McGill University

This course explores the cultural dynamics of medieval Iberia and the various societies present in the Iberian Peninsula. This course covers important works of the period from Poema de Mio Cid to La Celestina. It discusses texts from Arab, Jewish, Catalan, and Galician-Portuguese sources in English translation. Castilian sources are available in Spanish and English. Class discussions are conducted in Spanish.

Students enrolled in this physics course complete a scientific research project supervised by a faculty member from the physics or other similar department. Students are responsible for finding a supervisor and a project before applying to register for the course. All projects must be approved as suitable by the course instructor and respective supervisor. Students establish a base research schedule with their supervisor, consisting of the equivalent of nine hours of work per week and weekly meetings between the student and supervisor. Students explore or build something new for their research projects, present the results to class, and write a concise report.

This course offers a cross-curricular, interdisciplinary approach to teaching and creating learning experiences for students. The course fosters critical thinking and nurtures lifelong global understanding, active engagement, and participation in relation to questions of social, economic, and environmental justice.

The course explores the role of financial accounting in the reporting of the financial performance of a business. The course introduces principles, components, and uses of financial accounting and reporting from a user's perspective, including the recording of accounting transactions and events, the examination of the elements of financial statements, the preparation of financial statements, and the analysis of financial results.

Buddhism has been central to Tibetan culture and identity since the 7th century. This course introduces key aspects of the history and practices of Tibetan Buddhism including early history, political and sectarian developments, the spread of Tibetan Buddhism outside of Tibet, and the myth of “Shangri-La.”

This course examines some of the major theories of personality including those of Freud, Rogers, and Bandura. It discusses empirical research inspired by those theories. topics include: nature of human motivation; role of the self-concept; consistency and stability of personality.

This course is designed for students who have learned basic Japanese grammar, and have acquired a strong command of Hiragana and Katakana. This course is also for students who can speak and understand Japanese but have never studied Japanese language officially. It is a bridge-course between first level and second level Japanese language courses. Students develop a solid base of knowledge for Japanese through writing practice, in preparation for a smooth transition to the second level Japanese language course. Students write about familiar topics and experiences in a series of sentences using the first-level grammar and Kanji reviewed in the class, and read and write about 160 Kanji.

This course is an introduction to the anthropological study of religion. Throughout the semester, students consider, and reconsider, the answers that a broad range of anthropologists and other social scientists have given to the question of what religion does and how it can be studied. The course utilizes three primary activities: learning how a variety of anthropologists study religion through readings, and lectures; analyzing anthropological concepts and their relevance through in-class activities; and reflecting, in written exams, on the consequences of different approaches to and aspects of the study of religion. Although this is not a comparative religion course, students review aspects of a variety of religions including Islam, Protestant Christianity, Witchcraft, Hinduism, Voodoo, and Judaism.