English Course> Atlanta Christian College
ENG 207 Medieval and Modern World Literature (3)
Reading and discussion of important works of world literature from the beginning of the Middle Ages
to the present, with emphasis on the philosophical, political, and religious thought of the writers.
Prerequisite: ENG 102.
Course Title Credit Area
SOAN 384 The Family in World Perspective 3 Social Science
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Marketing (MKTG) 466
Marketing Research (Revision 2)
View previous syllabus.
Delivery mode: Individualized study online or
grouped study.**
Credits: 3 - Applied Studies
Prerequisite: MKTG 396, or an equivalent introductory marketing course.
Centre: School of Business
MKTG 466 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
In today’s rapidly changing world, obtaining high-quality information about the current marketing environment may determine the success or failure of a business. Research marketers use a variety of methods to collect information about consumers and the marketplace. This information is used to help businesses make effective decisions about what features to include in new or existing products, how to price their goods or services, and where and how to target their products.
MKTG 466 identifies different sources of marketing research data, examines processes for collecting and analyzing research data, and shows how to prepare and present marketing research reports.
Outline
Lesson 1: The Role of Marketing Research in Strategic Planning
Lesson 2: The Research Process
Lesson 3: Problem Definition, Research Objectives, and Marketing Research Ethics
Lesson 4: Strategic Information Management: Secondary Data Sources
Lesson 5: Customer Relationship Management and the Marketing Research Process
Lesson 6: Marketing Research and Database Development
Lesson 7: Marketing Decision Support Systems and Business Intelligence
Lesson 8: Exploratory Designs: In-Depth Interviews and Focus Groups
Lesson 9: Descriptive Research Designs: Survey Methods and Errors
Lesson 10: Observation Techniques, Experiments, and Test Markets
Lesson 11: Sampling: Theory, Designs and Issues in Marketing Research
Lesson 12: Overview of Measurement: Construct Development and Scale Measurement
Lesson 13: Attitude Scale Measurements Used in Survey Research
Lesson 14: Questionnaire Design and Issues
Lesson 15: Coding, Editing, and Preparing Data for Analysis
Lesson 16: Data Analysis: Testing for Significant Differences
Lesson 17: Data Analysis: Testing for Association
Lesson 18: Data Analysis: Multivariate Techniques in the Research Process
Lesson 19: Preparing the Marketing Research Report and Presentation
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Legal Studies (LGST) 369
Commercial Law (Revision 6)
Opened in Moodle January 18, 2008.
Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Applied Studies
Prerequisite: None.
Centre: Centre for State and Legal Studies
LGST 369 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
LGST 369 is designed to provide students with practical legal knowledge that will be useful to them in the world of business. The focus of the course is risk management. In other words, after students have completed this course, they will be able to make business decisions that will reduce the likelihood of legal liability. Students will become aware of how legal problems might be prevented, and when issues arise which require the professional advice of a lawyer. The material will therefore emphasize the application of legal principles in real life business situations. This course should enable students to participate in managerial decisions of a business without fear of breaching the law, and to recognize problems and situations in the management of a business that require legal counsel.
Outline
Part 1: The Legal System
Unit 1: Law and the Legal System
Part 2: Contracts
Unit 2: Forming Contracts
Unit 3: Contractual Defects
Unit 4: The End of the Contractual Relationship
Unit 5: Specialized Contracts
Part 3: Tort and Employment Law
Unit 6: Tort Law: Negligence and Professional Liability
Unit 7: Tort Law: Business Operations or Business Premises
Unit 8: Employment Law
Part 4 : Optional Units*
Unit 9: Legal Vehicles for Conducting Business
Unit 10: Financing Business Pursuits
Unit 11: Real Property
Unit 12: Emerging Issues in Business Law
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Labour Studies (LBST) 470
Pre-Industrial Origins of Labour and Socialist Thought (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study.
Credits: 3 - Reading course - Social Science
Prerequisite: None. It is strongly recommended that students have credit in either LBST 200 or a university level history course. LBST 470 is designated primarily intended for students in the last stage of a BA major in Labour Studies or History.
Precluded course: LBST 470 is a cross-listed course—a course listed under 2 different disciplines—HIST 470. LBST 470 cannot be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for HIST 470 or HIST 400.
Centre: Centre for Global and Social Analysis
LBST 470 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
LBST 470 is an advanced level course designed for students who wish to begin an in-depth study of the history of socialist thought and the goals and fortunes of the European labour movement before the twentieth century. The course surveys the development of radical social thinking from its origins in the ancient world to the era of the French Revolution.
Among the topics treated in the course are the beginnings of socialist thought in ancient Israel and ancient Greece, Christian social thought under the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages, Renaissance utopianism, the contribution of the Reformation to religious communitarianism, the ideas of the radical wing of anti-monarchist forces in the English Revolution, the ideology of the eighteenth-century British labourer and of the sans-culottes in the French Revolution, and the development of English Radicalism from Spence to Hall.
Outline
Unit 1: The Old Testament Prophets
Unit 2: Social Thought in Ancient Greece
Unit 3: Communalism and Social Ethics in Early Christianity
Unit 4: Religious Communism in the Middle Ages
Unit 5: Langland and the Peasants Revolt
Unit 6: Thomas More and Renaissance Utopianism
Unit 7: The Radical Reformation
Unit 8: Republicans, Levellers, and Diggers in the English Revolution
Unit 9: Work, Poverty, Labourers and Artisans in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Unit 10: Rousseau and Enlightenment Socialism
Unit 11: The Social Thought of the French Revolutionaries
Unit 12: English Radicalism: Spence to Hall
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Indigenous Studies (INST) 430
Indigenous Governance (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None. INST 203 and/or INST 205, and INST 377, are strongly recommended before taking INST 430.
Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research
INST 430 is not available for challenge.
Overview
Indigenous Studies 430: Indigenous Governance is designed to lead students through the concepts they will need in order to gain a full understanding of the complex issues Indigenous peoples face with respect to governance.
The course is divided into three broad sections. Part 1 introduces Indigenous conceptualizations of such things as land, leadership, citizenship, decision making and relationships with other nations. Part 2 provides a historical and contemporary discussion of the impact of the Indian Act on Indigenous nations and governance, including a discussion of Indigenous resistance and response. Part 3 surveys various responses to Indian Act governance, from the proposals of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP), through discussions of self-government, self-administration, self-determination, and treaty federalism, to Indigenous visions of contemporary governance based on traditional values, knowledge and processes.
Outline
Part 1: Precolonial Understandings
Unit 1: The Foundations of Indigenous Political Culture
Unit 2: Indigenous Worldviews, Values, and Traditional Philosophies of Governance
Unit 3: Indigenous Governance in Precolonial and Contemporary Times
Unit 4: The Responsibilities of Women in Indigenous Governance
Part 2: Indian Act Governance
Unit 5: Indigenous Nations and the State: Colonization, Colonialism and Indigenous Response
Unit 6: The Indian Act
Part 3: Responses to the Indian Act
Unit 7: Treaties and Treaty Federalism
Unit 8: Federal Policy on Aboriginal Governance
Unit 9: Indigenous Visions of Governance: Decolonizing and Anticolonial Strategies
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Indigenous Studies (INST) 377
Topics in Aboriginal Governments (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research
INST 377 is not available for challenge.
Overview
This is a three-credit senior-level course that explores topics that relate to Aboriginal governments in Canada. This course is divided into three sections. Part 1 looks at traditional Aboriginal governance systems before the arrival of Europeans. Part 2 looks at the impact of colonialism on Aboriginal governments, and Part 3 describes some of the contemporary Aboriginal government structures that are emerging today.
Most of the topics in this course are explained through a general survey format, supplemented by specific examples, and explored in greater depth through detailed case studies. Like most Indigenous Studies courses, the sources for INST 377 are interdisciplinary. They include academic articles and books by Indigenous and non Indigenous authors, Aboriginal oral histories, legal decisions, policy papers, and other sources. The approach of this course is to assume that emerging Aboriginal governments will be most successful where they are based on the traditional governments of the past, and incorporate traditional philosophies and laws in a modern context.
Outline
Unit 1: Traditional Aboriginal Governments
Part 1: Traditional Laws and the Natural Environment
Part 2: Political Traditions and Philosophies of Aboriginal Governance
Part 3: Treaty Making Traditions
Unit 2: Impact of Colonialism on Aboriginal Governments
Part 1: Colonialism and the Canadian Judiciary
Part 2: Conflicts Between Indigenous and Canadian Law
Part 3: Colonialism, Power and Leadership
Unit 3: Emerging Indigenous Government Structures
Part 1: The Constitution Question
Part 2: Indigenous Governance and Modern Treaties
Part 3: Towards Implementing Aboriginal Governance
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Indigenous Studies (INST) 358
Aboriginal Women in Canada (Revision 1)
Delivery mode: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research
INST 358 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
This course examines the roles of women in traditional, pre-contact Aboriginal societies, the changes facing this group of women as a consequence of colonization, and contemporary issues of concern for Aboriginal women in Canada. While the course deals with Aboriginal women in Canada, particular emphasis will be on Western and Northern Canadian contexts and experiences and the women of those territories wherever the existing resources and materials permit. The course has been designed thematically and chronologically in order for patterns of experience to emerge and become evident. Throughout this course, the terms ‘Indian’, Inuit and ‘Metis’ will be used as they are the terms used in the Constitution Act (1982) to identify Aboriginal peoples of Canada and because these terms reflect historical usage. In the context of this course they are applied exclusive of the derogatory context which has sometimes arisen as a result of cultural misconceptions.
Outline
Indigenous Studies 358 is divided into 10 units each with its own readings and study questions as outlined throughout the course outline.
Unit 1: Introduction to Theoretical Concepts
Unit 2: Traditional Roles of Aboriginal Women: Oral Traditions
Unit 3: Traditional Roles of Aboriginal Women: Recent Scholarship
Unit 4: The Historical Fur Trade, ca. 1700-1850
Unit 5: The Colonial Impact, ca. 1850-1920
Unit 6: The Colonial Impact, ca. 1920-1960
Unit 7: Challenges to Colonialism, ca. 1960-1985
Unit 8: Violence and Aboriginal Women in the Late Twentieth Century
Unit 9: Reawakening Strength and Resistance
Unit 10: Survival, Strength and Healing through Literature and Artistic Expression
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Indigenous Studies (INST) 357
Contemporary Aboriginal Issues in Canada
Delivery mode: Grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Precluded course: INST 357 may not be taken for credit if credit has already been obtained for NTST 357.
Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research
INST 357 has a Challenge for Credit option.
Overview
INST 357 explores selected contemporary social, economic, and political issues surrounding the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. The course examines five main themes: 1) historical background related to the traditional Aboriginal, social, economic, and political institutions; 2) Canadian federal government “Indian Policy of Assimilation” based on the BNA and the Indian Act; 3) self-government as perceived by Aboriginal peoples; 4) fiscal arrangement and the delivery of programs and services in indigenous communities; and 5) the implementation of the federal and provincial governments’ policy of economic development in Aboriginal communities.
Outline
Unit 1: An Historical Background: Traditional Indigenous Social, Economic, Political, and Religious Institutions
Unit 2: Canada’s “Indian Policy” based on the BNA and Indian Act
Unit 3: The Concept of Indigenous Government
Unit 4: The Federal and Provincial Governments’ Program and Service Delivery Practices
Unit 5: Economic Development Process in Aboriginal Communities
Undergraduate Course> Athabasca University
Indigenous Studies (INST) 348
Aboriginal Justice (Revision 1)
Delivery mode:: Individualized study or grouped study.
Credits: 3 - Social Science
Prerequisite: None.
Centre: Centre for World Indigenous Knowledge and Research
INST 348 is not available for challenge.
Overview
Indigenous Studies 348: Aboriginal Justice discusses the impact of the Canadian criminal justice system on Aboriginal people and communities, and the efforts Aboriginal people are making to regain control over the administration of justice. It has long been recognized that Aboriginal people make up a disproportionately large segment of the prison population in Canada. In this course, we discuss the reasons for this “over – representation,” and some of the strategies Aboriginal nations and communities are developing to address it.
Outline
Unit 1: Aboriginal Peoples’ Over- representation in the Criminal Justice System
Unit 2: Canadian Justice
Unit 3: Aboriginal People and the Police
Unit 4: Gendered Differences
Unit 5: Racism and the Criminal Justice System
Unit 6: The Sentencing of Aboriginal People
Unit 7: Sentencing Alternatives
Unit 8: Improving the Canadian Criminal Justice System
Unit 9: Justice as Self-determination