Liberal Arts

Director

Linda Steer

Associate Professor

Michael Driedger, Linda Steer

Co-operating Centres and Departments

Business, Classics, Dramatic Arts, Earth Sciences, English Language and Literature, History, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Visual Arts

Academic Adviser

Liz Hay

General Information

Administrative Assistant

Sylvia Barlow

905-688-5550, extension 4752

573 Glenridge 213

brocku.ca/humanities/departments-and-centres/liberal-arts/

Program Notes

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts

Honours

Year 2 is now closed

	LART 4P99 (see program note 1)
	one and one-half LART credits numbered 1(alpha)90 or above (see program note 3)
	one LART credit number 3(alpha)90 or above (see program note 3)

Liberal Arts and Business (Honours only)

Year 3

Year 3 is now closed

Year 4

	LART 4P99
	one and one-half LART credits numbered 3(alpha)90 or above
	FNCE 3P93 or OBHR 3P97
	two and one-half elective credits (see program note 3)

Pass Program

Year 2 is now closed

one LART credit numbered 3(alpha)90 or above (see program note 3)

Description of Courses

Note that not all courses are offered in every session. Refer to the applicable term timetable for details.

# Indicates a cross listed course

* Indicates a primary offering of a cross listed course

Prerequisites and Restrictions

Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.

LART 1F93

Order and Chaos in the Cosmos

Important works of science, philosophy, literature and art addressing the origin and structure of the universe and its association with the divine. Readings include selections from the Bible, Lucretius, Plato, Aristotle, Copernicus, Galileo, Milton, Newton, Darwin, Einstein, Dawkins and Hawking.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

#LART 1Q98

Introduction to Visual Culture

(also offered as IASC 1Q98 and VISA 1Q98)

Concepts of art, its vocabulary, structure and varied cultural contexts. Problems of meaning, visual perception and formal structure of the visual arts, functions of art in contemporary society, the function of galleries and museums, and the role of patrons and critics. Contemporary critical methodology.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: no studio work. May be offered online.

#LART 1Q99

Introduction to the History of Western Art

(also offered as IASC 1Q99 and VISA 1Q99)

Analysis of key monuments and on the prerequisite technology, as well as on various ways of looking at the visual past and present. Focus on the visual arts from prehistory through the early 20th century.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: no studio work. May be offered online.

#LART 2P75

Western Science From Aristotle to Newton

(also offered as HIST 2P75 and MARS 2P75)

Western science from Greek natural philosophy through Arabic, Medieval and Renaissance science to the Scientific Revolution.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: no background in science is required.

#LART 2P76

Making Modern Science

(also offered as HIST 2P76)

Science from the Enlightenment to the atomic bomb including the Industrial Revolution; rise of Big Science; and Darwin, science and religion.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Note: no background in science is required.

#LART 2P80

Shakespeare 1590-1603

(also offered as ENGL 2P80)

Representative plays from the first half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of fin-de-siècle Elizabethan England.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, MARS 1F90 or permission of the instructor.

#LART 2P81

Shakespeare 1603-1614

(also offered as ENGL 2P81)

Representative plays from the second half of Shakespeare's dramatic career emphasizing theoretical and cultural issues raised by the plays in the context of the opening decade of James I's culturally divisive reign.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

*LART 2P82

Shakespeare's Comedies

(also offered as ENGL 2P82)

Representative comedies and tragicomedies emphasizing the variety of Shakespeare's comic modes, from the grotesque to the miraculous, and on theoretical approaches to the comic.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

*LART 2P83

Shakespeare's Tragedies

(also offered as ENGL 2P83)

Shakespeare's development of tragedy as a genre in the context of early modern aesthetic and cultural concerns. Attention to recent theoretical approaches.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

#LART 2P91

Political Theory I

(also offered as POLI 2P91)

Ancient political philosophy, focusing on the theory and critique of Athenian democracy. May include texts by Homer, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, plays from Greek tragedy and comedy, and texts from Rome, Late Antiquity or the Middle Ages.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.

Note: strongly recommended that students take this course if they intend to take POLI 2P92.

#LART 2P99

Ideas and Culture before 1850

(also offered as HIST 2P99)

Major developments in European intellectual and cultural life, such as the Renaissance, the Scientific Revolution, the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the emergence of modern ideologies.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART, HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

#LART 2Q91

Performance as Cultural Practice 1

(also offered as DART 2Q91)

Integrated study of western and non-western theatre and performance histories, theory, and dramatic literature from theories and debates concerning "origins" to the advent of realism in the 19th century, focusing on the context of cultural developments, including theories of acting, dramatic criticism and theatre historiography.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to DART (single or combined), DART (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate)majors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one of one LART credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, DART 1F91 (1F93), one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the Department.

Note: materials fee may be required. Students with credit in IASC 1F01 (1F00) may be able to register. Contact the Department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in LART (DART) 2F94.

#LART 2Q92

Performance as Cultural Practice 11

(also offered as DART 2Q92)

Integrated study of avant-garde theatre, performance, theory, and dramatic literature in the late 19th and early 20th century, focusing on the context of cultural developments, including theories of acting, dramatic criticism and theatre historiography.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to DART (single or combined), DART (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and BA Integrated Studies (Honours)/BEd (Junior/Intermediate)majors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): DART 2Q91 or one ENGL credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above.

Note: materials fee may be required. Students with one IASC credit may be able to register. Contact the Department.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in LART (DART) 2F94.

#LART 3P00

Ideas and Culture since 1850

(also offered as HIST 3P00)

Intellectual and cultural developments in Europe and America during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART, HIST (single or combined) and HIST (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) majors and minors until date specified in Registration guide.

Prerequisite(s): one HIST credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 and one HIST credit numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

#LART 3P11

Early Greek Literature

(also offered as CLAS 3P11)

Emergence and development of literary genres in the Greek world, including epic and lyric poetry, tragedy, history, and philosophy. May include Homer, Sappho, Pindar, the pre-Socratics, Herodotus and Aeschylus.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, CLAS 1P91, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00.

#LART 3P12

Classical and Hellenistic Greek Literature

(also offered as CLAS 3P12)

Tragedies, comedies and rhetoric of fifth-century Athens, and the epic, lyric and pastoral poetry of Hellenistic Alexandria. May include Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Apollonius of Rhodes and Theocritus.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, CLAS 1P91, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00.

#LART 3P13

Literature of the Roman Republic

(also offered as CLAS 3P13)

Emergence and development of literary genres in Rome, including new comedy, satire, history, rhetoric, lyric and epic poetry. May include Plautus, Livy, Horace, Cicero and Vergil.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, CLAS 1P92, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00.

#LART 3P14

Literature of the Roman Empire

(also offered as CLAS 3P14)

Literary changes and development from Augustus and the Julio-Claudian emperors to Constantine, including the emergence of the novel. May include Ovid, Juvenal, Petronius, Tacitus and Apuleius.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of LART 1F90, 1F91, CLAS 1P92, 1P95, 1P97, 2P00.

*LART 3P92

Imitation in Art and Culture

(also offered as STAC 3P92 and VISA 3P92)

Imitation in Western visual art and culture from Plato to postmodernism focusing on the Renaissance and the modern period.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in LART (STAC/VISA) 3V96.

#LART 3P93

Politics and Technology

(also offered as POLI 3P93)

Assessing the relation between technology and politics including considerations on evolving conceptions of citizenship, aesthetics and economics. Authors may include Marx, Heidegger, Foucault, Latour and Haraway.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): one of POLI 2P91, 2P92 or 2P93.

#LART 3P94

Literary Criticism

(also offered as ENGL 3P94)

Literary criticisms from Aristotle to Brooks and Leavis emphasizing enduring literary critical problems.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

Prerequisite(s): two ENGL credits numbered 2(alpha)00 to 2(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.

#LART 3P97

Appropriation in Art and Culture

(also offered as STAC 3P97 and VISA 3P97)

Authorship and appropriation in visual and literary culture. Topics include the historical development of the notions of the artist, copyright and plagiarism, quotation, parody and intertextuality, the role of found objects, collage and montage, and the significance of digital technologies. Historical and contemporary examples from a wide range of media.

Lectures, 3 hours per week.

LART 3V90-3V99

Special Topics in Liberal Arts

Selected topics in Western or non-Western works of art, literature, philosophy, history, science and/or theology.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

#LART 4P01

The Philosophy of Law

(also offered as POLI 4P01)

Traditional and contemporary accounts of law and their implications for issues of contemporary concern.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

#LART 4P02

Ancient Political Theory

(also offered as POLI 4P02)

Premodern political philosophy examined in the works of Plato and Aristotle, emphasizing those features distinguishing ancient political science and philosophy from that of modernity.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

#LART 4P03

Modern Political Theory

(also offered as POLI 4P03)

Modern political theory examined in selected texts. Topics may include historicism, consent, progress, equality or a selected author such as Rousseau, Kant, Hegel.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

#LART 4P04

Politics and Tyranny

(also offered as POLI 4P04)

Comparative accounts of ancient and modern tyranny examined in light of the question: has political domination varied significantly in the Western tradition.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

#LART 4P07

Postmodern Political Theory

(also offered as POLI 4P07)

Perspectives on the postmodern condition in the works of selected 20th-century thinkers. Topics may include notions on the self; aesthetics and politics; reason and power; the construction of meaning.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

LART 4P10

Modernity

Important works of art, literature, philosophy, science and theology from the 19th and 20th centuries that address such questions as: What does it mean to be modern? Is modernity to be greeted or opposed?

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

LART 4P40

Practicum in Liberal Arts

Independent study combined with supervised teaching responsibilities.

Restriction: permission of the Director.

LART 4P70

Apocalypse in Literature, Art and Music

Fear and hope in the coming end of time, as portrayed by artists, writers and musicians. Focus on the long Judeo-Christian apocalyptic tradition.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

*LART 4P90

Forbidden Knowledge, Dangerous Art

(also offered as STAC 4P90 and VISA 4P90)

Works of art, literature, philosophy and science that were banned for religious, moral or political reasons.

Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.

LART 4P99

Senior Essay and Workshop

Discussion of Liberal Arts and issues related to the preparation of a senior essay.

Seminar, tutorial, two terms.

#LART 4V00-4V09

Selected Problems in Political Theory

(also offered as POLI 4V00-4V09)

Particular writer, work or theoretical problem in political philosophy.

Seminar, 3 hours per week.

Restriction: open to LART and POLS (single or combined) majors with either a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and a minimum 70 percent major average or approval to year 4 (honours).

LART 4V70-4V79

Text and Context

Topics in Literature and Intellectual History.