Innis College


Faculty List

Associate Professors, Teaching Stream
C. Messenger, MA
D.J. Roberts, PhD
A.L. Williams, PhD

Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
D. Adleman, PhD
S. English, MA
A. Mehta, PhD

Introduction

Innis College offers courses that sustain two interdisciplinary academic programs: Urban Studies (designated URB) and Writing and Rhetoric (designated WRR). Innis College is also the home of the Cinema Studies Institute, which offers an impressive collection of courses (designated CIN) listed separately under Cinema Studies Institute. Courses for the Innis One Program have been inspired by the College's two academic programs and its special relationship with the Cinema Studies Institute.

Innis One: The Creative City

Innis One: The Creative City is a first-year foundations program for students who wish to develop their creative and critical capacities by exploring the dynamism of our urban environment. Drawing from the College’s two academic programs — Urban Studies and Writing and Rhetoric — and its special relationship with the Cinema Studies Institute, Innis One coaxes students to venture beyond the academy walls and engage in an imaginative, inquiry-based, and civic-minded learning experience.

In a small-class setting, students will be encouraged to bring their own experience, passions and history into relationship with the civic issues and landscapes of Toronto, thus gaining a greater appreciation of the interplay between personally driven writing, film, and urban life. Seminars featuring guest lecturers, films and special field trips offer a unique experiential learning opportunity that will also help students to develop writing, research, and analytical skills.

All first-year students in the Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George campus) are eligible for admission. Further information is available at innis.utoronto.ca/academics/about-innis-one/.

Enquiries: 
Email programs.innis@utoronto.ca.

Urban Studies

Urban Studies at Innis College provides students with the tools to make sense of their urban world. The Program examines the complex and dynamic relations among institutions, people, and physical form that create, sustain, or destroy cities.

The Program is suited for those students who wish to study cities using several disciplinary approaches. It is also of interest to those students who wish to become involved in urban issues in Toronto. The Program offers an internship in the office of either a municipal politician, non-profit research group, or other government organization as part of its experiential learning program. Because urban issues are so varied, Urban Studies combines well with many other program areas. Students are advised to consult the Program Director when designing programs that meet their particular interests. The Program encourages students to take advantage of the Study Elsewhere Program at the University of Toronto to broaden their knowledge of cities.

Enquiries: 
Email programs.innis@utoronto.ca. Also see the Urban Studies website at https://urban.innis.utoronto.ca/.

Writing and Rhetoric

Innis College’s Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric offers a diverse array of courses that explore the worlds of oral, written, and online discourse.

Writing and rhetoric go hand in hand. In an increasingly digital world, where the variety and sheer number of texts are rapidly proliferating, the ability to produce persuasive and eloquent writing, as well as analyze and interpret texts, couldn’t be more foundational. Guiding our program is the premise that students must be equipped to engage both theoretically and practically with the multimedial world of discourse.

Rhetoric, one of the oldest disciplines in the humanities, is fundamentally concerned with how persuasion circulates in society: what transpires in texts necessarily reflects, deflects, and impacts what happens outside of them. The study of rhetoric includes analyzing the circulation of influence, identities, seductions, ideologies, narratives, tropes, ideas, compromises, and effects across a wide variety of contexts: for example, digital media environments (digital rhetoric), marketing campaigns (advertising rhetoric), medical and scientific settings (rhetoric of science and technology), and the contemporary world of political activity and activism (rhetoric of social change—including feminist rhetoric, rhetoric of race, and environmental rhetoric).

Writing, one of the most important rhetorical skills that anyone can develop, is an invaluable craft both in academic programs and beyond the university. Rhetors—those who can adapt their language to audience and context and use language skillfully—exert a powerful influence in almost any setting. Our writing courses teach students how to write well in the modes, genres, and styles appropriate to particular disciplinary, institutional, and creative contexts. Each course is oriented towards the specialized writing, reading, research, and editing skills involved in a specific writing genre.

Enquiries:
Email programs.innis@utoronto.ca. Also see the Writing and Rhetoric website at https://writingprogram.innis.utoronto.ca/.

Innis College Programs

Urban Studies Specialist (Arts Program) - ASSPE2207

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average in required courses is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

For students with 4.0 to 8.5 credits:

2.0 credits from two of the following groups:

For students with 9.0 or more credits:

URB235H1 (formerly INI235H1) and URB236H1 (formerly INI236H1), and:

2.0 credits from two of the following groups:

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a combined grade average lower than 70% in the required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.

Students are invited to inquire with the program office about possible appropriate substitutions for the courses above.

Completion Requirements:

(11.0 credits including at least 4.0 credits at the 300+ level, 1.0 of which must be at the 400-level)

First Year:

1. Two of the following selections:

Higher Years:

2. URB235H1 and URB236H1

3. 1.0 credit from URB342H1/​ ECO220Y1/​ GGR270H1/​ GGR271H1/​ POL222H1/​ POL232H1/​ SOC202H1/​ SOC252H1

4. 2.0 credits in URB or JGU courses at the 300-level or above, including at least 1.0 credit at the 400-level.

5. 5.0 credits in at least three of the following groups, including at least 2.0 credits at the 300-level or above.

Urban Studies:
Any URB or JGU courses not already taken to fulfill requirement 4.

Economics:
ECO305H1/​ ECO310H1/​ ECO313H1/​ ECO314H1/​ ECO316H1/​ ECO320H1/​ ECO322H1/​ ECO324H1/​ ECO332H1/​ ECO333H1/​ ECO334H1/​ ECO336H1/​ ECO338H1/​ ECO339H1/​ ECO340H1/​ ECO341H1/​ ECO342H1/​ ECO362H1/​ ECO364H1/​ ECO372H1/​ ECO401H1/​ IRE339H1

Geography:
GGR217H1/​ GGR221H1/​ GGR240H1/​ GGR241H1/​ GGR246H1/​ GGR252H1/​ GGR254H1/​ GGR320H1/​ GGR323H1/​ GGR326H1/​ GGR327H1/​ GGR328H1/​ GGR329H1/​ GGR336H1/​ GGR339H1/​ GGR342H1/​ GGR343H1/​ GGR349H1/​ GGR352H1/​ GGR354H1/​ GGR357H1/​ GGR359H1/​ GGR360H1/​ GGR374H1/​ GGR424H1/​ GGR431H1/​ GGR438H1/​ GGR456H1/​ GGR457H1/​ GGR458H1/​ GGR460H1/​ GGR482H1

History:
HIS220Y1/​ HIS222H1/​ HIS230H1/​ HIS241H1/​ HIS242H1/​ HIS243H1/​ HIS244H1/​ HIS250Y1/​ HIS251Y1/​ HIS262H1/​ HIS265Y1/​ HIS266H1/​ HIS271Y1/​ HIS280Y1/​ HIS282Y1/​ HIS292H1/​ HIS297Y1/​ HIS312H1/​ HIS314H1/​ HIS316H1/​ HIS317H1/​ HIS318H1/​ HIS327H1/​ HIS328H1/​ HIS360H1/​ HIS365H1/​ HIS366H1/​ HIS369H1/​ HIS378H1/​ JHA394H1/​ HIS396H1/​ HIS418H1/​ HIS421H1/​ HIS435H1/​ HIS479H1/​ HIS482H1/​ HIS484H1

Political Science & Public Policy:
JPF455H1/​ JPF456H1/​ POL201H1 (formerly POL201Y1)/ POL214H1 (formerly POL214Y1)/ POL316H1 (formerly POL316Y1)/ POL317H1/​ POL349H1/​ POL361H1/​ POL362H1/​ POL413H1/​ POL438H1/​ POL443H1/​ POL447H1/​ POL464H1/​ POL467H1/​ PPG301H1

Sociology:
SOC205H1/​ SOC207H1/​ SOC208H1/​ SOC210H1/​ SOC214H1/​ SOC220H1/​ SOC243H1/​ SOC246H1/​ SOC249H1/​ SOC260H1/​ SOC280H1/​ SOC282H1/​ SOC303H1/​ SOC304H1/​ SOC306H1/​ SOC308H1/​ SOC309H1/​ SOC311H1/​ SOC312H1/​ SOC325H1/​ SOC335H1/​ SOC339H1/​ SOC356H1/​ SOC360H1/​ SOC363H1/​ SOC364H1/​ SOC365H1/​ SOC366H1/​ SOC367H1/​ SOC372H1/​ SOC383H1/​ SOC478H1/​ SOC486H1

Environment:
ENV200H1/​ ENV221H1/​ ENV222H1/​ ENV307H1/​ ENV320H1/​ ENV335H1/​ ENV350H1/​ ENV422H1/​ GGR223H1/​ GGR314H1/​ GGR334H1/​ GGR347H1/​ GGR348H1/​ GGR416H1/​ GGR419H1/​ JGE331H1

Other:
AFR250Y1/​ ANT200Y1/​ ANT318H1/​ ANT347H1/​ ANT450H1/​ CDN268H1/​ CDN325H1/​ CDN335H1/​ CDN367H1/​ CDN385H1/​ DTS310H1/​ DTS414H1/​ FAH207H1/​ FAH215H1/​ FAH230H1/​ FAH265H1/​ FAH273H1/​ FAH303H1/​ FAH308H1/​ FAH309H1/​ FAH325H1/​ FAH331H1/​ FAH354H1/​ FAH371H1/​ FAH376H1/​ FAH415H1/​ FAH421H1/​ HST305H1/​ HST330H1/​ INS403H1/​ JQR360H1/​ JUG325H1/​ LIN451H1/​ RLG308H1/​ RLG309H1/​ SLA318H1

ARC253H1/​ ARC331Y0/​ VIS327Y0/​ ARC354H1/​ ARC355H1/​ ARC357H1/​ ARC367H1/​ ARC383H1/​ VIS406H1/​ ARC453H1/​ ARC467H1 (For ARC/VIS courses, please see Daniels Calendar)

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with Innis College's Urban Studies program will have the new "URB" designator. Joint JGI courses will also see their designator changed to "JGU."

Urban Studies Major (Arts Program) - ASMAJ2207

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average in required courses is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

For students with 4.0 to 8.5 credits:

2.0 credits from two of the following groups:

For students with 9.0 or more credits:

URB235H1 (formerly INI235H1) and URB236H1 (formerly INI236H1), and:

2.0 credits from two of the following groups:

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a combined grade average lower than 70% in the required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.

Students are invited to inquire with the program office about possible appropriate substitutions for the courses above.

Completion Requirements:

(7.0 credits including at least 2.0 credits at the 300+ level, 0.5 of which must be at the 400-level)

First Year:

1. Two of the following selections:

Higher Years:

2. URB235H1 and URB236H1

3. 1.5 credits in URB or JGU courses at the 300-level or above, including at least 0.5 credit at the 400-level.

4. 2.5 credits in at least two of the following groups, including at least 0.5 credit at the 300-level or above

Urban Studies:
Any URB or JGU courses not already taken to fulfill requirement 3.

Economics:
ECO305H1/​ ECO310H1/​ ECO313H1/​ ECO314H1/​ ECO316H1/​ ECO320H1/​ ECO322H1/​ ECO324H1/​ ECO332H1/​ ECO333H1/​ ECO334H1/​ ECO336H1/​ ECO338H1/​ ECO339H1/​ ECO340H1/​ ECO341H1/​ ECO342H1/​ ECO362H1/​ ECO364H1/​ ECO372H1/​ ECO401H1/​ IRE339H1

Geography:
GGR217H1/​ GGR221H1/​ GGR240H1/​ GGR241H1/​ GGR246H1/​ GGR252H1/​ GGR254H1/​ GGR320H1/​ GGR323H1/​ GGR326H1/​ GGR327H1/​ GGR328H1/​ GGR329H1/​ GGR336H1/​ GGR339H1/​ GGR342H1/​ GGR343H1/​ GGR349H1/​ GGR352H1/​ GGR354H1/​ GGR357H1/​ GGR359H1/​ GGR360H1/​ GGR374H1/​ GGR424H1/​ GGR431H1/​ GGR438H1/​ GGR456H1/​ GGR457H1/​ GGR458H1/​ GGR460H1/​ GGR482H1

History:
HIS220Y1/​ HIS222H1/​ HIS230H1/​ HIS241H1/​ HIS242H1/​ HIS243H1/​ HIS244H1/​ HIS250Y1/​ HIS251Y1/​ HIS262H1/​ HIS265Y1/​ HIS266H1/​ HIS271Y1/​ HIS280Y1/​ HIS282Y1/​ HIS292H1/​ HIS297Y1/​ HIS312H1/​ HIS314H1/​ HIS316H1/​ HIS317H1/​ HIS318H1/​ HIS327H1/​ HIS328H1/​ HIS360H1/​ HIS365H1/​ HIS366H1/​ HIS369H1/​ HIS378H1/​ JHA394H1/​ HIS396H1/​ HIS418H1/​ HIS421H1/​ HIS435H1/​ HIS479H1/​ HIS482H1/​ HIS484H1

Political Science & Public Policy:
JPF455H1/​ JPF456H1/​ POL201H1 (formerly POL201Y1)/ POL214H1 (formerly POL214Y1)/ POL316H1 (formerly POL316Y1)/ POL317H1/​ POL349H1/​ POL361H1/​ POL362H1/​ POL413H1/​ POL438H1/​ POL443H1/​ POL447H1/​ POL464H1/​ POL467H1/​ PPG301H1

Sociology:
SOC205H1/​ SOC207H1/​ SOC208H1/​ SOC210H1/​ SOC214H1/​ SOC220H1/​ SOC243H1/​ SOC246H1/​ SOC249H1/​ SOC260H1/​ SOC280H1/​ SOC282H1/​ SOC303H1/​ SOC304H1/​ SOC306H1/​ SOC308H1/​ SOC309H1/​ SOC311H1/​ SOC312H1/​ SOC325H1/​ SOC335H1/​ SOC339H1/​ SOC356H1/​ SOC360H1/​ SOC363H1/​ SOC364H1/​ SOC365H1/​ SOC366H1/​ SOC367H1/​ SOC372H1/​ SOC383H1/​ SOC478H1/​ SOC486H1

Environment:
ENV200H1/​ ENV221H1/​ ENV222H1/​ ENV307H1/​ ENV320H1/​ ENV335H1/​ ENV350H1/​ ENV422H1/​ GGR223H1/​ GGR314H1/​ GGR334H1/​ GGR347H1/​ GGR348H1/​ GGR416H1/​ GGR419H1/​ JGE331H1

Other:
AFR250Y1/​ ANT200Y1/​ ANT318H1/​ ANT347H1/​ ANT450H1/​ CDN268H1/​ CDN325H1/​ CDN335H1/​ CDN367H1/​ CDN385H1/​ DTS310H1/​ DTS414H1/​ FAH207H1/​ FAH215H1/​ FAH230H1/​ FAH265H1/​ FAH273H1/​ FAH303H1/​ FAH308H1/​ FAH309H1/​ FAH325H1/​ FAH331H1/​ FAH354H1/​ FAH371H1/​ FAH376H1/​ FAH415H1/​ FAH421H1/​ HST305H1/​ HST330H1/​ INS403H1/​ JQR360H1/​ JUG325H1/​ LIN451H1/​ RLG308H1/​ RLG309H1/​ SLA318H1

ARC253H1/​ ARC331Y0/​ VIS327Y0/​ ARC354H1/​ ARC355H1/​ ARC357H1/​ ARC367H1/​ ARC383H1/​ VIS406H1/​ ARC453H1/​ ARC467H1 (For ARC/VIS courses, please see Daniels Calendar)

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with Innis College's Urban Studies program will have the new "URB" designator. Joint JGI courses will also see their designator changed to "JGU."

Urban Studies Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN2207

Enrolment Requirements:

This is a limited enrolment program. Students must have completed 4.0 credits and meet the requirements listed below to enrol.

Variable Minimum Grade Average
A minimum grade average in required courses is needed for entry, and this minimum changes each year depending on available spaces and the number of applicants. The following courses must be completed:

For students with 4.0 to 8.5 credits:

1.0 credit from one of the following groups:

For students with 9.0 or more credits:

URB235H1 (formerly INI235H1) and URB236H1 (formerly INI236H1), and:

1.0 credit from one of the following groups:

To ensure that students admitted to the program will be successful, applicants with a combined grade average lower than 70% in the required courses will not be considered for admission. Please note that obtaining this minimum grade average does not guarantee admission to the program.

Students are invited to inquire with the program office about possible appropriate substitutions for the courses above.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits, including at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)

First Year:

1. One of the following selections:

Higher Years:

2. URB235H1 and URB236H1

3. 0.5 credit in URB or JGU courses at the 300-level or above.

4. 1.5 credits in at least two of the following groups, including at least 0.5 credit at the 300-level or above.

Urban Studies:
Any URB or JGU courses not already taken to fulfill requirement 3.

Economics:
ECO305H1/​ ECO310H1/​ ECO313H1/​ ECO314H1/​ ECO316H1/​ ECO320H1/​ ECO322H1/​ ECO324H1/​ ECO332H1/​ ECO333H1/​ ECO334H1/​ ECO336H1/​ ECO338H1/​ ECO339H1/​ ECO340H1/​ ECO341H1/​ ECO342H1/​ ECO362H1/​ ECO364H1/​ ECO372H1/​ ECO401H1/​ IRE339H1

Geography:
GGR217H1/​ GGR221H1/​ GGR240H1/​ GGR241H1/​ GGR246H1/​ GGR252H1/​ GGR254H1/​ GGR320H1/​ GGR323H1/​ GGR326H1/​ GGR327H1/​ GGR328H1/​ GGR329H1/​ GGR336H1/​ GGR339H1/​ GGR342H1/​ GGR343H1/​ GGR349H1/​ GGR352H1/​ GGR354H1/​ GGR357H1/​ GGR359H1/​ GGR360H1/​ GGR374H1/​ GGR424H1/​ GGR431H1/​ GGR438H1/​ GGR456H1/​ GGR457H1/​ GGR458H1/​ GGR460H1/​ GGR482H1

History:
HIS220Y1/​ HIS222H1/​ HIS230H1/​ HIS241H1/​ HIS242H1/​ HIS243H1/​ HIS244H1/​ HIS250Y1/​ HIS251Y1/​ HIS262H1/​ HIS265Y1/​ HIS266H1/​ HIS271Y1/​ HIS280Y1/​ HIS282Y1/​ HIS292H1/​ HIS297Y1/​ HIS312H1/​ HIS314H1/​ HIS316H1/​ HIS317H1/​ HIS318H1/​ HIS327H1/​ HIS328H1/​ HIS360H1/​ HIS365H1/​ HIS366H1/​ HIS369H1/​ HIS378H1/​ JHA394H1/​ HIS396H1/​ HIS418H1/​ HIS421H1/​ HIS435H1/​ HIS479H1/​ HIS482H1/​ HIS484H1

Political Science & Public Policy:
JPF455H1/​ JPF456H1/​ POL201H1 (formerly POL201Y1)/ POL214H1 (formerly POL214Y1)/ POL316H1 (formerly POL316Y1)/ POL317H1/​ POL349H1/​ POL361H1/​ POL362H1/​ POL413H1/​ POL438H1/​ POL443H1/​ POL447H1/​ POL464H1/​ POL467H1/​ PPG301H1

Sociology:
SOC205H1/​ SOC207H1/​ SOC208H1/​ SOC210H1/​ SOC214H1/​ SOC220H1/​ SOC243H1/​ SOC246H1/​ SOC249H1/​ SOC260H1/​ SOC280H1/​ SOC282H1/​ SOC303H1/​ SOC304H1/​ SOC306H1/​ SOC308H1/​ SOC309H1/​ SOC311H1/​ SOC312H1/​ SOC325H1/​ SOC335H1/​ SOC339H1/​ SOC356H1/​ SOC360H1/​ SOC363H1/​ SOC364H1/​ SOC365H1/​ SOC366H1/​ SOC367H1/​ SOC372H1/​ SOC383H1/​ SOC478H1/​ SOC486H1

Environment:
ENV200H1/​ ENV221H1/​ ENV222H1/​ ENV307H1/​ ENV320H1/​ ENV335H1/​ ENV350H1/​ ENV422H1/​ GGR223H1/​ GGR314H1/​ GGR334H1/​ GGR347H1/​ GGR348H1/​ GGR416H1/​ GGR419H1/​ JGE331H1

Other:
AFR250Y1/​ ANT200Y1/​ ANT318H1/​ ANT347H1/​ ANT450H1/​ CDN268H1/​ CDN325H1/​ CDN335H1/​ CDN367H1/​ CDN385H1/​ DTS310H1/​ DTS414H1/​ FAH207H1/​ FAH215H1/​ FAH230H1/​ FAH265H1/​ FAH273H1/​ FAH303H1/​ FAH308H1/​ FAH309H1/​ FAH325H1/​ FAH331H1/​ FAH354H1/​ FAH371H1/​ FAH376H1/​ FAH415H1/​ FAH421H1/​ HST305H1/​ HST330H1/​ INS403H1/​ JQR360H1/​ JUG325H1/​ LIN451H1/​ RLG308H1/​ RLG309H1/​ SLA318H1

ARC253H1/​ ARC331Y0/​ VIS327Y0/​ ARC354H1/​ ARC355H1/​ ARC357H1/​ ARC367H1/​ ARC383H1/​ VIS406H1/​ ARC453H1/​ ARC467H1 (For ARC/VIS courses, please see Daniels Calendar)

Note: Effective Fall 2021, courses associated with Innis College's Urban Studies program will have the new "URB" designator. Joint JGI courses will also see their designator changed to "JGU."

Writing and Rhetoric Minor (Arts Program) - ASMIN2137

For program information, visit the Writing and Rhetoric website: https://writingprogram.innis.utoronto.ca/wr/. You may also contact the Writing and Rhetoric Program Coordinator at programs.innis@utoronto.ca.

Enrolment Requirements:

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program.

Completion Requirements:

(4.0 credits, including 1.0 credit at the 300/400-level.)

  1. 2.5 credits in WRR or JWE courses
  2. 1.5 credits from the following courses not already used to fulfill requirement 1. Courses outside these lists, which include WRR topics and independent study courses, may be included as designated by the Program Director.

Analysis and Argumentation

WRR103H1/​ WRR203H1/​ WRR204H1/​ JWE206H1/​ WRR304H1/​ WRR308H1/​ WRR317H1/​ WRR408Y1/​ WRR409H1/​ WRR410H1/​ ENG100H1/​ ENG281H1/​ LIN481H1/​ PHL275H1/​ TRN200Y1

Professional and Public Writing

WRR104H1/​ WRR300H1/​ WRR302H1/​ WRR306H1/​ WRR309H1/​ WRR310H1/​ WRR312H1/​ WRR316H1/​ BMS100H1/​ BMS200Y1/​ BMS300H1/​ BMS331H1/​ BMS332H1/​ CDN221H1/​ PHL295H1/​ REN345H1

Rhetoric, Theory and Narrative

WRR201H1/​ WRR211H1/​ WRR301H1/​ WRR303H1/​ WRR305H1/​ WRR307H1/​ WRR311H1/​ WRR311Y1/​ WRR313H1/​ WRR315H1/​ WRR413H1/​ WRR414H1/​ ANT253H1/​ ANT329H1/​ CRE275H1/​ CRE291H1/​ CRE280H1/​ CRE350Y1/​ CRE480H1/​ ENG110Y1/​ ENG205H1/​ ENG213H1/​ ENG235H1/​ ENG237H1/​ ENG239H1/​ ENG285H1/​ ENG385H1/​ ENG289H1/​ ENG387H1/​ JAL328H1/​ JAL355H1/​ LIN200H1/​ LIN201H1/​ LIN203H1/​ LIN204H1/​ WGS396H1

Notes:

  • No more than a 0.5 credit in transfer credit may be counted towards the program.

Regarding Innis College Courses

Note

Courses are listed in this order:

  • First-Year Foundations Seminars
  • Innis One
  • Urban Studies
  • Writing and Rhetoric
  • Other Innis College courses

For Cinema Studies Courses, see Cinema Studies Institute.

Innis College Courses

Innis College First-Year Foundations

INI196H1 - Environmental Writing

INI196H1 - Environmental Writing
Hours: 24L

From environmental disasters and ecological collapse to climate change denial and celebrations of nature and wilderness, we will explore the diverse ways humans imagine and write about the natural world and the consequences of such writing. We will study a variety of nonfiction texts, images, and videos about ecology, the environment, nature, wilderness, and sustainability as we consider what these terms mean. From the 19th century American transcendentalists to 20th century ecologists, and 21st century scientific, Indigenous, feminist, and anti-racist perspectives, we will analyze the many ways that humans use writing to argue for certain ways of seeing and interacting with our planet and the creatures that inhabit it. Through weekly reading, written reflections, and discussion, students will hone their deep reading, research, and writing skills. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Innis One Courses

INI100H1 - The City Where Movies Are Made

INI100H1 - The City Where Movies Are Made
Hours: 36S

In this course, first-year students will be introduced to film culture in Toronto from a variety of angles, including: a history of the city onscreen (both as itself and as a popular shooting location for American productions); an account of major Toronto filmmaking sites and institutions; introductions to local directors and producers; and overviews of contemporary local film festival culture (TIFF and beyond) as well as the city’s film-critical community. Through a combination of lectures, screenings, field trips and special guest speakers, the students will be moved to consider both the vitality of Toronto’s film scene as well as its connections to other aspects of the city. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

INI101H1 - Blogging the Just City

INI101H1 - Blogging the Just City
Hours: 36S

An introduction to the concept of the city as a creative environment promoting not only growth and wealth but also social justice, equality, cooperation, and civility. Students will learn to build their own blog to help them to observe, interpret, and reflect upon the process of urban interaction and the relationship between creativity and justice. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

INI102H1 - Telling the Stories of the City: Writing Creative Non-Fiction

INI102H1 - Telling the Stories of the City: Writing Creative Non-Fiction
Hours: 36S

An introduction to creative writing techniques and the personal essay form through which students will explore and develop their conscious connection to the natural-urban landscape. The course will include activities such as field trips, readings, interviews, and journaling to generate the material for personal essays on engagement with nature in the city. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

INI105H1 - Nature and the City

INI105H1 - Nature and the City
Hours: 36S

This course introduces first-year students to nature in the city from a variety of perspectives: from contemplative to activist discourse, private gardens to public parks, and biodiversity to inequality. Through texts, images, films, and field trips, students will figuratively and literally explore the city and its relationship to the natural, the wild, and other contested ideas. Students write weekly journals in response to the course materials from which they develop a term project that focuses on an aspect of nature in the city.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

INI106H1 - Writing Literary Journalism: Telling the Stories of the City

INI106H1 - Writing Literary Journalism: Telling the Stories of the City
Hours: 36S

An introduction to literary journalism, in which students study the craft of storytelling along with interviewing, reporting, and the journalist’s ethical stance. Guest speakers, field trips, writing activities and course readings will help students engage deeply with their environment and develop the skills and sensitivity required for literary reporting. Restricted to first-year students. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Urban Studies Courses

JGU216H1 - Globalization and Urban Change

JGU216H1 - Globalization and Urban Change
Previous Course Number: JGI216H1
Hours: 24L

Focusing on the impacts that global flows of ideas, culture, people, goods, and capital have on cities throughout the globe, this course explores some of the factors that differentiate the experiences of globalization and urban change in cities at different moments in history and in various geographic locations.

Exclusion: JGI216H1
Recommended Preparation: GGR124H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB234H1 - Cities in Popular Culture

URB234H1 - Cities in Popular Culture
Previous Course Number: INI234H1
Hours: 24L

By exploring different popular culture phenomena such as the emergence of hip-hop in the Bronx, Batman's Gotham, and Nollywood, this course works to examine the contributions of popular culture in shaping our understandings of cities (as well as providing different perspectives of the city and the urban experience than is generally captured in scholarly/academic literature). Popular culture becomes a vehicle by which we will explore different aspects of urban life and urban representation.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI234H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB235H1 - A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies I: Theoretical Foundations of City Building

URB235H1 - A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies I: Theoretical Foundations of City Building
Previous Course Number: INI235H1
Hours: 24L

Focuses on the theoretical foundations of urbanization, urban change, and city building, with particular attention on global urban growth, history of contemporary urbanization, urban planning, governance, built form, and economic development. These topics are explored through a multidisciplinary lens, with an emphasis on understanding urban transitions over time and their meaning for contemporary urban experience.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits, including 1.0 credit from any of the following courses: ECO101H1, ECO102H1, ECO105Y1, GGR107H1, GGR112H1, GGR124H1, POL101H1, POL106H1, POL107H1, POL109H1, SOC100H1, SOC150H1, JAV120H1, JAV151H1, JAV152H1, ARC181H1
Exclusion: INI235H1, INI235Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB236H1 - A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies II: Urban Challenges and Theoretical Application

URB236H1 - A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies II: Urban Challenges and Theoretical Application
Previous Course Number: INI236H1
Hours: 24L

Cities are centres of innovation and creative energy, but they also face significant and pressing challenges. This course explores various urban issues including inequality, eroding infrastructure, and concerns arising from globalization, while also examining the ways in which municipal governments and urban citizens are imagining and implementing potential solutions to these challenges.

Prerequisite: URB235H1
Exclusion: INI235Y1, INI236H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB333H1 - Social Justice in the City

URB333H1 - Social Justice in the City
Previous Course Number: INI333H1
Hours: 24L

How do power and dominance consolidate in urban settings? How do individuals and communities contest this consolidation, and claim spaces and rights in the city? These questions will be taken up through a range of critical approaches, including Indigenous, critical race feminist, political economy, queer, and anarchist perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to carry out interview-based research on an issue of equality and social justice that matters to them.

Exclusion: INI333H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB334H1 - Urban Field Course

URB334H1 - Urban Field Course
Previous Course Number: INI334H1
Hours: 12S

Students will have the opportunity to travel to a destination city for a week-long examination of specific social, economic, physical, and/or environmental issues. The trip will include meetings with municipal representatives and other decision-makers (public and possibly private). The findings of the trip supplemented by bibliographic research and in-class discussion will form the basis of a major research essay. Each student is required to pay the cost of transportation and accommodation. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: URB235H1 and URB236H1
Exclusion: INI334H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB335H1 - City Challenges, City Opportunities in a 21st Century Toronto

URB335H1 - City Challenges, City Opportunities in a 21st Century Toronto
Hours: 12L/12S

Over the last 50+ years, Toronto has become a national and international centre of economic activity, with a vibrant arts and culture scene and world-renowned research, educational, and health institutions. Additionally, the City has become one of the most culturally diverse cities in the world. That said, Toronto also struggles with deep inequalities along many different axes, an affordable housing crisis, underfunded infrastructure needs, and many other challenges. This course provides a window into how the leadership at the City of Toronto think and approach these and other issues as the City works to plan for the recovery from COVID-19.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits
Exclusion: URB338H1 (Advanced Topics in Urban Studies I: City Challenges, City Opportunities in a 21st Century Toronto), offered in Fall 2021
Recommended Preparation: URB235H1, URB236H1, GGR124H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB336H1 - Creative Cities

URB336H1 - Creative Cities
Previous Course Number: INI336H1
Hours: 24L

A prominent thesis in the fields of planning and economic geography is that the presence of creative occupations in a city correlates positively with the overall health of urban regions. This course will investigate the nature of this link from theoretical and empirical perspectives and examine its potential usefulness in a planning/policy context.

Exclusion: INI336H1, INI336Y1
Recommended Preparation: URB235H1/ URB236H1/ GGR124H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB337H1 - Housing and Homelessness

URB337H1 - Housing and Homelessness
Previous Course Number: INI337H1
Hours: 24L

Toronto, like other global cities, is characterized by a stark dichotomy: upscale residential and commercial development transforms the landscape, even while increasing numbers of residents are forced to live on the streets, in encampments, in shelters, or crowded into unaffordable and substandard housing. This course will examine that paradox and activism that is trying to achieve the federal government’s stated goal: “By 2030, everyone in Canada has a home that they can afford and that meets their needs”. Through readings, discussions, guest presenters, and activities, we will trace the links between housing, homelessness, and urban politics; review policies and trends at the municipal, provincial/territorial and national levels; and connect with urban movements to contest displacement.

Exclusion: INI337H1
Recommended Preparation: GGR124H1/ ( URB235H1, URB236H1)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB338H1 - Advanced Topics in Urban Studies I

URB338H1 - Advanced Topics in Urban Studies I
Previous Course Number: INI338H1
Hours: 24L

This course will expose students to a range of contemporary theoretical, analytical, and policy oriented debates in Urban Studies. The emphasis will be on establishing a broad knowledge base in the multifaceted field of urban studies. The exact topics to be covered will fall broadly under the banner of urban socioeconomic change, and specific syllabi, year to year, will follow contemporary and emerging debates.

Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB339H1 - Divided City / United City

URB339H1 - Divided City / United City
Previous Course Number: INI339H1
Hours: 24L

Focus on the impact of increased economic inequality and economic polarization trends that are reshaping Canada's metropolitan areas, changing neighbourhoods, and affecting the lives of our diverse urban population. Using the Toronto area as an example, students explore the consequences of these trends and the implications for public policy.

Prerequisite: Completion of 8.0 credits
Exclusion: INI339H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB342H1 - Qualitative Research in Urban Studies

URB342H1 - Qualitative Research in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI342H1
Hours: 24S

This course provides students an opportunity to craft and initiate an Urban Studies capstone research project. Students will gain knowledge, experience and insight in utilizing qualitative research methods including interviewing, focus groups, observational analysis and other techniques. Seminars and assignments focus on the application of qualitative methods to each student’s selected urban research question.

Exclusion: INI342H1
Recommended Preparation: URB235H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JGU346H1 - The Urban Planning Process

JGU346H1 - The Urban Planning Process
Previous Course Number: JGI346H1
Hours: 24L

Overview of how planning tools and practice shape the built form of cities. This course introduces twentieth century physical planning within its historical, social, legal, and political contexts. Community and urban design issues are addressed at local and regional scales and in both central cities and suburbs. The focus is on Toronto and the Canadian experience, with comparative examples from other countries, primarily the United States. Transportation costs: $20.

Exclusion: JGI346H1, GGR361H5
Recommended Preparation: 8.0 credits including GGR124H1, URB235H1, URB236H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB430H1 - Advanced Topics in Urban Studies II

URB430H1 - Advanced Topics in Urban Studies II
Previous Course Number: INI430H1
Hours: 24L

This course is meant to be a senior complement to URB338H1 whereby important theoretical, analytical and/or policy debates are addressed in a research seminar format. Students in URB430H1 will be expected to extend, or refine research topics identified and explored in URB338H1 in a major independent research project. Students will present their proposals, their progress reports, and their final results to the instructor and the class.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits, including URB235H1, URB236H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB431Y1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies

URB431Y1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI431Y1

Special topics courses are offered periodically for senior students in the Urban Studies Program. Offerings in any given year will depend on program priorities, availability of specialized expertise and funding. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Recommended Preparation: URB235H1, URB236H1, completion of research design and research methods courses, 14.0 credits in an aligned social science program.

URB432H1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies

URB432H1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI432H1

Special topics courses are offered periodically for senior students in the Urban Studies Program. Offerings in any given year will depend on program priorities, availability of specialized expertise and funding. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Recommended Preparation: URB235H1 and URB236H1, completion of research design and research methods courses, 14.0 credits in an aligned social science program.

URB433H1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies

URB433H1 - Special Topics in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI433H1
Hours: 24S

Special topics courses are offered periodically for senior students in the Urban Studies Program. Offerings in any given year will depend on program priorities, availability of specialized expertise and funding. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Recommended Preparation: URB235H1 and URB236H1, completion of research design and research methods courses, 14.0 credits in an aligned social science program.

URB434Y1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies

URB434Y1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI434Y1

Designed to allow strong students in the Major and Specialist programs to extend a piece of urban research under the supervision of a faculty member from any aligned department. Choice of ‘H’ or ‘Y’ session pursuant to the scope of the research envisioned, the proposed supervisor’s assessment of depth of the inquiry, and the approval of the program director. Proposals, including a letter from an agreeable supervisor should be submitted to the program director by June 1 for a Fall or Year session course and by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Completion of 14.0 credits including URB235H1 and URB236H1
Exclusion: INI434Y1

URB435H1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies

URB435H1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI435H1

Designed to allow strong students in the Major and Specialist programs to extend a piece of urban research under the supervision of a faculty member from any aligned department. Choice of ‘H’ or ‘Y’ session pursuant to the scope of the research envisioned, the proposed supervisor’s assessment of depth of the inquiry, and the approval of the program director. Proposals, including a letter from an agreeable supervisor should be submitted to the program director by June 1 for a Fall or Year session course and by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Completion of 14.0 credits including URB235H1 and URB236H1
Exclusion: INI435H1

URB436H1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies

URB436H1 - Independent Research in Urban Studies
Previous Course Number: INI436H1

Designed to allow strong students in the Major and Specialist programs to extend a piece of urban research under the supervision of a faculty member from any aligned department. Choice of ‘H’ or ‘Y’ session pursuant to the scope of the research envisioned, the proposed supervisor’s assessment of depth of the inquiry, and the approval of the program director. Proposals, including a letter from an agreeable supervisor should be submitted to the program director by June 1 for a Fall or Year session course and by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Completion of 14.0 credits including URB235H1 and URB236H1
Exclusion: INI436H1

URB437Y1 - Urban Experiential Learning in Toronto & the GTA

URB437Y1 - Urban Experiential Learning in Toronto & the GTA
Previous Course Number: INI437Y1
Hours: 72S

A method of studying city issues that combines readings, seminar discussions, and field trips with an 8 hour / week internship in the office of a municipal politician, local government, or non-profit organization. Readings focus on community development, urban planning, economic development and local governance. Students must fill out a ballot for the course (available by contacting the Urban Studies Program Office) by June 1st. Enrolment in this course is competitive and at the discretion of the Urban Studies Director and/or course instructor.

Prerequisite: URB235H1, URB236H1. Priority is given to students enrolled in the Urban Studies Minor, Major, or Specialist Programs. However, consideration may be given to students with suitable course background as determined by the Program Director.
Exclusion: INI437Y1, INI306Y1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB438H1 - Advanced Urban Research Project

URB438H1 - Advanced Urban Research Project
Previous Course Number: INI438H1
Hours: 24S

This course will allow students to investigate an urban topic of their choice in a guided seminar environment. This course will guide students through the various steps of the research process including: proposal writing and refinement, secondary research, primary data acquisition, analysis and the production of a senior research paper. The course emphasizes the connections between the design, implementation and write-up of an in-depth research paper. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: URB235H1 and URB236H1
Exclusion: INI438H1, INI438Y1
Recommended Preparation: URB342H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB439H1 - Cities and Mega-events: Place-making, Contestation and Urban Citizenship

URB439H1 - Cities and Mega-events: Place-making, Contestation and Urban Citizenship
Previous Course Number: INI439H1
Hours: 24S

Mega-events, like the Olympics, give cities the opportunity to showcase themselves to the world, but the production of television-friendly urban images do much to obscure the processes, compromises and social consequences in host cities. These events are powerful tools for city branding. They are also potential opportunities for social movements and other groups and individuals to highlight their own sets of concerns. This course will explore the challenges and opportunities that cities face in hosting such events.

Prerequisite: Completion of 12.0 credits
Exclusion: INI439H1; INI430H1 (Advanced Topics in Urban Studies II: Cities and Mega-Events: Conflicts and Opportunity) offered in Winter 2014; INI332H1; INI432H1 (Special Topics in Urban Studies: Cities and Mega-Events), offered in Fall 2016
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB440H1 - The Changing Culture of Regent Park

URB440H1 - The Changing Culture of Regent Park
Previous Course Number: URB430H1, INI430H1
Hours: 24L

This course is a collaboration with the organization Regent Park Focus Youth Media Arts Centre, a not-for-profit organization that was established to counter negative stereotypes about the Regent Park community. Together, University of Toronto students and Regent Park Focus youth members will learn about media projects initiated by young people across the world, and how these creative forms of communication, organizing, and expression spurred change and social movements in their respective communities. U of T students and Regent Park Focus youth will work together to create their own media project about the neighborhood.

Prerequisite: URB235H1, URB236H1, URB342H1 (or other qualitative research methods course); or permission of instructor
Exclusion: URB430H1 (The Changing Culture of Regent Park, offered in Fall 2022, Winter 2024), INI430H1 (Youth, Arts and Engagement in Cities, offered in Winter 2019, Winter 2020)
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

URB442H1 - Urban Studio: Public Participation in Policy Making

URB442H1 - Urban Studio: Public Participation in Policy Making
Previous Course Number: URB432H1, INI432H1
Hours: 24S

This course will provide a broad overview of the roles of both the citizen and the professional practitioner in advancing effective and meaningful public participation in the policy-making process, particularly as it relates to city planning. Through an examination of a mix of theoretical frameworks and case studies from Toronto and elsewhere, you will gain an understanding of the ways in which effective public participation can contribute to the maintenance of a healthy democratic society while also exploring some of the key challenges and opportunities faced by public participation practitioners today. The course has two key objectives: to give you a practical understanding of all of the elements of an effective public participation process, and to explore how public participation processes can be designed to be more inclusive and effective. In addition, students will be able to apply this knowledge towards the development of a project or report for a client.

Prerequisite: 9.0 credits
Exclusion: Urban Studio: Public Participation in Policy Making taken under URB432H1 (offered in Fall 2022)/ INI432H1 (offered in Summer 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021)
Recommended Preparation: URB235H1, URB236H1, completion of 14.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

JGU454H1 - The Role of the Planner: Making a Difference

JGU454H1 - The Role of the Planner: Making a Difference
Previous Course Number: JGI454H1
Hours: 24L

Focuses on the role of a planning practitioner in contemporary society using a wealth of examples drawn from recent issues and debates in Canadian cities and regions. The course will walk students through the demands made of planners in terms of both technical expertise as well as political necessity and ask them to think actively about how to prepare for the extraordinary growth of cities during the next century. Examples of issues that will be discussed in some detail include the myths surrounding the city vs. the suburbs, the creativity and passion involved in planning work and the need to see Toronto’s future from a regional perspective.

Prerequisite: 14.5 credits, 5.0 of which must be GGR/URB
Exclusion: JGI454H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

Writing and Rhetoric Courses

WRR103H1 - Introduction to Academic Writing

WRR103H1 - Introduction to Academic Writing
Previous Course Number: INI103H1
Hours: 36L

This course introduces students to the strategies and practices of successful writing at the university and beyond. WRR103H1 challenges students to reflect on and cultivate their strengths as readers and writers as they enter the university. Students will develop their critical reading abilities and written communication skills through meaningful writing projects in diverse genres, including multimodal composition.

Exclusion: INI103H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR104H1 - Writing Reports

WRR104H1 - Writing Reports
Previous Course Number: INI104H1
Hours: 36S

Students will learn the fundamentals of report writing, including how to write abstracts and conduct literature reviews as well as qualitative and quantitative research. Students also learn to communicate visually, including how to create tables, charts, and graphs with attention to purpose, audience, structure, style, skills they apply to a formal report and a poster presentation.

Exclusion: INI104H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR201H1 - Theories of Rhetoric: A Brief History of Persuasion

WRR201H1 - Theories of Rhetoric: A Brief History of Persuasion
Previous Course Number: INI201H1
Hours: 36S

When contemporary critics seek to discredit dishonest politicians, they tend to refer to their discourse as “mere rhetoric.” But there is so much more to rhetoric than deception. This course examines the history of rhetoric, the art of persuasion, from its birth in Greco-Roman antiquity to its rebirth in twentieth and twenty-first century thought. In addition to tracking the history of Western ideas about persuasion, we will bring rhetorical theories to bear on vital questions about philosophy, psychology, media, and advertising.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI201H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

JWE206H1 - Writing English Essays

JWE206H1 - Writing English Essays
Previous Course Number: JEI206H1
Hours: 24L/12T

This course teaches students who already write effectively how to write clear, compelling, research-informed English essays. The course aims to help students recognize the function of grammar and rhetoric, the importance of audience, and the persuasive role of style.

Prerequisite: Completion of 1.0 ENG credit or any 4.0 credits
Exclusion: JEI206H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR211H1 - Introduction to Creative Writing

WRR211H1 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Previous Course Number: INI211H1
Hours: 36S

This introductory course focuses on the process and craft of creative writing. Students will study short fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry by established writers, and learn to respond to works-in-progress by their peers. A variety of activities will help students generate, develop, and revise a portfolio of original creative work.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI211H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR300H1 - Strategic Writing in Business and the Professions: Theory and Practice

WRR300H1 - Strategic Writing in Business and the Professions: Theory and Practice
Previous Course Number: INI300H1
Hours: 36S

Students learn the theory and practice of effective and ethical communication in the workplace, including business, government, and non-profit organizations. Students apply ethical reasoning models to case studies. Students have an opportunity to work directly with a community partner, helping them to solve an industry-specific problem or concern. This experiential learning enables students to work together as a team to develop relevant solutions as they strengthen their written and verbal communication skills.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI300H1, INI302H1, WRR302H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR302H1 - Writing in Business and the Professions for Rotman Commerce Students

WRR302H1 - Writing in Business and the Professions for Rotman Commerce Students
Previous Course Number: INI302H1
Hours: 24L/12T

Designed for and restricted to Rotman Commerce undergraduates, the course reflects the program’s learning goals, which include critical thinking, ethical reasoning, and business and professional communication (oral and written). Students apply business communication theory and ethical reasoning models to business cases. Students have an opportunity to work directly with a community partner, helping them to solve an industry-specific problem or concern. This experiential learning enables students to work together as a team to develop relevant solutions as they strengthen their written and verbal communication skills

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI300H1, INI302H1, WRR300H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR303H1 - Digital Rhetoric

WRR303H1 - Digital Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI303H1
Hours: 36S

This course explores the pivotal role that media plays in our culture. Beginning with U of T rhetorician Marshall McLuhan’s far-reaching ideas about media environments, WRR303H1 takes students on a journey through a wide variety of ideas about media, technology, and rhetoric. Topics include the rhetorical dimensions of social media platforms, the strengths and shortcomings of online activism, the emergence of surveillance capitalism, and the operation of persuasion in dating apps.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI303H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR304H1 - The Illusion and Reality of Evidence

WRR304H1 - The Illusion and Reality of Evidence
Previous Course Number: INI304H1
Hours: 24L

This seminar in critical reading, analysis, and writing focuses on the nature, the evaluation, and the use and abuse of evidence in the process of formulating and supporting an argument. The case study method will be employed to assess the level of authority, credibility, and objectivity evident in public discourse, official sources, and academic inquiry.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits, including 0.5 credit of WRR/JWE courses.
Exclusion: INI304H1
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR305H1 - Word and Image in Modern Writing

WRR305H1 - Word and Image in Modern Writing
Previous Course Number: INI305H1
Hours: 36S

This course examines the persuasive power of writing about visual art and texts. Students will analyze a variety of texts about visual images from several disciplines and genres: journalism, informal essays, poetry, and scholarly writing.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI305H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR306H1 - Writing About Plants and the Environment

WRR306H1 - Writing About Plants and the Environment
Hours: 36S

This course uses rhetoric, the study of persuasion, to analyze the cultural, political, and scientific importance of plants. We examine Indigenous knowledge related to plants and the environment as well as debates about plant communication, urban tree coverage and inequality, and environmental justice issues. We also explore the social and health benefits of community gardening, horticultural therapy, and forest bathing. Students reflect on their own relation to land as they deepen their knowledge and appreciation of plants and develop expertise in communicating with public audiences through multimodal writing projects (such as podcasts and video essays) and local field trips.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Exclusion: WRR308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing About Plants and the Environment) offered in Fall 2023 and Winter 2023.
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR307H1 - Rhetoric of Health and Medicine

WRR307H1 - Rhetoric of Health and Medicine
Hours: 36S

Since its inception, rhetoric has been concerned with persuasion and its relationship to human flourishing. This course brings rhetorical thought into important dialogue with health research, medical practices, and pharmaceutical advertising. Medicalized phenomena—like hypochondria, depression, sexual dysfunction, and death & dying—are all bound up with influence. A rhetorical perspective on health and wellness tracks this influence through networks of individuals, institutions, texts, media forms, genres, and narratives.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine) offered in Fall 2019, and WRR308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Rhetoric of Health and Medicine) offered in Winter 2022
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR308H1 - Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR308H1 - Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI308H1
Hours: 24S

Courses on selected topics in Writing and Rhetoric.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR309H1 - Professional Communication with Environmental Groups

WRR309H1 - Professional Communication with Environmental Groups
Hours: 36S

Given the climate crisis, how do environmental groups use communication to advance their aims? In this community-engaged learning course, students work with environmental organizations on professional communication projects. Students learn about rhetoric and communication as they refine and reflect on their writing processes and practice writing in multiple genres. Students create a variety of multimodal communication projects such as social media and web content for community partners. Through readings, reflection, discussion, and projects involving feedback from peers, instructor, and community partners, students learn principles and strategies to inform and persuade a variety of audiences about environmental issues.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR310H1 - Stylistic Editing and Copy Editing

WRR310H1 - Stylistic Editing and Copy Editing
Previous Course Number: INI310H1
Hours: 36S

This course introduces students to professional editorial conventions at two later stages of the editorial process. Both stages require analytical skills and sentence expertise. Through stylistic editing, students learn how to improve a writer’s literary style; through copy editing, they learn how to ensure both accuracy and consistency (editorial style).

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI310H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR311H1 - Seminar in Creative Writing – Fiction

WRR311H1 - Seminar in Creative Writing – Fiction
Previous Course Number: WRR311Y1, INI311Y1
Hours: 36S

This workshop-based course teaches students about the creative writing process and the fundamentals of writing fiction specifically. Through readings of fiction in various genres, discussions, creative writing prompts and longer assignments, students learn how storytellers work with setting, character, scenes, structure, point-of-view, style and other elements. Students will learn how to take creative risks and grow through writing fiction, how to develop solid work from shaky drafts, how to be generous yet shrewd editors of their own and others’ work, and how and why to be active in a writing community.

Prerequisite: 4.0 credits
Exclusion: WRR311Y1, INI311Y1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR312H1 - Writing Literary Journalism

WRR312H1 - Writing Literary Journalism
Hours: 36L

This course introduces students to works by some of the most influential literary journalists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Classes will be devoted to individual literary-journalistic genres: the personal essay, the profile, the polemic, the memoir, literary reportage, and cultural criticism. Students will look closely at key writers who worked across these genres: George Orwell, James Baldwin, Joan Didion, Joyce Carol Oates. Over the semester, students will develop and write a feature-length work of literary journalism in a genre of their choice, to be refined through peer workshop and instructor feedback.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing Literary Journalism), offered in Summer 2021
Recommended Preparation: Experience or strong interest in writing journalism.
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR313H1 - Visual Rhetoric

WRR313H1 - Visual Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI413H1, WRR413H1
Hours: 36L

This course examines how images and objects communicate with and persuade viewers. Visual rhetoric is part of the broader academic field known as rhetorical studies. This course will introduce students to the “language” of display, exploring questions such as the following: How does physical arrangement, context, and architectural space give voice to the silent object? How are fine art and decorative art objects invested with meaning? Students will be introduced to object-based learning and material culture and learn to analyze and interpret visual grammar in international exhibitions, in auction and exhibition catalogues, in reviews of exhibits, and in museum collections. Objects will include ceramics, jewellery, interiors, architecture, and fashion in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI413H1, WRR413H1
Recommended Preparation: WRR103H1/ WRR203H1/ WRR204H1
Breadth Requirements: Society and its Institutions (3)

WRR315H1 - Writing from Territory: Creative Writing in Fiction and Nonfiction

WRR315H1 - Writing from Territory: Creative Writing in Fiction and Nonfiction
Hours: 36S

This course guides students in a creative writing process that is engaged with place and time. Classes are held outdoors at various locations in Toronto. Through guided writing activities, discussions, assignments and writing workshops, students learn how writing grounded in and informed by territory can expand their work, adding intimacy, immediacy, authenticity and depth. Readings and techniques are drawn from literary fiction of different genres (e.g., realism, speculative, YA, fantasy), and a range of creative nonfiction. Students are invited to explore any genre.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: WRR308H1 (Selected Topics in Writing and Rhetoric: Writing From Territory: Creative Writing in Fiction and Nonfiction) offered in Summer 2023
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR316H1 - Developmental and Substantive Editing

WRR316H1 - Developmental and Substantive Editing
Previous Course Number: INI316H1
Hours: 36S

This course introduces professional editorial conventions at two early stages of the editorial process. Both stages require editors to think critically and creatively as they assess content, organization, and argument. Students learn how to analyze and evaluate these elements, envision possible improvements, and explain these suggestions persuasively.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: INI316H1
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

WRR317H1 - Advanced Academic Writing

WRR317H1 - Advanced Academic Writing
Previous Course Number: WRR203H1
Hours: 36S

The course covers various kinds of academic writing, including the essay, the long form book review, the annotated bibliography, and the undergraduate thesis. Students learn to recognize the rhetorical frames, persuasive strategies, elements of style, and uses of scholarly evidence that are features of academic writing. Readings include academic and non-academic prose from a variety of disciplines. Through reading, research, reflection, writing, and citation of sources, students learn to engage in the scholarly conversation that is foundational to all advanced academic writing. Students will develop voices as writers in dialogue with other writers, scholars, and commentators.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Exclusion: WRR203H1
Recommended Preparation: Any first or second-year writing course.
Breadth Requirements: Thought, Belief and Behaviour (2)

WRR405Y1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR405Y1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI405Y1

Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit from WRR103H1/ WRR104H1, WRR201H1, WRR203H1, WRR303H1, WRR305H1, WRR413H1, WRR414H1
Exclusion: INI405Y1

WRR406H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR406H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI406H1

Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit from WRR103H1/ WRR104H1, WRR201H1, WRR203H1, WRR303H1, WRR305H1, WRR413H1, WRR414H1
Exclusion: INI406H1

WRR407H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR407H1 - Independent Studies in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI407H1

Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoric staff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric Program. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: 1.0 credit from WRR103H1/ WRR104H1, WRR201H1, WRR203H1, WRR303H1, WRR305H1, WRR413H1, WRR414H1
Exclusion: INI407H1

WRR408Y1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR408Y1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI408Y1

Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.

Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.

WRR409H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR409H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI409H1
Hours: 36S

Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.

Prerequisite: Completion of 9.0 credits

WRR410H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric

WRR410H1 - Special Topics in Writing and Rhetoric
Previous Course Number: INI410H1
Hours: 36S

Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing and Rhetoric.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits

WRR414H1 - Writing for Social Change

WRR414H1 - Writing for Social Change
Previous Course Number: INI414H1
Hours: 36S

We will read and write a variety of texts focused on understanding and effecting social change. Students will be encouraged to engage with different theories of social change and an array of writing genres, ranging from journalism to critical theory to fiction. Ultimately, students will focus on one or several key social issues that they wish to write about for their final project.

Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirements: Creative and Cultural Representations (1)

Other Innis College Courses

INI299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

INI299Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities…. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

INI399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

INI399Y1 - Research Opportunity Program

Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. Details at https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/current/academics/research-opportunities…. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

INI400Y1 - Independent Research

INI400Y1 - Independent Research

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students explore topics of their own choice and design their own research projects for a course not otherwise available within the Faculty. The student should submit a detailed proposal and a letter of support from the supervisor by June 1 for Y and F courses and by September 1 for S courses. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Normally requires completion of 15.0 credits with 3.3 CGPA and permission of the Innis College Vice-Principal.

INI401H1 - Independent Research

INI401H1 - Independent Research

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students explore topics of their own choice and design their own research projects for a course not otherwise available within the Faculty. The student should submit a detailed proposal and a letter of support from the supervisor by June 1 for Y and F courses and by September 1 for S courses. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Normally requires completion of 15.0 credits with 3.3 CGPA and permission of the Innis College Vice-Principal.

INI402H1 - Independent Research

INI402H1 - Independent Research

Under the supervision of a faculty member, students explore topics of their own choice and design their own research projects for a course not otherwise available within the Faculty. The student should submit a detailed proposal and a letter of support from the supervisor by June 1 for Y and F courses and by September 1 for S courses. Not eligible for CR/NCR option.

Prerequisite: Normally requires completion of 15.0 credits with 3.3 CGPA and permission of the Innis College Vice-Principal.

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