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COMP SCI 6TE3 / Continuous Optimization 3 unit(s)
Staff
Antirequisite(s): COMP SCI 4TE3, SFWR 4TE3
Fundamental algorithms and general duality concepts of continuous optimization. Special attention will be paid to the applicability of the algorithms, their information requirements and computational costs. Practical engineering problems will illustrate the power of continuous optimization techniques.
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COMP SCI 6TI3 / Fundamentals of Image Processing 3 unit(s)
Staff (cross-listed as CSE 6TI3 )
Antirequisite(s): COMP SCI 4TI3
Discrete-time signals and systems, digital filter design, photons to pixels, linear filtering, edge detection non-linear filtering, multi-scale transforms, motion estimation.
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COMP SCI 6WW3 / Web Systems and Web Computing 3 unit(s)
Staff (cross-listed as eHealth *6WW3)
Antirequisite(s): COMP SCI 4WW3
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SFWR ENG 6GA3 / Real-Time Systems and Computer Game Applications 3 unit(s)
Staff
Antirequisite(s): SFWRENG 4GA3
Hard and soft real-time systems. Safety classification. Fail-safe design, hazard analysis. Discrete event systems. Modes. Requirements and design specifications. Tasks and scheduling. Clock synchronization. Date acquisition. Applications in real-time networking, quality of service and multimedia.
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SFWR ENG 6GC3 / Sensory Perception, Cognition and Human/Computer Interfaces for Game Design / 3 unit(s)
Staff
Antirequisite(s): SFWRENG 4GC3
Human sensory perception, learning and cognition. Game aesthetics. Precise control and feedback mechanisms. Use of music and sounds. Critical analysis of existing interfaces. Alternate input devices.
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SFWR ENG 6HC3 / The Human Computer Interface 3 unit(s)
Staff (cross-listed as eHealth *6D03)
Antirequisite(s): SFWRENG 4D03, COMP SCI 4HC3, SFWRENG 4HC3
A study of the principles of good interface design. Information overload problems and accommodating user mental models. Human input and technology insertion methods. Information and data visualization techniques. Modes and the mode awareness problem. Human factors and health issues, ergonomics. Interface design tools and Performance Support Systems.
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CULTR ST 705 / Music, Gender and Sexuality 3 unit(s)
S. Fast (cross-listed as GENDR ST 705 )
This course considers how gender and sexuality are constituted through music. A range of scholarly work that has laid the theoretical groundwork for the fields of feminist music studies, queer studies in music, and music and masculinities will be examined; case studies from across the spectrum of pop, jazz, “world” and classical music will also be taken up, both through readings and through recorded and live performances.
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CULTR ST 706 / Fugitive Lives: Documentary Form, Archival Work and the Demands of the Past 3 unit(s)
Cross-listed as ENGLISH 706
Through readings of literature, photography, scholarship, and archival documents, the course offers a practical and theoretical grounding in archival methodologies of research.
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CULTR ST 708 / Selfie/Culture 3 unit(s)
ENGLISH 708
A critical study of the uses of digital vernacular photography, especially selfies, informed by auto/biography studies, cultural theory, comparative decolonial and feminist studies, and visual and digital media studies.
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CULTR ST 711 / Celebrity/Culture 3 unit(s)
L. York (cross-listed as ENGLISH 711 )
This course engages the pervasive phenomenon of celebrity and poses questions about its operations in the field of culture. It will focus on influential theories of stardom and ideology, power, and cultural value that see celebrity operating variously within culture, and audiences, in turn, acting and signifying upon celebrity. Students will be encouraged to develop a framework for using a specific study of a celebrity or celebrity phenomenon to assess theoretical texts. This course will consider the workings of celebrity in academia.
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CULTR ST 713 / Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism in the Eighteenth Century 3 unit(s)
E. Zuroski Jenkins (cross-listed as ENGLISH 713 )
This course considers the role of cosmopolitanism in eighteenth-century British culture, particularly its relationship to the emergent discourses of modern nationalism and imperialism. How do authors of fiction and poetry use cosmopolitan figures to think about travel and exploration, diaspora and colonization, foreignness and exoticism, commerce, the global, the self, and the human?
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CULTR ST 716 / Bob Dylan and American Culture: Memory, Consciousness and Meaning 3 unit(s)
R. Monture (cross-listed as ENGLISH 716 )
Through a critical examination of selected songs, essays, and auto/biography, this course will assess the significance of Bob Dylan’s work within popular music and culture.
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CULTR ST 721 / Writing, Land, and Place 3 unit(s)
Cross-listed as ENGLISH 721
Different understandings of land and place are fundamental to the formation of settler colonial nations such as Canada. Whether land is seen as Creation, a commodity, a right, property, a sacred legacy, a network of interrelated life forms, geopolitical space, a “landscape,” parochial prison, or safe haven has a powerful effect on economics, aesthetics, social arrangements, spiritual practices, political formations, and, of course, ecological dynamics. This class will examine different historical and current ways of writing about land and place, attending to the ways these approaches shape our ways of living in them. It will also consider our own ways of writing about land and place.
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CULTR ST 722 / Activist Bodies in the Public Sphere 3 unit(s)
C. Graham
This course will explore theoretical approaches to understanding activist uses of the body to influence public opinion, with a concentration on notions of the public sphere, social body and performance as political action.
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CULTR ST 725 / Romanticism, War, and Peace 3 unit(s)
D. Clark (cross-listed as ENGLISH 725 )
This course explores the symptomatic presences of war and the auguries of a just peace in Romantic literature and culture.
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CULTR ST 726 / Race, Labour, and Migration in the Early Twentieth Century Transatlantic Imaginary 3 unit(s)
Nadine Attewell (cross-listed as )
Through readings of prose and visual texts from around the Atlantic, this course investigates issues of race and migration as these articulate with labour issues in the early-twentieth-century transatlantic imaginary.
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CULTR ST 729 / Cultural Studies and the Politics of Cultural Pedagogy 3 unit(s)
H. Giroux (cross-listed as ENGLISH 729 )
This course will examine the intersection of cultural studies and critical education in both the early and later work of a prominent number of cultural studies theorists and educational theorists. The course will examine the primacy of pedagogy in the early work of prominent cultural studies theorists such as Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall, and Paul Willis and how such work not only provided a way to make the political more pedagogical but also gestured towards connecting work in higher education with a broader set of social issues and public commitments.
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CULTR ST 730 / Indigenous Literature of North America 3 unit(s)
R. Monture (cross-listed as ENGLISH 730 )
An examination of indigenous literature in North America over the past two centuries, with particular emphasis on cultural traditions, literary representation, and writing as resistance.
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CULTR ST 731 / Anxiety Disorders: The Cultural Politics of Risk 3 unit(s)
S. O’Brien (cross-listed as ENGLISH 731 and GLOBALST 731 )
Through a variety of critical and imaginative works, this course will consider some political, cultural, affective, and environmental dimensions of contemporary “risk” society.
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CULTR ST 732 / Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory 3 unit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Department Permission
This course aims to familiarize students with key texts, concepts and methodologies in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory. Through the study of foundational and contemporary texts, students will gain an understanding of the conditions of Cultural Studies and Critical Theory’s historical emergence as modes of critical engagement, while analyzing the viability of different approaches within these fields to address contemporary constellations of domination, hegemony, identity, collectivity, and resistance. In addition to becoming familiar with the content and context of CSCT, students will also study and deploy a range of methodologies, which may include close reading, discourse analysis, genealogical critique and archival research.
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CULTR ST 733 / Problems in Cultural Studies 3 unit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Must be enrolled in CSCT MA program.
Drawing on foundational and contemporary readings, this course will employ insights from Cultural Studies and Critical Theory to understand and to intervene in contemporary problems. Readings and assignments will encourage students to analyze and develop connections between theory and politics in the form of art, activism, education and social policy.
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CULTR ST 734 / Appropriation and Canadian Literature: History, Theory, Controversies 3 unit(s)
Cross-listed as ENGLISH 734
This seminar examines the theory, history, and public discussions of cultural appropriation in the field of Canadian literature, with specific attention to the extent to which those discussions have evolved and persisted, in relation to race, ability, gender and other relations of power.
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CULTR ST 742 / Mapping South Asian Masculinities 3 unit(s)
C. Chakraborty (cross-listed as ENGLISH 742 )
This course focuses on masculinities in moments of conflict and crisis in South Asia to explore how masculinities are embedded in and enable the operation of large scale political-historical projects/processes such as colonial rule, nation-formation, construction of civil society and religious fundamentalism. Reading South Asian literary and cinematic texts, it will examine masculinities in articulated relation to other social categories: among them, caste, class, religion, ethnicity and sexuality.
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CULTR ST 747 / Discourses of Empire 1700-1820 3 unit(s)
P. Walmsley (cross-listed as ENGLISH 747 and GLOBALST 747 )
This course will consider how British and Colonial literatures articulated the process of forging a world empire. Our central project will be to map the shifting identities of self and other, and metropolis and colony, throughout the eighteenth century. We will read a wide range of texts-not only novels and poems representing imperial encounters, but also travel books and early slave narratives-and the course will provide ample opportunity for reference to McMaster’s rich collection of books and periodicals from this period.
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CULTR ST 749 / Getting and Spending: The Birth of Consumer Culture 3 unit(s)
P. Walmsley (cross-listed as ENGLISH 749 )
This course will consider how eighteenth-century British and Colonial literatures articulate the opportunities and the dangers of an emergent consumer culture, focusing on ideas of money, luxury, shopping and labour.
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CULTR ST 750 / Gothic, Sensation and Victorian Discourses of the Body 3 unit(s)
G. Kehler (cross-listed as ENGLISH 750 )
This three-unit course will explore the diversity in sensational and gothic treatments of bodies, bodies both literal and metaphoric, individual and collective, normative and “diseased.” In particular, Gothic and Sensation writing compulsively explores (figures of) physicality as a means to interrogate the legitimate or desired composition of family and nation.
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CULTR ST 754 / The Cultures of Modernism 3 unit(s)
N. Attewell
A critical examination of early twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, criticism, and ethnography. Explores the formal, generic, and thematic contours of modernist thinking about culture.
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CULTR ST 755 / Neoliberalism and the Limits of the Social 3 unit(s)
H. Giroux (cross-listed as ENGLISH 755 and )
This course will analyze the history, ideology, and cultural politics of neoliberalism and its impact on democracy and the demise of the social state. It will also critically engage the work of some of its major theorists and what the relevance of this work might be for constructing a new understanding of a publicly engaged notion of theory and social change.
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CULTR ST 756 / The Secret Life of Things in the Eighteenth Century 3 unit(s)
E. Zuroski Jenkins (cross-listed as ENGLISH 756 )
Considers emergent literary discourses about inanimate objects and non-human animals and their role in social life in eighteenth-century Great Britain, attending to the way writers identify and animate “things” in relation to persons and subjects, and vice versa. It will also introduce students to methodologies in the study of material culture in the context of literary and cultural studies.
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CULTR ST 757 / Gender, Civility, and Courtliness in Early Modern Europe 3 unit(s)
M. Gough (cross-listed as ENGLISH 757 )
This seminar studies early modern discourses of gender and proto-Orientalism in connection with emerging notions of civility at European courts, particularly those of England and France. How did class intersect with gendered, religious, and ethnic difference in the formation and contestation of early modern civility? In what ways was European civility inflected by emerging contacts with the Islamic world? What role did elite women’s cultural production play in practices of civility, defined as prowess in “arms” but also excellence in “letters,” including music, dance, poetry, plays, and masques?
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CULTR ST 758 / Literature as Witness 3 unit(s)
G. Kehler (cross-listed as ENGLISH 758 )
This course explores a selection of the theories of witnessing and trauma alongside of the witness literature of a diasporic, persecuted minority, the so-called Russian Mennonites, many of whom live on the Canadian prairies and who have become leading voices in Canadian and international literature.
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CULTR ST 759 / Victorian Natures 3 unit(s)
G. Kehler (cross-listed as ENGLISH 759 )
This course relies equally on Victorian texts and current criticism to investigate British successes and failures in coming to terms with “nature,” both theirs and others’.
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CULTR ST 761 / Framing CanLit 3 unit(s)
D. Coleman (cross-listed as ENGLISH 761 )
This seminar focuses on the interpretive frameworks we bring to our interpretations of Canadian texts by asking students to select specific critical or theoretical perspectives and explain why they are crucial or important for reading texts that have become canonical to “CanLit.”
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CULTR ST 762 / Queer Historicisms and British Cultural Memory 3 unit(s)
S. Brophy (cross-listed as ENGLISH 762 )
A critical examination of British queer film and fiction since the 1980s. Diverse approaches to representing the historical will be explored in light of queer theory and diaspora/postcolonial theory.
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CULTR ST 765 / Biopolitics: An Introduction 3 unit(s)
H. Giroux (cross-listed as and GLOBALST 765 )
This course will analyze how the concept of biopolitics is developed in the work of some of its major theorists and what the relevance of this work might be for constructing a new understanding of a publicly engaged notion of theory and social change.
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CULTR ST 767 / Regarding Animals: Theories of Non-Human Life 3 unit(s)
D. Clark (cross-listed as ENGLISH 767 )
This course explores the question of the otherness of non-human animals through a reading of twentieth- and twenty-first-century theory and philosophy.
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CULTR ST 769 / Science Fiction: Mindworlds and the Boundaries of the Human 3 unit(s)
A. Savage (cross-listed as ENGLISH 769 )
Speculative fiction explores the multiple ways in which boundaries are breached by imagination and science. This course examines dissolving or movable boundaries in a variety of fictions, sites, or technologies, including neuroscience, philosophy, virtual worlds, cybernetics, and intraspecies relations.
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CULTR ST 773 / “Revolt and Remember”: Resilience in the Postcolonial Environmental Humanities 3 unit(s)
(cross-listed as ENGLISH 773 )
This course will explore a range of literary, pop cultural and theoretical texts to analyze the contemporary currency of resilience. In addition to analyzing the neoliberal resonances of resilience, we will draw on literary, popular and activist uses of the concept explore its relevance to projects of decolonization, feminism and interspecies justice.
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CULTR ST 779 / The Times We Live In 3 unit(s)
S. O’Brien (cross-listed as ENGLISH 779 and GLOBALST 779 )
This course looks at changing conceptions of time in the late 20th/early 21st century in the context of globalization. We will survey a range of literary texts, films and social movements (e.g. Slow Food) that explore ideas about temporality, with a focus on the ways in which culture resists and/or supports such trends as acceleration, synchronization and the erosion of boundaries between private and public time.
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CULTR ST 781 / Public Mourning in Canada: What Makes a Life Grievable? 3 unit(s)
(cross-listed as ENGLISH 781 )
Beginning with a consideration of Judith Butler’s development of the concept of “grievability,” this course will explore the question of what makes a life widely grievable in the contemporary context of colonial Canada. Case studies will include public mourning in response to murdered or missing Indigenous women; the 1985 Air India bombing; police murders of Black men and the Black Lives Matter movement; and high-profile murders of queer and trans* or gender non- conforming subjects and responses such as Trans Day of Remembrance.
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CULTR ST 784 / Decolonizing Bodies 3 unit(s)
C. Chakraborty (Same as ENGLISH 784 and GLOBALST 784 )
An examination of the representations of the body in postcolonial literary and visual texts from Africa and South Asia.
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CULTR ST 785 / Migratory Routes: Indian Diasporic Fiction and Film 3 unit(s)
C. Chakraborty (cross-listed as ENGLISH 785 )
This course examines post-independence Indian diasporic fiction and film to understand the changing historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural contexts of migration.
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CULTR ST 789 / Studies in Asian North American Literature, Culture and Identity 3 unit(s)
D. Goellnicht (cross-listed as ENGLISH 789 )
This course examines selected topics (e.g. national versus transnational/diasporic subjectivities, gender formation) in Asian American and/or Asian Canadian literature and culture, with a focus on issues of identity. The specific topics will vary from year to year.
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CULTR ST 791 / Rethinking Politics: Thinking Past War, Democracy, and Terror 3 unit(s)
H. Giroux (cross-listed as ENGLISH 791 )
This seminar addresses how the notion of politics is being redefined within a changing global public sphere. How politics is addressed is central to matters of agency, social justice, as well as notions of individual and collective struggle. The course attempts to understand how politics is being addressed as a site of struggle through various deployments around race, globalization, education, and resistance.
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CULTR ST 793 / Oh Behave! Post-war Sexualities 3 unit(s)
S. Brophy (cross-listed as ENGLISH 793 )
A critical study of sexualities in British film, fiction, and culture of the 1950s and 60s. We will consider how key figures such as the teenager, the working woman, the single mother, the migrant, the homosexual, the servant, the playboy, and the secret agent mediated a rapidly transforming post-war social landscape.
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WOBORDER 701 / Field course 3 unit(s)
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WOBORDER 702 / Water Around the World 3 unit(s)
The purpose of this course is to address the issues of bridging science to policy, developing capacity, and trans disciplinary research at the water-health nexus. The content is primarily delivered through problem-based learning, which will examine real issues currently faced by the four thematic areas at UNU-INWEH (dry land ecosystems, coastal ecosystems, freshwater ecosystems and water-health nexus). Several seminars and panel debates will also be held. This course involves several oral presentations, regular blogging, and a significant amount of group work.
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WOBORDER 703 / Practicum 3 unit(s)
This course will provide additional practical experience through the individual re-submission of findings from WWB *702 in the format required to share those findings with different stakeholders. The purpose of this course is to provide students with skills in writing pieces of scientific work for different audiences and developing skills for knowledge transfer and translation. Students will be requested to submit a single paper in the genre provided, which could be, for example, an op-ed piece, policy brief, ministerial briefing note or NGO proposal. The course is self-directed, and must be completed between the end of Term III (at which point the findings from the *702 questions will be complete) and the end of the Summer term.
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ECON 6G03 / ECONOMETRICS 2 3 unit(s)
Prerequisite(s): Must be enrolled in MAEP program. Antirequisites ECON 4G03
Development of regression models appropriate to economics. Illustrations from applied micro- and macroeconomics.
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ECON 700 / Topics in Economics 3 unit(s)
Staff
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ECON 703 / Experimental Economics 3 unit(s)
S. Mestelman
An introduction to the design of laboratory environments in economics, to the conduct of laboratory sessions, and to the analysis of laboratory generated data. Applications to public economics, industrial organization, and the evaluation of economic theory are studied.
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ECON 710 / Population Economics I 3 unit(s)
B. Spencer, M. Grignon
A survey of topics in population economics, including the economic consequences of population aging, the economic theory of fertility, and the interrelations between economic and demographic phenomena generally.
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ECON 711 / Population Economics II 3 unit(s)
M. Grignon, B. Spencer
Prerequisite(s): ECON 710
An advanced course in population economics, open only to Ph.D. students choosing population economics as a field.
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ECON 716 / History of Economic Thought 3 unit(s)
R. Dimand
The development of economic analysis from its beginning through mercantilism through the classical school of political economy, Marx, marginalism, institutional economics, and Keynes to modern macroeconomics and microeconomics.
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ECON 721 / Microeconomic Theory I 3 unit(s)
M. Ivanov, S. Han
This course covers basic graduate-level microeconomic theory. It includes choice under uncertainty, general equilibrium, competitive market with adverse selection, and contract theory. Students are expected to be familiar with linear algebra, optimization technique, and basic real analysis.
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ECON 722 / Microeconomic Theory II 3 unit(s)
S. Han, M. Ivanov
Topics include the theory of public goods and externalities, non-cooperative game theory and the economics of information such as adverse selection, moral hazard, and mechanism design. Applications can include bargaining, monopoly and oligopoly pricing, insurance and employment contracts, and auctions.
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ECON 723 / Macroeconomic Theory I 3 unit(s)
A. Johri, M. Letendre, C. Sosa-Padilla
This course is an introduction to advanced macroeconomic theory which is based on dynamic optimization and general equilibrium. Applications will vary from year to year and may include economic fluctuations, economic growth, asset pricing, and fiscal policy.
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ECON 724 / Macroeconomic Theory II 3 unit(s)
A. Johri, M. Letendre, C. Sosa-Padilla
The course focuses on theories that help explain business cycle fluctuations and economic growth. Some additional topics will also be covered that change from year to year.
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ECON 727 / Microeconomic Theory for Public Policy 3 unit(s)
M. Veall
This course covers graduate-level microeconomic theory, but with an emphasis on how the tools of microeconomics can be used to inform public policy. Topics include theory of the household and the firm, decisions under uncertainty and over time, and an introduction to welfare economics.
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ECON 728 / Macroeconomic Theory for Public Policy 3 unit(s)
W. Scarth
This course takes a public economics approach to macroeconomics, stressing both efficiency and equity dimensions of each policy issue. The three modules focus on short-run stabilization problems, structural unemployment and income inequality, and long-run growth in living standards. Usually all three modules are included, but in some years more in depth treatment is given to just two modules.
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ECON 731 / Public Finance 3 unit(s)
K. Cuff
Prerequisite(s): ECON 733
Topics may include positive and normative theories of taxation, the provision of public goods, collective decision-making, the theory of local public goods, and issues in fiscal federalism including tax and expenditure competition and inter-governmental transfers.
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ECON 733 / Topics in Public Economics 3 unit(s)
K. Cuff, A. Payne
Topics may include: capital taxation; economic theory of redistribution; empirical assessment of the effects of taxation and government expenditure; and the measurement of welfare, poverty and inequality.
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ECON 735 / Economics of Public Sector Policies 3 unit(s)
Staff
This course will study a current topic or theme in Public Economics. State of the art research will be surveyed with an emphasis on the policy relevance of research. Possible themes include: politicians v. bureaucrats in the provision of public goods, the effects of government policy on the provision of education, the alleviation of racial segregation through government policy, the relationship between federal and local governments.
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ECON 736 / Environmental and Resource Economics 3 unit(s)
S. Mestelman, A. Muller
The course covers selected issues in the management of natural resources and the environment. Possible topics include the theory of externalities and policy instruments for remedying the associated market failure, management of renewable and non-renewable common property resources, contingent valuation, ecological indicators and the measurement of natural resource and environmental variables in the national accounts.
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ECON 741 / Monetary Economics 3 unit(s)
A. Johri
This course is devoted to the discussion of some key issues in monetary theory and policy. It does not assume prior knowledge of dynamic optimization techniques. Topics that use modern macroeconomic methods will be discussed at the end of the semester.
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ECON 742 / Topics in Money and Macroeconomics 3 unit(s)
A. Johri, M. Letendre
Prerequisite(s): ECON 724
The course covers stochastic dynamic general equilibrium models in different fields of macroeconomics. Topics may include business cycle theory, numerical methods, open-economy models (real and monetary), heterogenous-agent models, asset pricing and growth theory.
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ECON 751 / International Trade, Development and Investment 3 unit(s)
S. Demidova, P. Pujolas
The neoclassical or real theory of international trade is presented in a general equilibrium format using geometrical and mathematical methods. A central application of these methods is to the trade problems of developing countries. Topics therefore may include North-South trade, export-led growth, commercial policy, elective protection, foreign investment, integration, savings, financial development and income distribution.
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ECON 752 / International Finance 3 unit(s)
M. Letendre
This course examines international real and monetary business cycle models to explain economic fluctuations of main macroeconomic variables within and across countries. The course also covers empirical evidence and theories of sovereign debt and default.
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ECON 753 / Topics in International Economics
S. Demidova, P. Pujolas, C. Sosa-Padilla
This course builds on the material in ECON 751 . The course covers advanced topics in international trade, such as the welfare gains from trade, productivity and international trade, and border effects.
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ECON 761 / Econometrics I 3 unit(s)
M. Veall, A. Sweetman
Topics include linear regression and generalized least squares.
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ECON 762 / Econometrics II 3 unit(s)
M. Veall
Topics include time series and robust variance estimation.
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ECON 765 / Mathematical Methods 3 unit(s)
S, Han, M. Letendre
This course provides a systematic review of mathematical and statistical methods commonly used in economic modeling.
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ECON 766 / Quantitative Methods and Systems in Economic Analysis 3 unit(s)
L. Grigolon
Prerequisite(s): Must have completed ECON 761 or have permission of the instructor.
The course covers microeconometrics research techniques and practical applications of microeconomics. It discusses a series of fundamental estimation methods in the microeconometric literature, along with working code. Topics include numerical optimization, discrete choice models, and dynamic choice on a finite and infinite horizon.
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ECON 768 / Advanced Econometrics 3 unit(s)
J. Racine, L. Grigolon, S. Yamaguchi
This course builds on the material in ECON 761 and ECON 762 . Topics may include: nonparametric estimation, robust estimation, asymptotictheory, econometric programming.
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ECON 769 / Applied Microeconometrics 3 unit(s)
P. Contoyannis
This course is designed to introduce students to methods for the analysis of microeconomic data, with a particular focus on the use of survey datasets used in applied micro-econometric research. Following an introduction to micro-econometrics and issues in the analysis of survey data, we will discuss models, regression, and causality and the use of instrumental variables. We then consider methods for linear panel data models, both including and excluding dynamics, and models for binary, ordered and count variables. At the end of the course students should be able to develop their own micro-econometric analysis and interpret related studies.
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ECON 770 / Use of Secondary Data Analyses to Examine Social Determinants of Health 3 unit(s)
M. Boyle, K. Georgiades (cross-listed as Geog *770, , HTH RS M 790 )
This course will provide students with applied secondary data analyses skills to address research questions linked to the social determinants of health across the lifespan. The course will include: 1) a substantive focus on the emergent concepts, methods, frameworks and evidence for examining the role of social factors in shaping health inequalities; and 2) a methodological focus on the use of secondary data analyses to address questions linked to the social determinants of health. Students will be asked to develop and address a research question using secondary data available to the course instructors. Working collaboratively, students will complete an empirical research paper with the purpose of submitting to a peer-reviewed journal by the end of the course.
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ECON 773 / Economic Policy Analysis I 3 unit(s)
P. DeCicca, A. Payne,
This course is the first semester of the two-semester sequence that will provide a grounding in policy processes, policy issues, and important institutional structures, in relevant policy sectors in Canada, and provide an introduction to the basic research designs appropriate for establishing causal relationships through program/policy evaluation.
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ECON 774 / Economic Policy Analysis II 3 unit(s)
P. DeCicca, A. Payne
This course is the second semester in the two-semester sequence in Economic Policy Analysis. It will survey more advanced issues in policy evaluation and culminate in a major policy project.
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ECON 781 / Labour Economics I 3 unit(s)
S. Jones, S. Yamaguchi
A survey of basic labour economics. Topics include labour demand, labour supply, and the determination of equilibrium wages in competitive markets. Sources of wage differentials in competitive markets, such as human capital investment and compensating differentials, are examined, as are the effects on labour markets of government policies such as minimum wages, immigration restrictions, occupational health and safety regulations, and subsidies to education.
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ECON 782 / Labour Economics II 3 unit(s)
S. Jones, S. Yamaguchi
Prerequisite(s): ECON 781
This course surveys state-of-the-art research in labour economics. Recently covered topics include asymmetric information models of strikes; estimation of duration models; recent trends in wage structure, firm size, unionization, and self employment; the impact of international competition and technological change on labour markets; and modeling dynamic family labour supply decisions.
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ECON 784 / Industrial Organization 3 unit(s)
L. Grigolon
This course examines the strategic interactions of firms in markets, and their implications for firms’ profits and consumer welfare. The course provides analytical concepts for analyzing firm behavior in different market structures. The course has two main goals: (i) introduce micro-economic and game-theoretic tools to understand competition and market power; (ii) develop an active understanding of econometric analysis of market power and competition. Both goals are illustrated with applications to competition policy and competitive strategy. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to develop and actively understand econometric analysis of market power and competition.
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ECON 785 / Economics of Human Resource Policies 3 unit(s)
Staff
This course will study a current topic or theme in Human Resource Economics. State-of-the-art research will be surveyed, with an emphasis on the policy relevance of research. Possible themes include: the design of social insurance systems for unemployment, disability, or retirement; policies to foster human capital formation; methods for evaluating labour market interventions; the human resource policy implications of globalization, technological change, or aging populations.
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ECON 788 / Health Economics 3 unit(s)
J. Hurley, P. Contoyannis (cross-listed as HTH RS M 788 )
This is a basic graduate survey course on the economics of health and health care. Topics include the organization, financing and utilization of health care services. Both theory and evidence relating to patterns of consumer and provider behaviour are examined, as are the functioning and regulation of “markets” for health services. Major public policy issues in the provision of health care in Canada are identified and the economic aspects of such issues are considered in detail.
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ECON 791 / Advanced Topics in Health Economics 3 unit(s)
P. Contoyannis, J. Hurley, A. Sweetman, J. Tarride, E. Tompa, D. Feeny (cross-listed as HTH RS M 791 )
Prerequisite(s): ECON 788
This course focuses on issues relating to the economics of health and health care. It builds on ECON 788 and exposes students to more advanced topics and aspects of recent research in health economics. The specific topics presented depend on the instructors for each offering. Recent topics have included methods of economic evaluation and health technology assessment, the economics of work and health, the evaluation of health-care related interventions, advances in the empirical analysis of income and health inequalities, health human resources, and the evolution of health from childhood to adulthood.
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ECON 793 / Health Economic Policy 3 unit(s)
P. DeCicca, P. Grootendorst
This course will study specific topics or theme areas of health economics. State-of-the-art research will be surveyed, with an emphasis on the policy relevance of research. Possible topics include the economics of health, health care financing, health care funding, the economics of the pharmaceutical sector, health and aging, and labour market experiences and health.
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ECON 795 / Analysis of Health Data 3 unit(s)
P. Contoyannis
This course is designed to introduce students to methods for the analysis of health data, with a particular focus on the use of survey datasets used in health-related micro-econometric research. Investigating features of health data requires the recognition of and methodology to cope with several characteristics not regularly (and rarely simultaneously) encountered in other areas. During the course, we will focus on the use of cross-sectional and longitudinal observational data to estimate causal parameters of interest and test hypotheses relevant to the econometric analysis of health data. At the end of the course, students should be able to perform their own econometric analyses of health data, and interpret and evaluate related studies.
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ECON 796 / Economics Co-op Work Term I
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ECON 797 / Economics Co-op Work Term II
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ECON 798 / Workshop in Economics I 3 unit(s)
Staff
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ECON 799 / Workshop in Economics II 3 unit(s)
Staff
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BUSINESS 725 / Business Process Reengineering 3 unit(s)
A. Montazemi (same as Business *K725)
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EHEALTH 701 / Research and Evaluation Methods in eHealth 3 unit(s)
A. McKibbon
This course will provide background and basic principles of research and evaluation methods for eHealth students. Students will study research/evaluation methods on eHealth applications as well as research/evaluation using eHealth applications. The course is given online using synchronous and asynchronous methods. Evaluation is based on participation in discussion forums, 2 written assignments, and a final project in the form of a research proposal or contract proposal to address a Request for Proposal from industry and a multimedia presentation of the final project.
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EHEALTH 705 / Statistics for eHealth 3 unit(s)
Staff
Prerequisite(s): Enrolment in the MSc eHealth program or permission of the instructor
Antirequisite(s): HRM 701
This course covers basic statistical concepts and techniques as they apply to the analysis and presentation of data in eHealth practice. The statistical software package SPSS will be used extensively. The course includes graphical presentation of data, elementary probability, descriptive statistics, and probability distributions. Statistical inferencing techniques, including statistical decision theory, confidence intervals, hypothesis tests (z-tests, t-tests, and nonparametric methods), ANOVA, contingency tables, chi-square tests, correlation, and simple and multiple regression. Students will analyze data gathered from eHealth studies and will review examples drawn from published eHealth research.
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EHEALTH 712 / An Introduction to Patient Safety 3 unit(s)
David Musson
This course provides an overview of current concepts in patient safety and healthcare systems safety as well as a foundation in the basic sciences as applied to patient safety. Topics addressed include theoretical models of safety, high reliability, safety culture, human factors engineering and usability, human cognition and its role in human error, incident reporting and analysis, medication error, the role of electronic medical records and computerized order entry in reducing error in healthcare settings, team-based error and methods to improve team function including simulation. Students will gain a foundation and a cross sectional awareness of the field, and will gain the ability to apply patient safety principles in their work.
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EHEALTH 724 / Fundamentals of eHealth and the Canadian Health Care System 3 unit(s)
A. McKibbon (same as HTH RS M 724 )
Prerequisite(s): One-day orientation to the Canadian health care system for students (non-health background) completed before the course starts.
This tutorial-based course will cover a broad range of eHealth topics from the perspective of health care delivery. Topics include a definition of eHealth; health care data; hospital and primary care information systems (i.e. electronic health records [EHR] systems); specialty components of an EHR system; how health professionals use data; human/cognitive factors in development and implementation of eHealth applications; patient safety; standards, vocabulary and nomenclatures and how used; aggregation of health information, especially for research purposes; patient information systems and consumer eHealth; and research and evaluation of eHealth applications and research using eHealth applications.
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EHEALTH 745 / eHealth Innovations and Trends
Prerequisite(s): Registration in the M.Sc. eHealth program or permission of the instructor.
This course reviews and discusses critical issues related to innovations in eHealth, including: the drivers for these innovations, the trends that are developing in the eHealth field, notable successes and failures of eHealth to meet promised expectations, and what might be done to improve the potential of eHealth as a positive force for improvement in healthcare systems. Cases will be used extensively to illustrate eHealth innovations being discussed, and students will be required to participate fully in discussions. Students may participate synchronously either virtually online or physically in class. Participation online requires a headset to avoid audio interference with other participants.
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EHEALTH 746 / Healthcare Analytics 3 unit(s)
Prerequisite(s): EHEALTH 705 or permission of the instructor
Healthcare analytics is the systematic use of data and related business insights developed through applied analytical disciplines (statistical, contextual, quantitative, predictive, cognitive, and other models) to drive fact-based decision making for planning, management, measurement and learning in healthcare. This course describes health analytics principles and techniques from the practitioner point of view. It reviews critical issues related to this rapidly expanding field, including case discussions and student projects in applying healthcare analytics tools to support the use of real healthcare data in effective decision making.
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EHEALTH 757 / Modern Software Technology for eHealth 3 unit(s)
Staff (same as CAS 757 )
This course exposes graduate students to technical challenges in the field of electronic health (eHealth). The course introduces a collection of modern architectures and technologies that are recommended by standardization organizations to build the infrastructure that meets the emerging demands in the growing network of health care systems. The topics include: standard health care and data and service representations; clinical terminology systems; web services and service oriented architecture; decision support systems; data mining techniques on clinical data; data and knowledge interoperability; security and privacy techniques, and health care application development environments.
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EHEALTH 767 / Information Privacy and Security 3 unit(s)
(cross-listed as CAS 767 )
This course covers issues and technologies in Information Privacy, Security, and Accountability. The course surveys cryptography, digital signature, key management, authentication, certificates, PKI, Application layer Access control policies and mechanisms, data forensics, Internet security protocols, trust management, information and web privacy, privacy and data aggregation, audit log mechanisms, privacy policy expression and enforcement, Differential Privacy, Security and privacy in healthcare, Social networking security and privacy, Usable security and privacy, and privacy-enhancing technologies. Students will undertake a project that employs and integrates these technologies.
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BIOMED 712 / Matrix Computations in Signal Processing 3 unit(s)
(cross-listed as ECE 712 )
Matrix decompositions: eigen-decomposition, QR decomposition, singular value decomposition; solution to systems of equations: Gaussian elimination, Toeplitz systems; least square methods: ordinary, generalized and total least squares, principal component analysis.
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