions, their graphs, properties and applications in business models. Limits. Derivatives of elementary functions. Systems of linear equations/inequalities. Geometric series.

• Instructor: Elena Devdariani
• Course Day and Time: Monday and Wednesday 10:05am-11:25am
• Tutorial Day and Time: Wednesday 2:35pm-3:25pm
• ESP Workshop Day and Time: Monday 1:35pm-3:25pm
• Workshop Facilitator Name: Zarin Hossain

WINTER: BUSI 1800 D: Introduction to Business

Course description: Introduction to contemporary businesses in a complex economy, their role in the society, their history. The various functions that come together to define a business will be examined. All forms of business communications emphasized.

• Instructor: TBD
• Course Day and Time: Monday 2:35pm-4:25pm
• Tutorial Day and Time: Several different tutorial times offered:
  • Monday 4:25pm-5:25pm
  • Tuesday 11:35am-12:25pm
  • Tuesday 12:35pm-1:25pm
  • Tuesday 2:35pm-3:25pm
  • Wednesday 1:35pm-2:25pm
  • Thursday 11:35am-12:25pm
• ESP Workshop Day and Time: Wednesday 11:35am-1:25pm
• Workshop Facilitator Name: Zarin Hossain