Topics in pension mathematics; funding methods for pension plans. (Offered in alternate years)
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ACT470H1 - Advanced Pension Mathematics
ACT471H1 - Topics in Casualty Actuarial Science
This course will cover current topics relevant to industry participants. Topics may include advanced modeling, pricing for different lines of business, financial conditions, regulatory impacts and current developments. Students will develop an understanding of key topics driving the industry today and some of the framework of reference used by actuarial practitioners for charting a course in areas of uncertainties.
(Offered in alternate years)
Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT473H1 - Issues In Actuarial Practice
Case study approach to current issues in life insurance, pension consulting and casualty actuarial practice. The focus of the course will be on communication and presentation. This course is Pass/Fail. Not eligible for Credit/No Credit. The course is open to students in the specialist program in actuarial science. Students in the major program in actuarial science can enrol into the course with permission of the department.
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT475H1 - Insurance Products and Regulation with AXIS
Case studies using leading actuarial application AXIS. Examine key types of insurance products and their pricing and valuation. Review representative developments in insurance regulations in US, Europe and Canada. Other topics include a brief introduction of the use of AI in life insurance.
Corequisite: ACT348H1
Distribution Requirements: Science
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT496H1 - Readings in Actuarial Science
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT497H1 - Readings in Actuarial Science
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT498Y1 - Readings in Actuarial Science
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
ACT499Y1 - Readings in Actuarial Science
Independent study under the direction of a faculty member. Persons wishing to take this course must have the permission of the Undergraduate Secretary and of the prospective supervisor. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.
Breadth Requirements: The Physical and Mathematical Universes (5)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR150Y1 - Introduction to African Studies
Hours: 48L/24T
A multi-disciplinary study of Africa, emphasizing inquiry and critical analysis. Pre-colonial, colonial and contemporary African history, anthropology, politics, African humanism and society, religion, art, music, race, resistance, gender and Pan-Africanism.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR250Y1 - Africa in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities
Hours: 48L
A critical examination of Africa as a living space rather than merely a site of intellectual speculation and study. Uses scholarly and popular literature to explore the issues that engage the attention of ordinary Africans, ranging from the dramatic to the seemingly trivial, as they struggle to fashion meaningful lives in fast-changing societies. Topics include urban transition and city life; economic, political and cultural impacts of globalization; new religious movements and changing conceptions of selfhood; new African diasporas in the West; dynamics of gender relations, kinships and identities; and the politics of liberalization. Materials studied will include print and electronic news media and other mass media resources from Africa and across the world.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR280Y1 - Introductory Swahili
Hours: 24L/72T
Introduction to grammar and basic vocabulary of Swahili. Emphasis on comprehension and oral practice. Reading of selected texts. Relation of the language to its East African cultural context.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR290H1 - The Idea of Africa
An historical examination of Africa as a conceptual category, exploring discourses and representations - both African and non-African - that have produced our understandings of the meanings of Africa and Africanness.
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR322H1 - The Contemporary African Novel
Hours: 24S
Novels written in the last forty years by English, French and Portuguese-speaking Africans. Ideological views concerning colonialism and neo-colonialism. Tradition, religious and secular; the use of African symbolism. A small number of historical and sociological texts are recommended as essential background reading. Works not written in English are read in translation. (Offered in alternate years)
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR351Y1 - African Systems of Thought
Hours: 48L
The exploration of a range of African cosmologies, epistemologies, and theologies, as well as specific case studies on justice, the moral order, and gender relations. The influence of these richly diverse traditions is traced as well in the writings of African thinkers in the Diaspora.
Recommended Preparation: AFR150Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3), Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR352H1 - International Organizations, NGOs, Development and Change in Africa
Hours: 24L
Critically explores the role of international organizations such as the World Bank Group, the UN and NGOs in the economic development of Africa.
Exclusion: NEW352H1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR353H1 - International Relations of Africa
Hours: 24L
Explores inter-state relations in Africa, African states’ relations with the West, China, India, Brazil, and international political, economic and financial institutions.
Exclusion: NEW353H1, POLC80H3
Distribution Requirements: Humanities, Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR354H1 - African Cultures and Development
Hours: 24L
Critically examines scholarly debates on the relationships between African cultures and development in various regions of the continent. Draws on interdisciplinary scholarship and development discourses to enhance students' understanding of African conditions and cultures in the context of development thinking.
Exclusion: NEW354H1, NEW358H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: Culture and Development in Postcolonial Africa), offered in Winter 2015, Winter 2016, Fall 2016, Fall 2017, Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR355H1 - African Youth Languages and Cultures
Hours: 24L
Examines the nature of youth languages and cultures in contemporary Africa with a focus on their characteristics and the conditions under which they develop. Also considers similarities and/or differences between youth languages and cultures in different regions of Africa and the general youth condition. Includes urban youth languages such as Sheng, Engsh, Tsotsitaal, etc. and music genres associated with youth such as hip hop, Bongo flava, etc. Discusses challenges and opportunities associated with African youth languages as they relate to questions of identity, national integration, regional integration, and development.
Exclusion: NEW355H1, NEW358H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: African Youth Languages and Cultures), offered in Winter 2018
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR357H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
AFR358H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
AFR359H1 - The Horn of Africa - Critical Perspectives
Hours: 24L
Examines the Horn of Africa, its diversity, geopolitics, cultural politics, present conditions and current debates through a critical and comparative lens. Considers social forces in contemporary politics within the region including competing claims, explanations of the underpinnings of the Horn's conflict, and the promise of peace. Draws upon interdisciplinary scholarship, public discourse, texts and media to reflect on the future of the Horn of Africa at this historical moment.
Exclusion: NEW359H1, NEW357H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: The Horn of Africa: Critical Perspectives) offered in Fall 2018, Fall 2019
Recommended Preparation: AFR150Y1/ AFR250Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR365H1 - Art, Media and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora
Explores the critical intersections between art, media and politics by analyzing the making and circulation of various indigenous and modern art forms and their use as creative and radical strategies for creative expression, dissent, citizenship, and alternative forms of representation, reimaginings, transcendence and agency in African post-colonial contexts, and interconnected with the African Diaspora.
Exclusion: NEW357H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: Art, Media and Politics in Africa and the African Diaspora), offered in Winter 2019 and Fall 2019
Recommended Preparation: AFR150Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR370H1 - Anticolonialism, Radicalism and Revolutions in Africa
An interdisciplinary exploration of the histories of nationalist and revolutionary movements, ideologies, and regimes in twentieth and twenty-first century Africa, examining the various ways that Africans imagined, actively shaped, and continue to demand freedom and political modernity. Emphasis will be placed on African history methodology (including oral history) and historiography to encourage students to apply a historical lens to approaching key themes and concepts in African Studies such as nationalism, decolonization, the state, politics, citizenship, labour movements, and pro-democracy movements.
Recommended Preparation: AFR150Y1/ HIS295Y1/ HIS297Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR380Y1 - Intermediate Swahili
Hours: 24L/72T
Grammar and syntax. Conversation and written composition. Reading of texts: literary, journalistic. Relation of the language to its East African context.
Exclusion: NEW380Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR389H1 - The Geopolitics and Debates on Africa-China Economic Relations
Explores the geopolitics of Africa-Asia relations, in particular, the unabated and polarized debates and narratives on China’s engagement across sectors in Africa, ‘Africa-China’ multifaceted trade relations, strategies and interests, and economic diplomacy. Critically examines the changing landscape of economic cooperation and development financing in contemporary Africa, their underlying impulses and their broader implications.
Exclusion: NEW357H1/ AFR357H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: The Geopolitics and Debates on Africa-China Economic Relations), offered in Fall 2020 and Fall 2021
Recommended Preparation: AFR150Y1/ AFR250Y1/ AFR353H1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR450Y1 - African Studies Honours Research Seminar
Hours: 24S
This honours research seminar required of all specialists and majors in African Studies offers critical explorations of the genealogy of African Studies, the transnational study of Africa, Africa’s place in a globalized world, the historical, intellectual and institutional contexts of Africanist knowledge production, its dissemination and consumption in Africa, Europe, the Americas and emerging academic sites in Asia. It engages with the paradigm shifts and vibrant scholarly and epistemic debates across disciplines and geographies as well as unfolding events, public discourses, geopolitics, African popular cultures and the reimagining of African futures through canonical, emergent scholarship and creative media and emphasizes students’ original and creative research explorations, engaged praxis and search for alternative theorizing and decolonial epistemologies.
Exclusion: NEW450Y1
Distribution Requirements: Social Science
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR451H1 - Special Topics in African Studies
AFR453H1 - Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
Hours: 24S
Examines the choice of languages for education in East Africa using critical perspectives. Pays particular attention to the influences of the historical experience of colonialism, the socio-linguistic contours of each country and the strength of linguistic and educational lobby groups in East African countries.
Exclusion: AFR453Y1, NEW453H1, NEW453Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR453Y1 - Language and Postcolonial Education in East Africa
Hours: 48S
Examines the choice of languages for education in East Africa using critical perspectives. Pays particular attention to the influences of the historical experience of colonialism, the socio-linguistic contours of each country and the strength of linguistic and educational lobby groups in East African countries.
Exclusion: AFR453H1, NEW453H1, NEW453Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1), Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class
AFR454H1 - Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa
Hours: 24S
Why do people move voluntarily or involuntarily? What are the causes and consequences of migration and displacement in Africa? This course critically examines the multifaceted dimensions of migration, mobility, and displacement, with a specific focus on communities and populations displaced by war, environmental destruction and disaster, economic failings, and the quest for economic opportunities, love, education, or individual freedom.
Exclusion: NEW454H1, NEW451H1 (Special Topics in African Studies: Migration, Mobility, and Displacement in Contemporary Africa), offered in Fall 2016
Recommended Preparation: JQR360H1/ AFR351Y1
Distribution Requirements: Humanities
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)
Mode of Delivery: In Class