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In this course, students explore ancient Greek drama through a study of select plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes. The plays are read in English translation. Students read four plays, one by each playwright. In our reading, students consider such issues as the development of the genre, performance conventions, gender, ethnicity, and religion. Particular attention is paid to the evolving relationship between Athenian drama and the socio-political context of the democracy. Students supplement our investigations with readings from contemporary scholarship.

This course builds on the foundations set in the first year by further exploring the business environment in which civil engineering projects take place. It is part of the design thread through the MEng program. The course introduces the concept of risk management and the different types of risks inherent in the civil engineering industry. It also gives an overview of the organizations involved in the supply chain and the principles of project management and procurement, including ways to improve performance, worker safety, and the environmental impact.

This course examines the diverse roles Aboriginal women have played in Indigenous and Settler societies and investigates historical and contemporary issues and the activism and leadership that Aboriginal women have undertaken. It covers activism and leadership, agency, and power from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous standpoints. It looks at Aboriginal women in contemporary times as well as from early colonial days and on the missions, Aboriginal women feminism and the making of a nation, Aboriginal women’s literature and roles in higher education, Indigenous women in sport, social and emotional wellbeing, as well as Aboriginal women and criminal justice.

This course is an introduction to public international law. It covers evolution, sources, relationship between international and municipal law, the law of treaties, the law of the sea and international institutions, particularly the United Nations.

This course examines the principles of ecology and environmental science, including a required week long field trip in the mid-trimester break. It focuses on physical and biological processes in terrestrial environments and ecosystem functioning. The field trip will introduce techniques relevant to field-based enquiry in ecological and environmental science.

This course introduces fundamental theoretical concepts of developmental psychology as well as other aspects of development running parallel to the psychological development, including social, biological, and neurological concepts.   

Prerequisite: (Recommended) Introductory Psychology 

This course examines the conceptual engineering design process, emphasizing the real-world application and hands-on experience using machine elements. It will cover how machines work, including the fundamentals of relevant mechanical and electronics elements to realize autonomous mechanical and mechatronics systems.

This intermediate international relations course engages students to design prospective scenarios for emerging challenges that have an impact on the international system, organizing the information in a way that will facilitate international political decision-making processes and using forecasting tools. Prior knowledge is required of qualitative and quantitative research methods and historical analysis of the international system.

This seminar is divided into two parts exploring the relationship between literature, history, gender, and cultural representation from the early modern period to the present. The first part on revolution, utopia and gender examines utopian thought from Thomas More’s UTOPIA (1516) to the revolutionary era. Focusing on the English and French Revolutions, the course analyzes how utopian writing and political upheaval challenged—or reinforced—gender norms, women’s agency, and patriarchal structures. Through a range of texts by men and women, it assesses the emancipatory and oppressive dimensions of utopian imaginaries. The second part of the course focuses on contemporary film and television portrayals of Shakespeare and his circle from 1998-2025. From SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE to recent series and films, the course explores biofiction, authorship, historical imagination, and the place of Shakespeare in modern visual culture, in dialogue with major screen adaptations of his plays. Together, the course investigates how literature and media reimagine alternative social worlds and canonical figures across time. 

This course provides an introduction to the most commonly used methods for causal inference in the social sciences using observational data. It covers simple and multiple regression (particularly focusing on the conditions for a causal interpretation of the coefficients), matching, panel data, diff-in-diff, instrumental variables, regression discontinuity. The course prioritizes the practical understanding and application of the methods rather than their statistical foundations. Applications are selected from existing research literature.