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Undergraduate Course Descriptions

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Course Descriptions and Course Notes

Courses - Undergraduate

Course information in the Undergraduate Calendar is updated after each Senate Undergraduate Council meeting. The official up-to-date course information, including requisites, appears in Quest and the Undergraduate Calendar.

See understanding course description listings for explanations about each part of a course listing.

Don't meet the requisites? Many academic units are open to the possibility for students outside the academic unit and/or faculty to take their courses. If students are interested in taking a course that has a prerequisite they do not meet, they should discuss the possibility of taking the course with the instructor or the academic unit offering the course.

Owner Key

Owner Code Owner Description
ART Arts
ENG Engineering
ENV Environment
HEA
Health
MAT Mathematics
REN Renison University College (Social Work)
SCI Science
VPA Interdisciplinary Studies (Vice-President, Academic)

Course Table

  • To link to courses without scrolling, click on the applicable alphabetic letter below.
    A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
  • For individual course notes or series, click on the applicable Note or Series by course.
Course Subject Subject Code Owner Notes 00 Series 100 Series 200 Series 300 Series 400 Series 500 Series

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Accounting & Financial Management AFM ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s
Actuarial Science ACTSC  MAT
  100s 200s 300s 400s  
American Sign Language ASL ART     100s 200s      
Anthropology ANTH  ART     100s 200s 300s 400s  
Applied Language Studies APPLS  ART       200s 300s    
Applied Mathematics AMATH MAT       200s 300s 400s  
Arabic
ARABIC ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
Architectural Engineering
AE ENG
  100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Architecture ARCH  ENG Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Arts ARTS  ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s
Arts and Business ARBUS  ART 100s 200s 300s 400s  
Aviation AVIA  VPA 100s 200s 300s 400s

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Biology BIOL SCI 100s 200s 300s 400s
Biomedical Engineering BME ENG Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Black Studies BLKST ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s
Bridge to Academic Success in English BASE REN
00s          
Business (Wilfrid Laurier University) BUS  WLU Notes
Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology BET  ENG 100s 200s  300s 400s 500s

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Canadian Studies CDNST ART 100s 200s
Chemical Engineering CHE ENG Notes
100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Chemistry CHEM SCI 100s 200s 300s 400s
Chinese CHINA ART Notes
100s 200s 300s 400s
Church Music and Worship CMW ART

200s 300s

Civil Engineering CIVE ENG

100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Classical Studies CLAS ART Notes
100s 200s 300s 400s
Cognitive Science COGSCI ART 300s
Combinatorics and Optimization CO MAT

200s 300s 400s
Commerce COMM MAT 100s 200s 300s 400s
Communication Studies COMMST ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
Computer Science CS MAT Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Computing and Financial Management CFM VPA 100s 300s 400s
Co-operative Work Term COOP  VPA 00s
Croatian CROAT ART Notes 100s 200s
Cultural Identities CI ART 100s 200s 300s 400s

D

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Digital Arts Communication DAC ART
200s 300s 400s
Dutch DUTCH ART Notes   100s 200s

E

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Earth Sciences EARTH SCI
100s 200s 300s 400s  
East Asian Studies EASIA  ART Notes 100s 200s 300s
Economics ECON ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Electrical and Computer Engineering ECE ENG Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
English ENGL ART Notes
100s 200s 300s 400s
English for Multilingual Speakers EMLS REN 100s

Environment ENVS ENV 100s 200s 300s 400s
Environment and Business ENBUS ENV
100s 200s 300s 400s
Environment, Resources and Sustainability ERS ENV 100s 200s 300s 400s
Environmental Engineering ENVE ENG 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s

F

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Fine Arts FINE  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
French Studies/Études Françaises FR  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  

G

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Gender and Social Justice
GSJ ART  
100s 200s 300s 400s
General Engineering GENE  ENG   00s 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Geography and Environmental Management GEOG ENV 100s 200s 300s 400s
Geological Engineering GEOE ENG 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
German GER ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Gerontology GERON HEA
200s 300s 400s
Global Business and Digital Arts GBDA ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Greek GRK ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s

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Health HEALTH HEA 100s 300s 400s
Health Humanities HHUM ART 100s 200s 300s
History HIST ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Human Resources Management HRM ART Notes 200s 300s 400s
Human Rights HRTS ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Human Sciences HUMSC ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s

I

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Indigenous Entrepreneurship INDENT ART
200s 300s
Indigenous Studies INDG ART
100s 200s 300s
International Development INDEV ENV
00s 100s 200s 300s 400s
International Studies INTST ART
100s
Italian ITAL ART Notes 100s 200s 300s
Italian Studies ITALST ART Notes 100s 200s 300s

J

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Japanese JAPAN  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s
Jewish Studies JS ART

200s 300s 400s

K

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Kinesiology KIN HEA

100s 200s 300s 400s
Knowledge Integration INTEG ENV 00s 100s 200s 300s 400s
Korean KOREA ART Notes 100s 200s 300s

L

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Latin LAT  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s
Legal Studies LS ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s

M

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Management MGMT ART 100s 200s 300s
Management Sciences MSCI ENG 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Materials and Nano-Sciences MNS SCI 00s 100s 200s 300s 400s
Mathematical Business MATBUS MAT 300s 400s
Mathematics MATH MAT 00s 100s 200s
Mathematics Electives MTHEL MAT 00s 100s 200s 300s 400s
Mechanical Engineering ME ENG Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Mechatronics Engineering MTE ENG Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s 500s
Medieval Studies MEDVL ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Mennonite Studies MENN ART 100s 300s
Mohawk MOHAWK ART 100s
Music MUSIC ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s

N

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Nanotechnology Engineering NE ENG 100s 200s 300s 400s

O

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Optometry OPTOM SCI 100s 200s 300s 400s

P

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Peace and Conflict Studies PACS ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Pharmacy PHARM SCI 100s 200s 300s 400s
Philosophy PHIL ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Physics PHYS SCI 00s 100s 200s 300s 400s
Planning PLAN ENV 100s 200s 300s 400s
Political Science PSCI ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Portuguese PORT ART Notes 100s
Professional Development PD VPA Notes 00s
Professional Development for Architecture Students PDARCH ENG 00s
Professional Development for Pharmacy Students PDPHRM  SCI    00s 
Psychology PSYCH ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s
Public Health Sciences HLTH HEA
100s 200s 300s 400s
Pure Mathematics PMATH MAT 300s 400s

R

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Recreation and Leisure Studies REC HEA
100s 200s 300s 400s
Religious Studies RS ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Russian RUSS ART Notes 100s
Russian and East European Studies REES ART Notes 100s 200s 300s

S

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Science SCI SCI 200s 300s
Science and Business SCBUS SCI 100s 200s 300s 400s
Sexuality, Marriage, and Family Studies SMF ART Notes 100s 200s 300s 400s
Social Development Studies SDS ART 100s 200s 300s 400s
Social Work (Social Development Studies) SOCWK ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s
Social Work (Bachelor of Social Work) SWREN  REN Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
Society, Technology and Values STV  VPA     100s 200s 300s 400s  
Sociology SOC  ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s  
Software Engineering SE  VPA Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
Spanish SPAN  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  
Statistics STAT  MAT       200s 300s 400s  
Studies in Islam SI  ART
  100s 200s 300s 400s  
Sustainability and Financial Management SFM VPA     100s 200s 300s 400s  
Systems Design Engineering SYDE  ENG Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s 500s

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Theatre and Performance
THPERF ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  

U

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University UNIV VPA     100s         

V

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Visual Culture  VCULT  ART Notes   100s 200s 300s 400s  

W

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Work-term Report WKRPT  VPA Notes 00s 100s 200s 300s 400s

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