World Views

Statement of the Competency: to think critically about world views. Students who successfully complete the WORLD VIEWS course in Humanities should be able to:

  • Analyze the elements and historical development of world views
  • Explain the major ideas, values and implications of a world view
  • Organize and synthesize elements of a world view into a coherent pattern
  • Conduct a reasoned and critical comparison of world views

The WORLD VIEWS course introduces students to the idea of using conceptual frameworks for understanding, from culturally and historically diverse standpoints, how the world is structured, functions and develops. Students are encouraged to increase their awareness and understanding of different views of humanity and its place in the world.

Please note that not all the courses listed below are offered every term:

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
345-102-MQ A Conservative World View?  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Art, Film and Media Witnessing  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Bad Attitudes: An Introduction to Pessimism and Skepticism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Classic Ideas Revisited Through the Contemporary Lens  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Creative Resistance and Social Change  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Crime and Punishment  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Cultural Identity and Cultural Rights  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Diversity in Women's Movements  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Early Childhood Education  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Encountering the Other  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Enlightened Consciousness  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Folklore and Fairytale  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Honour  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Imagining the Future  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Introduction to Ideologies  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Introduction to Political Ideologies  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice 2 (Journeys)  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Justice, Development and Change  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Medieval Civilization  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Money  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Nietzsche and Dostoevsky  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Perspectives on Love  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Philosophy of Sex  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Political Ideologies  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Political World Views  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Problems in Modern Political Thought  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Public Stories: Journalism, Democracy and The Media  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Remember the Humans?: Science Fiction and Post-human Possibilities  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Signifying Nothing: Pessimism and the Tragic World View  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Death of Homo Economicus  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Enlightenment and Romanticism  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Flavor of Reasons  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ The Unseen World: Magic in Ritual, Fairy Tale and Fantasy  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Understanding Culture Through Artworks and Artifacts  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Violence and Nonviolence  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Visions, Rebellions and Elections: Religion and Politics  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Weird, Wonderful and Persuasive: The World Views of Western Philosophers  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ World Views of Indigenous Peoples  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ World Views with New School  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews in 1968  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews of Southeast Asia  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews of the Ancients  3 - 0 - 3 45 
345-102-MQ Worldviews on Diseases  3 - 0 - 3 45 
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Last Modified: July 28, 2014