Course Descriptions

Students will attain a basic knowledge of cognition as it applies to learning. They will learn to apply their knowledge of strategies, skills, and attitude through active monitoring of their own lifestyle, decision-making, and self-regulation in an effort to improve upon their overall academic success and view of learning.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed fewer than 60 credit units.
Note: In Arts and Science programs, INTS 100 may only be used toward the Electives Requirement. Students with credit for PSY 101 will not receive credit for this course.

This course provides beginning undergraduate students with a core set of essential skills and academic strategies to bring their personal strengths forward for success in science and related professional programs. Key topics which will be explored through a combination of lecture and experiential learning include the nature of science, methods of discovery and communication in science, methods of teaching and evaluation used in the sciences, writing for the sciences, and forms of reasoning and argumentation (including mathematics) that are foundational to scientific literacy.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): Students must have completed fewer than 60 credit units including not more than 15 credit units from ACB, ASTR, BIOC, BIOL, BMSC, CHEM, CMPT, EP, GEOL, MATH, MCIM, PHPY, PHYS, STAT, TOX, or any GEOG courses that have been identified as “Science Program Type” courses.
Note: INTS 102 is complementary to INTS 100: Strategies for Academic Success, with limited overlap in content.

The purpose of this course is to help students become stronger writers. To the end of sculpting effective essays, the course will teach students the principles of good reading; essay structure; editing and revision; and the effective use of rhetoric. The course proceeds upon the premise that clear writing is rooted in sound grammar, and that even analysis cannot properly proceed without this basis. For this reason, the course will necessarily include instruction in grammar.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Note: Students are encouraged to take this course in their first year to maximize the opportunity to increase success in later courses. However, it may be taken to fulfill elective requirements at any time. This course may not be used to fulfill Humanities program requirements.

This team-taught, foundational course highlights ways of knowing across multiple disciplines in the fine arts, humanities, sciences, and social sciences. It asks students to think about how a particular theme or subject is considered, theorized, and addressed by and across various academic disciplines in the College of Arts and Science. The course helps students to learn about a wide variety of perspectives in understanding the world; identify differences between disciplines; understand that disciplines are tools for exploration; and build community across departments and disciplinary approaches. At least one unit of the course focuses on Indigenous perspectives, and the course is writing intensive.

Weekly hours: 2 Lecture hours and 1 Seminar/Discussion hours
Restriction(s): INTS 110.3 is intended as a first or second-year Arts & Science course. In order to register, students must be registered in the College of Arts & Science and have successfully completed no more than 60 university credit units.

We live in a designed world. From the clothes we wear, to the books we read and the phones we use, to the homes we live in and the public spaces we visit, most aspects of our built environment have been “designed” for us. This interdisciplinary team taught class will start by dismantling the notion that the practice of design is simply about making something look good and then move on to an examination of how professionals from a wide range of disciplines use design principles to achieve goals ranging from making a better widget to building a better world.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

What is peace? What is justice? What are the causes that lead to violent conflict, what strategies can bring violent conflict to an end, and what conditions promote human flourishing? This course introduces students to the various ways scholars and activists define peace and the challenges they face in securing peace. The course surveys the major causes of direct and structural violence; the various definitions of “peace” and the conditions under which it is achieved and sustained; and the comparative success of various strategies to promote nonviolent social change. Because peace studies is an interdisciplinary field, the course will draw widely on sources from the humanities and social sciences. And because peace studies is a praxis-oriented field, students will also be asked to reflect on both applications of theory to current global and local events as well as on their own practices of community engagement.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours

This community service-learning (CSL) course introduces students to local community issues and organizations, exploring concepts related to community involvement in Saskatoon and beyond. The course combines traditional in-class learning with experiential, hands-on learning in the community. Practical experiences in the community will serve to expand students' academic knowledge of community involvement, and vice versa. Students will spend two hours per week in the classroom and will be placed with a local community-based organization for an additional two hours per week, except during Reading Week in February, when they will participate in Alternative Reading Week activities. In lieu of a final exam, students will have the opportunity to work with University and community partners on a community project. This course is applicable to many disciplines and fields of study, and students will be encouraged to make links between their own academic interests and the course material.

Weekly hours: 2 Seminar/Discussion hours and 2 Practicum/Lab hours
Prerequisite(s): 30 credit units completed at the University of Saskatchewan.
Note: Students with credit for INCC 201 will not receive credit for this course. This course may be used in the General or Elective requirement for Arts & Science programs.

This course offers a multidisciplinary introduction to Ukraine, its history, culture, and peoples from historical, cultural, political and anthropological perspectives. Along with an overview of major developments in Ukrainian history, culture and nation building, the course also focuses on the outcomes and meanings of these developments to contemporary Ukrainians, their neighbors, and the Ukrainian diaspora. Topics include — the rise and fall of Kyivan Rus and Galicia-Volhynia, the Polish and Lithuanian rule, the Cossack Era, the birth and decline of Hetmanate, the impact of Russian and Austrian Imperial rule on Ukraine, the growth of national consciousness in the 19th century, the first World War and the quest for independence, industrialization and collectivization in Soviet Ukraine in the 1920-30s, the famine of 1932-33, Stalin’s repressions of 1930s, Western Ukraine between the Wars, Ukraine during the Second World War, Soviet Ukraine in the 1950-1980s, and independent Ukraine in a global context.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 15 credit units of university studies.

This course will explore what it means to be human, and to become humane, by drawing from a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. It will provide an intellectual framework for understanding interconnections between the personal and the group on both a local and global level in relation to social, cultural, economic, and ecological issues. This course gives attention to an increasing awareness of the challenges associated with intercultural relations, fostering respect for diversity, and the dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.

Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours
Prerequisite(s): 18 credit units at university level or permission of the instructor.
Note: The course may only be used toward the Electives Requirements in Arts and Science programs. Students with credit for INTS 200.6 may not take this course for credit.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

The internship in librarianship and information studies is intended to introduce undergraduates to professional librarianship, with an emphasis on an academic library setting. The work experience focuses on central elements of librarianship in the University Library and is balanced with study of the roles of libraries in current information and academic environments. The course includes weekly seminars, assignments, and 70 hours of site work in the University Library.

Prerequisite(s): 60 credit units of university courses and permission from the instructor.
Note: Students with credit for INCC 380 may not take this course for credit.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

This course is meant as a capstone for students completing a Minor in Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good. Students will be engaged in a critical inquiry into current conditions of social life to inspire their participation in equitable and sustainable alternatives for our common social good. Core categories include cycles of exclusion, rural/urban justice, ecojustice and globalization.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours
Prerequisite(s): 36 credit units of completed university study including INTS 203.3.

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours

Offered occasionally by visiting faculty and in other special situations to cover, in depth, topics that are not thoroughly covered in regularly offered courses.

Weekly hours: 3 Seminar/Discussion hours