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New sound libraries: Electric cars, V8s, church and hotel ambiences, new Foley, and more!
This week on A Sound Effect, we have eleven new libraries that bring you high-energy impacts, detailed ambiences, and interesting sonic ingredients.
We have creepy libraries that top off the Halloween season with ghostly voices and a collection for horror games.
We also have cars from the opposite ends of the loudness spectrum with growling V8 engines and a quiet, earth-friendly electric car, plus three new packs of Foley – footsteps, armor hits, and body impacts – and ambiences from churches and hotels.
Finally, if you're looking for dramatic cinematic action, be sure to check out a Dunkirk-inspired clock library and a compilation of hard-hitting, climatic sci-fi sounds. Happy listening!
'Electric Vehicles vol. 2: BMW i3' by Morten Green Sound FX delivers 162 minutes of stereo recordings of the BMW i3 B-class, high-roof hatchback electric vehicle.
'Cars - V8' by BOOM Library features classic cars like the 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle, Ford Mustang, 1968 Plymouth Satellite, and the sheer fury of a 750 horse-power Ford Shelby GT500 with astonishing definition and sublime detail.
Get the legendary sound of classics like the 1966 Chevrolet Chevelle, Ford Mustang, 1968 Plymouth Satellite and the sheer fury of a 750 horse-power Ford Shelby GT500, among others, in astonishing definition and sublime detail. CARS — V8 is the giant brother of EVERYDAY CARS and CARS – SUVS AND VANS, and it's our third installment in the CARS series.
All onboard engine recordings include slow, medium, fast, steady and other sounds from the engine, exhaust and interior perspective. The exterior features approaches, turning corners, distant sounds, passes, reverses, starts and rev-ups. Additional sounds like handling, horns and more round off the package.
V8 CARS stands prepared to master any linear or interactive challenge that gets thrown your way as a sound designer. With the vast variety of sounds available, you will have the perfect audio to match at your disposal, whether authentic real-time engine ramps or heavily edited film scenes are on the table. Pay close attention to the changes in perspective in the announcement trailer.
'Quiet Hotels At Night' by West Wolf includes 27 stereo tracks with evening and night atmospheres from hotel corridors and rooms recorded in Bulgaria, Sweden, and Romania.
Quiet Hotels At Night is the first one of themed library series in which you'll go through night hotels. The package includes 27 stereo tracks with evening and night atmospheres from hotel corridors and rooms. The library is recorded mostly in large hotels in Bulgaria, Sweden and Romania. You will hear a variety of quiet atmospheres from empty corridors and rooms, air conditioners, bathrooms, an empty lobby bar with working refrigerators, to low activity from neighbouring rooms and backgrounds, screaming from a distant room, etc. Room tones and ambiеnces are suitable background for any audiovisual projects.
Enjoy your stay at the Night Hotel.
'Armour Pack 01: Humanoid' by Game Audio Resource contains over 45 minutes of nothing but medieval armor movements for humanoid entities.
The Armour Pack 01: Humanoid contains over 45 minutes (250 files) of nothing but high quality medieval types of armour movement actions for an humanoid entity.
The included basic construction kit / original recordings enables further armour details to be created for more granular focus.
Armour Types: Leather, Cloth, Chain-mail, Segmented.
'Horror Game' by Epic Stock Media is a haunting cataclysm of horror sound effects featuring over 1,200 dark and devious sounds.
This horror-able sound pack includes all the essentials and sonic inspiration to awaken latent darkness in any post production session. Perfect for your next zombie horror masterpiece. But use with caution.
'Body Pack 01: Humanoid' by Game Audio Resource contains over 80 minutes of body falls, impacts, and landings on multiple surface types.
'Footstep Pack 01: Humanoid' by Game Audio Resource gets you over 90 minutes of footsteps on multiple surface types and generic movements designed for game audio.
'Trailer Pulse Clock' by TH Studio Production features 10 different types of designed clocks and 7 Kontakt instruments with pulsing, reverberating, and clean clock sounds.
Introducing TRAILER PULSE CLOCK, featuring 10 different types of designed clocks. Contains 7 Kontakt 5.6.6 Instruments as well as .wav versions.
'Custom Tools' by SampleTraxx crosses the border between music and sound design with 570+ horror and sci-fi sound effects with 15 cinematic categories.
SampleTraxx continues to cross the border between music and sound design with "Custom Tools" a new collection of 570+ new sound effects and 15 categories for true cinematic lovers.
Custom Tools is made to design high definition cinematic sci-fi horror trailer and soundtracks with a variety of production-ready sonic elements, noises and tension. This sound pack is a modern cinematic tool for shocking industrial horror sound design with a sci-fi aesthetics.
Featuring 1.5Gb of content, 570+ sound effects and 15 categories in Wav format 48/24 meticulously named and organised for fast workflow to be immediately dragged in every DAW or sampler.
For a limited time, when you purchase a license for this library, you also get to pick an additional Sampletraxx library for free. Instructions will be included with your order.
'Churches' by Edible Audio features walla, chair creaks, coughs, prayers, foot traffic, and movements from 8 large cathedrals and small chapels each with their own unique characteristics.
Large cathedrals & small chapels each with their unique characteristics and reverb. Recorded at 8 different churches this library features walla, chair creaks, coughs, prayers, foot traffic & movement.
All sounds were recorded using the DPA 5100 and Sound Devices 788T. This library is available in stereo or 5.0 (5.0 package contains stereo mix downs as well).
'Ghosts Return' by Articulated Sounds has recordings of male and female ghosts, crows, bells, extensive door knocks from various perspectives, and sounds of ghosts trying to enter a room.


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Minor Concentration International Development Studies (18 credits)
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development Degree: Bachelor of Arts and Science
This program may be expanded to the Major Concentration International Development Studies.
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1. At least 9 of the 18 credits must be at the 300 level or above.
2. Students may complete the Minor concentration with no more than 9 credits in total from any one discipline.
Required Courses (9 credits)
ECON 208 Microeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
Offered by: Economics (Faculty of Arts)
Economics (Arts) : A university-level introduction to demand and supply, consumer behaviour, production theory, market structures and income distribution theory.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta, Paul Dickinson, Irakli Japaridze (Fall) Paul Dickinson (Winter) Irakli Japaridze (Summer)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken or are taking ECON 230 or ECON 250
ECON 313 Economic Development 1 (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : Microeconomic theories of economic development and empirical evidence on population, labour, firms, poverty. Inequality and environment.
Instructors: Matthieu Chemin, Diego Pulido Lema (Fall) Matthieu Chemin (Winter) Nagham Sayour (Summer)
Prerequisite: ECON 208 and either ECON 209 or one development course.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-313D.
INTD 200 Introduction to International Development (3 credits)
Offered by: Inst for the St of Development (Faculty of Arts)
International Development : An interdisciplinary introduction to the field of International Development Studies focusing on the theory and practice of development. It examines various approaches to international development, including past and present relationships between developed and underdeveloped societies, and pays particular attention to power and resource distribution globally and within nations.
Terms: Fall 2016
Instructors: Kazue Takamura, Kenneth Deer (Fall)
Complementary Courses (9 credits)
3 credits from the following introductory courses:
ANTH 202 Socio-Cultural Anthropology (3 credits)
Offered by: Anthropology (Faculty of Arts)
Anthropology : An introduction to ways of understanding what it means to be human from the perspective of socio-cultural anthropology. Students will be introduced to diverse approaches to this question through engagement with a wide range of ethnographic cases.
Terms: Fall 2016, Summer 2017
Instructors: Edward Kohn (Fall) Karen Elisabeth McAllister (Summer)
ANTH 212 Anthropology of Development (3 credits)
Anthropology : Processes of developmental change, as they affect small communities in the Third World and in unindustrialized parts of developed countries. Problems of technological change, political integration, population growth, industrialization, urban growth, social services, infrastructure and economic dependency.
GEOG 210 Global Places and Peoples (3 credits)
Offered by: Geography (Faculty of Science)
Geography : Introduction to key themes in human geography. Maps and the making, interpretation and contestation of landscapes, 'place', and territory. Investigation of globalization and the spatial organization of human geo-politics, and urban and rural environments.
Terms: Winter 2017
Instructors: Jon Unruh, Brian Robinson (Winter)
GEOG 216 Geography of the World Economy (3 credits)
Geography : The course introduces the geography of the world economic system. It describes the spatial distribution of economic activities and examines the factors which influence their changing location. Case studies from both "developed" and "developing" countries will test the different geographical theories presented in lectures.
Instructors: Oliver T Coomes, Sebastien Breau (Fall)
POLI 227 Developing Areas/Introduction (3 credits)
Offered by: Political Science (Faculty of Arts)
Political Science : An introduction to Third World politics. A comparative examination of the legacies of colonialism, the achievement of independence, and contemporary dynamics of political and socio-economic development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Topics include modernization, dependency, state-building and national integration, revolution, the role of the military, and democratization.
Instructors: Rex J Brynen (Winter)
Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas.
SOCI 254 Development and Underdevelopment (3 credits)
Offered by: Sociology (Faculty of Arts)
Sociology (Arts) : Competing theories about the causes of underdevelopment in the poor countries. Topics include the impact of geography, the population explosion, culture and national character, economic and sexual inequalities, democracy and dictatorship. Western imperialism and multi-national corporations, reliance on the market, and development through local participation, cooperation, and appropriate technology.
Instructors: Amm Quamruzzaman (Winter)
6 credits from any of the four streams:
Stream 1: Economic Development and Living Standards
Stream 2: States and Governance
Stream 3: Culture and Society
Stream 4: Environment and Agricultural Resources
Experience has shown that development requires economic growth and is shaped by the distribution of economic resources. At the same time, the globalized economy has created new opportunities and new challenges for sustained growth. Courses in this stream revolve around the factors contributing to sustained economic growth, the trade-offs associated with different ways of achieving it, and the distributional issues development inevitably raises. More generally, this stream is also concerned with understanding what "development" actually entails in different contexts.
Stream 1 - Agriculture
AGRI 411 Global Issues on Development, Food and Agriculture (3 credits)
Offered by: Animal Science (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)
Agriculture : International development and world food security and challenges in developing countries. Soil and water management, climate change, demographic issues, plant and animal resources conservation, bio-products and biofuels, economic and environmental issues specially in tropical and sub-tropical regions. Globalization, sustainable development, technology transfer and human resources needs for rural development.
Instructors: Humberto Monardes (Winter)
Two 2-hour conferences
Stream 1 - Agricultural Economics
AGEC 430 Agriculture, Food and Resource Policy (3 credits)
Offered by: Agricultural Economics (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)
Agricultural Economics : Examination of North American and international agriculture, food and resource policies, policy instruments, programs and their implications. Economic analysis applied to the principles, procedures and objectives of various policy actions affecting agriculture, and the environment.
Instructors: Gordon Hickey (Winter)
3 lectures
Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or equivalent
AGEC 442 Economics of International Agricultural Development (3 credits)
Agricultural Economics : The course deals with economic aspects of international development with emphasis on the role of food, agriculture and the resource sector in the economy of developing countries. Topics will include world food analysis, development project analysis and policies for sustainable development. Development case studies will be used.
Instructors: Justin Rushemeza (Winter)
Prerequisites: AGEC 200 or AGEC 201 or equivalent
Stream 1 - Anthropology
ANTH 227 Medical Anthropology (3 credits)
Anthropology : Beliefs and practices concerning sickness and healing are examined in a variety of Western and non-Western settings. Special attention is given to cultural constructions of the body and to theories of disease causation and healing efficacy. Topics include international health, medical pluralism, transcultural psychiatry, and demography.
Instructors: Margaret Stevenson (Fall)
ANTH 339 Ecological Anthropology (3 credits)
Anthropology : Intensive study of theories and cases in ecological anthropology. Theories are examined and tested through comparative case-study analysis. Cultural constructions of "nature" and "environment" are compared and analyzed. Systems of resource management and conflicts over the use of resources are studied in depth.
Instructors: Colin H Scott (Winter)
Prerequisite: ANTH 204, or ANTH 206, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300 or ENVR 201, or ENVR 203, or permission of instructor
Stream 1 - Business Administration
BUSA 433 Topics in International Business 1 (3 credits) *
Offered by: Management (Desautels Faculty of Management)
Business Admin : Current topics in the area of international business. Topics will be selected from important current issues in international business.
Terms: Winter 2017, Summer 2017
Instructors: Hodjat Khadjavi (Winter) Frederick Stapenhurst (Summer)
Corequisite: MGCR 382
* When topic is relevant to IDS.
Stream 1 - Economics
ECON 209 Macroeconomic Analysis and Applications (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : A university-level introduction to national income determination, money and banking, inflation, unemployment and economic policy.
Instructors: Paul Dickinson (Fall) Paul Dickinson, Mayssun El-Attar Vilalta, Irakli Japaridze (Winter) Irakli Japaridze (Summer)
Prerequisites: ECON 208 or permission of the instructor
ECON 223 Political Economy of Trade Policy (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : The course introduces students to the economics of international trade, what constitutes good trade policy, and how trade policy is decided. The course examines Canadian trade policy since 1945, including the GATT, Auto Pact, the FTA and NAFTA, and concludes with special topics in trade policy.
Instructors: Ling Ling Zhang (Winter)
Prerequisite: ECON 208
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic development issues, including theories of growth, public finance, debt, currency crises, corruption, structural adjustment, democracy and global economic organization.
Terms: Fall 2016, Winter 2017
Instructors: John C Kurien (Fall) John C Kurien, Maxwell Tuuli (Winter)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken 154-313D
ECON 326 Ecological Economics (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : Macroeconomic and structural aspects of the ecological crisis. A course in which subjects discussed include the conflict between economic growth and the laws of thermodynamics; the search for alternative economic indicators; the fossil fuels crisis; and "green'' fiscal policy.
Instructors: Robin Thomas Naylor (Fall) Robin Thomas Naylor (Winter)
Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 or consent of instructor
ECON 336 The Chinese Economy (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : Examination of the growth and transformation of the Chinese economy and the domestic and international implications.
Instructors: Christopher Green (Fall)
Prerequisites: ECON 208 and ECON 209 (or ECON 230D1/D2 or 250D1/D2).
ECON 411 Economic Development: A World Area (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : An advanced course in the economic development of a pre-designated underdeveloped country or a group of countries.
Instructors: John C Kurien (Winter)
Prerequisites: ECON 230 or ECON 250 and one semester of economic development
ECON 416 Topics in Economic Development 2 (3 credits)
Economics (Arts) : This course gives students a broad overview of the economics of developing countries. The course covers micro and macro topics, with particular emphasis on the economic analysis at the micro level.
Instructors: Francesco Amodio (Fall)
Prerequisite: ECON 230 or ECON 250 or permission of the instructor
Stream 1 - Geography
GEOG 303 Health Geography (3 credits)
Geography : Discussion of the research questions and methods of health geography. Particular emphasis on health inequalities at multiple geographic scales and the theoretical links between characteristics of places and the health of people.
Instructors: Mylene Riva (Winter)
Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOG 201, GEOG 203, GEOG 210, GEOG 216, GEOG 217; or permission of instructor
GEOG 310 Development and Livelihoods (3 credits)
Geography : Geographical dimensions of rural/urban livelihoods in the face of socioeconomic and environmental change in developing regions. Emphasis on household natural resource use, survival strategies and vulnerability, decision-making, formal and informal institutions, migration, and development experience in contrasting global environments.
Instructors: Jon Unruh, Sarah Turner (Winter)
Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200
GEOG 403 Global Health and Environmental Change (3 credits)
Geography : Major themes and contemporary case studies in global health and environmental change. Focus on understanding global trends in emerging infectious disease from social, biophysical, and geographical perspectives, and critically assessing the health implications of environmental change in different international contexts.
Prerequisite: GEOG 205 or GEOG 221 or GEOG 321 or GEOG 303 or permission from the instructor
Restriction: Course not open to students who were registered for GEOG 303 in Winter 2008.
GEOG 408 Geography of Development (3 credits)
Geography : Examines the geographical dimensions of development policy, specifically the relationships between the process of development and human-induced environmental change. Focuses on environmental sustainability, struggles over resource control, population and poverty, and levels of governance (the role of the state, non-governmental organizations, and local communities).
Instructors: Jon Unruh (Fall)
Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
GEOG 409 Geographies of Developing Asia (3 credits)
Geography : Current development questions that are of concern to the Asian region. Emphasis on critically studying the major processes of social, economic and environmental change through regional case studies in rural, peri-urban and urban contexts. Covers important debates and considerations that lie at the heart of development geography.
Instructors: Sarah Turner (Fall)
Prerequisite: GEOG 210 or GEOG 216 or ENVR 201 or INTD 200 or GEOG 310 or permission of instructor
GEOG 410 Geography of Underdevelopment: Current Problems (3 credits)
Geography : An examination of the cultural, political, and economic mechanisms and manifestations of contemporary underdevelopment and the response to it from different regional and national peripheral societies within the dominant world economic system.
Prerequisite: GEOG 216 or permission of instructor
Stream 1 - History
HIST 361 Topics in Canadian Regional History (3 credits)
Offered by: History and Classical Studies (Faculty of Arts)
History : Topics in Canadian regional history. Topics will vary by year.
Prerequisite: HIST 202 or HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Not open to students who have taken HIST 432.
Stream 1 - International Development Studies
INTD 350 Culture and Development (3 credits)
International Development : This is a general survey course intended to familiarize students with the complexities surrounding the interaction between culture and development from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Specific themes may include religion, democracy, gender, diaspora communities and the environment, using relevant case studies from the developing world.
Prerequisite(s): A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken INTD 397 in Winter 2014 or Winter 2015.
INTD 397 Topics in International Development (3 credits)
International Development : Examines topics in specific problem areas in International Development Studies. Content varies every term.
Instructors: Kazue Takamura (Winter)
Prerequisite: A 200 or 300 level course related to International Development, or permission of instructor.
INTD 490 Development Research Project (3 credits)
International Development : Supervised reading, research project in international development. Requirements consist of a project proposal and final research report.
Instructors: Kazue Takamura (Fall) Kazue Takamura, Alfred M Jaeger, Brian Robinson, Rex J Brynen, Leonardo Baccini, Cecily Raynor, Katherine Lemons (Winter)
Prerequisite: completion of ECON 313 and 3 credits of IDS Group A Complementary Courses
Restriction: Open only to students enrolled in International Development Studies Concentrations with prior approval of IDS program adviser and project supervisor
INTD 499 Internship: International Development Studies (3 credits)
International Development : Internship with an approved host institution or organization.
Instructors: Kazue Takamura, Jon Unruh, Sarah Moser, Raja Sengupta, Jon Soske, Matthieu Chemin, Fernando Nunez, Claudia A Mitchell, Jaye Dana Ellis, Rex J Brynen, Leonardo Baccini, Sandra Hyde, Khalid Medani, John Galaty, Francesco Amodio, Mehri Ghazanjani, Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert, Oliver T Coomes, Sarah Brauner-Otto, Matthew Lange, Catherine C LeGrand (Fall) Diana Allan, Rex J Brynen (Winter) Samuel Harper (Summer)
Restriction: Open to U2 and U3 students with a minimum CGPA of 2.7, and permission of the departmental Internship Adviser. This course will not normally fulfill program requirements for seminar or 400-level courses. A letter from a supervisor at the institution must attest to successful completion of the student's tenure.
Stream 1 - Management Core
MGCR 360 Social Context of Business (3 credits)
Management Core : This course examines how business interacts with the larger society. It explores the development of modern capitalist society, and the dilemmas that organizations face in acting in a socially responsible manner. Students will examine these issues with reference to sustainable development, business ethics, globalization and developing countries, and political activity.
Instructors: Robert James David, Nii Antiaye Addy, Lindsay Holmgren (Fall) Lindsay Holmgren, Saku Mantere, Miron Avidan, Simin Foster, Stephane Ethier (Winter) Glen Whelan (Summer)
MGCR 382 International Business (3 credits)
Management Core : An introduction to the world of international business. Economic foundations of international trade and investment. The international trade, finance, and regulatory frameworks. Relations between international companies and nation-states, including costs and benefits of foreign investment and alternative controls and responses. Effects of local environmental characteristics on the operations of multi-national enterprises.
Instructors: Jan J Jorgensen, Donald Melville, John Saba (Fall) Donald Melville, John Saba, Nicholas Matziorinis (Winter) John Saba (Summer)
Stream 1 - Management Policy
MGPO 438 Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation (3 credits)
Management Policy : Explores key concepts associated with social entrepreneurship and social innovation – the application of principles of entrepreneurship and innovation to solve social problems through social ventures, enterprises and not-for-profit organizations. Focuses on the social economy, including how the market system can be leveraged to create social value.
Instructors: Laura Doering (Fall) Jocelyn Leitzinger (Winter)
Restriction(s): Open to U2, U3 students only. Students cannot receive credits if they already received credits for MGPO 434.
MGPO 440 Strategies for Sustainability (3 credits)
Management Policy : This course explores the relationship between economic activity, management, and the natural environment. Using readings, discussions and cases, the course will explore the challenges that the goal of sustainable development poses for our existing notions of economic goals, production and consumption practices and the management of organizations.
Instructors: Dror Etzion (Fall) Jad Robitaille (Winter)
Restriction: Open to U2, U3 students only
MGPO 475 Strategies for Developing Countries (3 credits)
Management Policy : Strategic management challenges in developing and emerging economies. Focus on strategies that foster both firm competitiveness and economic development, including: technological capabilities, new forms of organization, small and large firms, global production, social impact, global standards and governance.
Instructors: Paola Perez-Aleman (Fall)
Stream 1 - Political Science
POLI 372 Aboriginal Politics in Canada (3 credits)
Political Science : The relationship of aboriginal politics to larger debates and literatures within political science, such as citizenship theory, federalism, and collective action. Subjects covered include Canada's treaty history, constitutional changes, and aboriginal political development.
Instructors: Christa Scholtz (Fall)
Prerequisite: At least one course in Canadian politics such as, POLI 221 or POLI 222 OR Permission of the instructor.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken POLI 372 prior to W06.
POLI 423 Politics of Ethno-Nationalism (3 credits)
Political Science : Theories of ethno-nationalism examined in light of experience in Asia, Middle East and Africa. Topics include formation and mobilization of national, ethnic and religious identities in colonial and post-colonial societies; impact of ethno-nationalism on pluralism, democracy, class and gender relations; means to preserve tolerance in multicultural societies.
Instructors: Narendra Subramanian (Winter)
Prerequisites: one 300 or 400-level course in comparative politics; and one 300 or 400-level course on developing areas (any discipline.) The same course can fulfill both requirements
POLI 441 IPE: Trade (3 credits)
Political Science : Politics of international trade, such as the international rules governing trade in goods, the functioning of international bodies such as the WTO, and the domestic sources of these international policies.
Prerequisites: POLI 243 or permission of the instructor.
Note: The field is International Politics.
POLI 445 International Political Economy: Monetary Relations (3 credits)
Political Science : Advanced course in international political economy; the politics of international of monetary relations, such as international rules governing international finance, the reasons for and consequences of financial flows, and the functioning of international financial bodies such as the IMF and World Bank.
Stream 1 - Sociology
SOCI 307 Globalization (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Socio-economic, political and cultural dynamics related to processes of globalization. An examination of the following: key theoretical foundations of the globalization debate; the extent and implications of economic globalization; global governance and the continuing relevance of nation-states; instances of transnational activism; the diffusion of cultural practices; patterns and management of global migration and mobility.
Instructors: Jennifer Elrick (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or Permission of Instructor
SOCI 309 Health and Illness (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Health and illness as social rather than purely bio-medical phenomena. Topics include: studies of ill persons, health care occupations and organizations; poverty and health; inequalities in access to and use of health services; recent policies, ideologies, and problems in reform of health services organization.
SOCI 365 Health and Development (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Main concepts and controversies linking health to broader social and economic conditions in low income countries. Topics include the demographic and epidemiological transitions, the health and wealth conundrum, the social determinants of health, health as an economic development strategy, and the impact of the AIDS pandemic.
Instructors: Shelley Clark (Winter)
Prerequisite: SOCI 234 or SOCI 254
SOCI 513 Social Aspects HIV/AIDS in Africa (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Examination of the social causes and consequences of HIV/AIDS in Africa. Gender inequality, sexual behaviours, marriage systems, migration, and poverty are shaping the pandemic as well as how the pandemic is altering social, demographic and economic conditions across Africa.
Prerequisites: SOCI 225 or SOCI 309 or Permission of Instructor.
The courses in this stream focus on how political institutions shape developmental processes. Some courses analyze states and recognize how some promote development by providing diverse developmental goods while others impede development by preying on their peoples. Other courses focus on regimes and consider how political rights and participation, or their absences, affect developmental processes. Finally, several courses consider factors that make possible effective states and regimes.
ANTH 342 Gender, Inequality and the State (3 credits)
Anthropology : Comparative studies of gender in stratified societies: Asia, the Mid-East, Latin and North America. Economic, political and social manifestations of gender inequality. Oppressive and egalitarian ideologies. State and institutional policies on gender, and male-female strategies. Sexual apartheid and integration.
Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 341, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor
ANTH 512 Political Ecology (3 credits)
Anthropology : Historical, theoretical and methodological development of political ecology as a field of inquiry on the interactions between society and environment, in the context of conflicts over natural resources.
Instructors: Ismael Vaccaro (Winter)
HIST 209 Ancient Roman History (3 credits)
History : A survey of Roman history.
HIST 223 Natives of the Americas (3 credits)
History : The history of the indigenous peoples of the Americas on the eve of contact with Europeans and through the period of colonization.
Instructors: Allan Greer (Fall)
HIST 363 Canada 1870-1914 (3 credits)
History : This course will examine social, economic, political and cultural aspects of Canadian society between 1870 and 1914. Topics covered will include aboriginal peoples, European settlement of the West, provincial rights, the national policy, social reform movements, industrialization, immigration and the rise of cities.
Prerequisite: HIST 202 and HIST 203 or permission of instructor
Stream 2 - Islamic Studies
ISLA 360 Islam and Politics (3 credits)
Offered by: Islamic Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Islamic Studies : Assessment of the relationship between Islam and politics in the contemporary Middle East and Africa through various analytic themes, including political economy, social movement and gendered analysis.
Prerequisite: ISLA 210 or permission of instructor.
ISLA 383 Central Questions in Islamic Law (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : An integrative view of Islamic law in the past and present, including landmarks in Islamic legal history (e.g., sources of law; early formation; intellectual make-up; the workings of court; legal change; legal effects of colonialism; modernity and legal reform) and a structured definition of what it was/is.
Instructors: Ahmed Ibrahim (Winter)
Stream 2 - Latin American & Caribbean Studies
LACS 497 Research Seminar: Latin America and the Caribbean (3 credits)
Latin American & Caribbean St : An interdisciplinary research seminar on topics of common interest to staff and students of the Latin-American and Caribbean Studies Program.
Instructors: Cecily Raynor (Winter)
Restriction: Open to Program students and to others with permission of the Program Adviser.
Ordinarily offered in alternate years
POLI 319 Politics of Latin America (3 credits)
Political Science : This course will deal with the dynamics of political change in Latin America today.
Instructors: Daniel Douek (Winter)
Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor
POLI 322 Political Change in South Asia (3 credits)
Political Science : Political change in South Asia in late colonial and post-colonial periods. Issues covered include social and cultural history; colonial rule, nationalism and state formation; democratic and authoritarian tendencies; economic policies and consequences; challenges to patterns of dominance and national boundaries; prospects for democracy, prosperity and equality.
POLI 324 Developing Areas/Africa (3 credits)
Political Science : The government and politics of African states south of the Sahara with reference to the ideological and institutional setting as influenced by the forces of tradition and the impact of Western colonialism.
Instructors: Mohamed Sesay (Winter)
POLI 340 Developing Areas/Middle East (3 credits)
Political Science : An examination of the societies, political forces and regimes of selected countries of the Eastern Arab world (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia).
Instructors: Rex J Brynen (Fall)
POLI 341 Foreign Policy: The Middle East (3 credits)
Political Science : An examination of the changing regional security environment and the evolving foreign policies and relationships of Arab states in three areas - relations with non-Arab regional powers (Israel, Iran), inter-Arab relations, Great Power relations. The course will focus particularly on Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Prerequisite: A 200- or 300- level course in International Relations or Middle East politics or permission of the instructor
POLI 345 International Organizations (3 credits)
Political Science : The politics and processes of global governance in the 21st century, with a special emphasis on the United Nations system.
Instructors: Vincent Pouliot (Fall)
Prerequisite: A basic course in International Politics or written consent of instructor
POLI 347 Arab-Israel Conflict, Crisis, Peace (3 credits)
Political Science : Concepts - protracted conflict, crisis, war, peace; system, subsystem; Conflict-levels of analysis; historical context; images and issues; attitudes, policies, role of major powers; Crises-Wars - configuration of power; crisis models; decision-making in 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982 crisis-wars; conflict- crisis management; Peace-Making - pre-1977; Egypt-Israel peace treaty; Madrid, Oslo, Israel-Jordan peace; prospects for conflict resolution.
Prerequisite: 160-243 prior to 1997-98; or POLI 244
POLI 349 Foreign Policy: Asia (3 credits)
Political Science : An overview of the foreign policies of two rising powers - China and India - in addition to Japan, covering the historical evolution, goals and determinants of their foreign policies, interactions with the rest of Asia and the world, and efforts at institutionalised cooperation in South and East Asia.
Prerequisites: POLI 243 or 244, or permission of the instructor.
POLI 359 Topics in International Politics 1 (3 credits)
Political Science : A specific problem area in International Relations.
Instructors: Fernando Nunez, Leonardo Baccini (Winter)
Prerequisite: A basic course in International Relations
POLI 369 Politics of Southeast Asia (3 credits)
Political Science : Topics covered include: colonialism, nationalism, democracy, authoritarianism, war, economic development, social development, overseas Chinese, ethnicity, religion, populism, and international relations, as they apply to Southeast Asian politics.
Prerequisite: 200 level course in comparative politics (POLI 211, POLI 212, or POLI 227).
POLI 422 Developing Areas/Topics 2 (3 credits)
Political Science : A specific problem area in the Comparative Politics of Developing Areas.
Instructors: Vrinda Narain (Fall) Aaron Erlich (Winter)
Prerequisites: a basic course and preferably an upper level course in comparative politics
Note: The field is Comparative Politics in Developing Areas.
POLI 435 Identity and Inequality (3 credits)
Political Science : Inequality is often particularly durable between groups whose boundaries are based on assumed ancestry - e.g., the major ethnic categories in former European settler colonies, castes in South Asia. This course explores ongoing changes in the relationship between identity and social, economic and political inequality in some of these contexts.
Instructors: Narendra Subramanian (Fall)
Prerequisite: 300 level course in comparative politics or related social science course.
POLI 450 Peacebuilding (3 credits)
Political Science : An examination of transitions from civil war to peace, and the role of external actors (international organizations, bilateral donors, non-governmental organizations) in support of such transitions. Topics will include the dilemmas of humanitarian relief, peacekeeping operations, refugees, the demobilization of ex-combatants, transitional elections, and the politics of socio-economic reconstruction.
Prerequisites: previous courses in comparative politics/developing areas and international relations. Internet research skills are strongly recommended
Note: The area in the field of Comparative Politics is Developing Areas; also in the field of International Politics.
POLI 473 Democracy and the Market (3 credits)
Political Science : The course examines the relationship between economic and political change by focusing on dual processes of economic reform and democratization. The inter-play of societal, state-level and international actors, and the possible trade-offs involved, are explored using examples from Latin America, the former Soviet bloc, and other developing areas.
Prerequisite: A course in Comparative Politics or written permission of the instructor
POLI 474 Inequality and Development (3 credits)
Political Science : The political structures and social forces underlying poverty and inequality in the developing world; the historical roots of inequality in different regions, varying manifestations of inequality (class, region, ethnicity, gender), and selected contemporary problems.
Instructors: Erik Kuhonta (Winter)
Prerequisite: A basic course in Comparative Politics or a course on the region or written permission of the instructor.
SOCI 265 War, States and Social Change (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : The impact of war on society in agrarian and industrial epochs. Particular attention is given to the relationship between war and economic development, social classes, nationalism, and democratization.
SOCI 484 Emerging Democratic States (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on the sociological aspects of recent transitions to democracy within developing countries - particularly within Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Exploration of why democratization has taken place, to what extent it has been successful and the implications of democratization.
Prerequisite: SOCI 210
SOCI 550 Developing Societies (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Comparison of alternative explanations of underdevelopment: the impact of social stratification, relations of domination and subordination between countries, state interference with the market. Alternative strategies of change: revolution, structural adjustment, community development and cooperatives. Students will write and present a research paper, and participate extensively in class discussion.
Instructors: Poulami Roychowdhury (Winter)
Stream 2 - Social Work
SWRK 400 Policy and Practice for Refugees (3 credits)
Offered by: Social Work (Faculty of Arts)
Social Work : Refugee-generating conflicts, international and national responses are considered. Canadian policy, history and response to refugees are analyzed. Theory-grounded practice with refugees is examined, including community organizing and direct service delivery to individuals and families.
Instructors: Katrina Heyde (Fall)
Restrictions: Limited to BSW U3, 2-year BSW, and U3 non-Social work students
The courses in this stream focus on how the social structures, history, and culture of populations affect developmental processes. Associations, class, gender, religion, race, and ethnicity, for example, all shape development in multiple and diverse ways. Moreover, present developmental processes oftentimes cannot be adequately understood without considering history. Culture, in turn, is increasingly recognized within development studies as both a determinant and a constitutive element of development. In exploring all three, the courses in this stream provide important insight into the complex and varied relationship between social context and development.
ANTH 209 Anthropology of Religion (3 credits)
Anthropology : Nature and function of religion in culture. Systems of belief; the interpretation of ritual. Religion and symbolism. The relation of religion to social organization. Religious change and social movements.
Instructors: Katherine Lemons, Clément Naim Jeanbart, Saman Tabasi Nejad, Emmanuel Précourt Senécal (Winter)
ANTH 301 Nomadic Pastoralists (3 credits)
Anthropology : Variations in herding systems over a wide range of habitats and involving a variety of species of domestic livestock. Comparative perspectives on the prehistory of pastoral systems, on the ideologies, cultures, and social and economic systems of nomadic pastoralists. Relations with non-pastoralists and the effects of change and development will also be examined.
Instructors: Philip Carl Salzman (Fall)
Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212
ANTH 318 Globalization and Religion (3 credits)
Anthropology : The interactions between religion and the economic, social and cultural transformations of globalization: relations between globalization and contemporary religious practice, meaning, and influence at personal and collective levels.
Prerequisites: U2 standing or above and ANTH 209, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 355 or ANTH 352 or RELG 207
ANTH 322 Social Change in Modern Africa (3 credits)
Anthropology : The impact of colonialism on African societies; changing families, religion, arts; political and economic transformation; migration, urbanization, new social categories; social stratification; the social setting of independence and neo-colonialism; continuity, stagnation, and progressive change.
Instructors: Julia Klara Bailey (Fall)
Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227 or permission of instructor
ANTH 326 Anthropology of Latin America (3 credits)
Anthropology : Central themes in the anthropology of Latin America, including colonialism, religiosity, sexuality and gender, indigeneity, social movements, and transnationalism.
Instructors: Samuel Veissière (Fall) Kristin Norget (Summer)
Prerequisite: ANTH 202 or 204 or 205 or 206 or 212 or permission of instructor
ANTH 327 Peoples of South Asia (3 credits)
Anthropology : An exploration of the dominant social institutions, cultural themes and perspectives, and psychological patterns found in India and greater South Asia.
Instructors: Peter Johansen (Fall)
Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212, or permission of instructor
ANTH 329 Modern Chinese Society and Change (3 credits)
Anthropology : 20th and 21st century Chinese economic, social and cultural changes and continuities. Topics include rural development, revolution and reform policies, gender and households, family planning, minorities, urbanization, and human rights.
Prerequisites: ANTH 202, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 212, or East Asian Studies Honours/Major, or permission of instructor
ANTH 338 Native Peoples of North America (3 credits)
Anthropology : Ethnographic survey of Native cultures in North America. Conditions arising from European colonization and their social, economic and political impact. Contemporary situation of indigenous peoples.
Prerequisite: ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or GEOG 336, or permission of instructor
ANTH 340 Middle Eastern Society and Culture (3 credits)
Anthropology : Exploration of daily life, culture and society in the Middle East, through examination of ethnographic accounts.
Prerequisites: U2 or U3 standing; and ANTH 202, or ANTH 204, or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 209, or ANTH 212, or ANTH 227, or permission of instructor
ANTH 341 Women in Cross-cultural Perspective (3 credits)
Anthropology : A wide range of anthropological studies are examined and compared, along with theoretical models regarding changes in women's positions. The impact of colonialism, women and social change, and problems of women in developing societies are examined.
Prerequisites: ANTH 202 or ANTH 205, or ANTH 206, or ANTH 342, or Women's Studies Minor, or permission of instructor
ANTH 422 Contemporary Latin American Culture & Society (3 credits)
Anthropology : Themes central to the culture and society of contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean, including globalization, questions of race and ethnicity, (post)modernity, social movements, constructions of gender and sexuality, and national and diasporic identities.
Prerequisites: ANTH 355, or ANTH 352, or HISP 226, or permission of the instructor.
Restriction: U3 students.
ANTH 436 North American Native Peoples (3 credits)
Anthropology : A detailed examination of selected contemporary problems.
Prerequisite: ANTH 338, or ANTH 336, or permission of instructor
ANTH 500 Chinese Diversity and Diaspora (3 credits)
Anthropology : Explores ethnic diversity within mainland China, as well as the diversity of Chinese cultures of diaspora, living outside the mainland, often as minorities subject to other dominant cultures.
Restrictions: Reserved for U3 Anthropology undergraduate students or graduate students, any other students by permission of instructor.
Enrolment Limit: 25 students.
Stream 3 - Canadian Studies
CANS 315 Indigenous Art and Culture (3 credits)
Offered by: Institute for Study of Canada (Faculty of Arts)
Canadian Studies : An examination of the work of selected First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists in Canada.
Instructors: Reilley Bishop-Stall (Fall)
Restriction(s): Not open to students who have taken or are taking ARTH 315 or have taken "Aboriginal Art and Culture" as a CANS or ARTH topics course.
Stream 3 - East Asian Studies
EAST 211 Introduction: East Asian Culture: China (3 credits)
Offered by: East Asian Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Chinese culture. The course will also examine the changing representations of the Chinese cultural tradition in the West. Readings will include original sources in translation from the fields of literature, philosophy, religion, and cultural history.
Instructors: Rebecca Robinson (Fall)
EAST 213 Introduction: East Asian Culture: Korea (3 credits)
Asian Language & Literature : This course provides a critical introduction to central themes in Korean culture, including Korean literature, religions, philosophy, and socio-economic formations.
Instructors: Michelle Cho (Fall)
Students may count either HIST 339 or POLI 347 toward Stream 3 but not both. See the Political Science course list for Stream 3.
HIST 197 FYS: Race in Latin America (3 credits)
History : This seminar explores what it meant to be native, black, or white in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. It explores how conceptualisations of race and ethnicity shaped colonialism, social organisation, opportunities for mobility, visions of nationhood, and social movements.
Instructors: Catherine C LeGrand (Fall)
Restriction: Open only to newly admitted students in U0 or U1, who may take only one FYS. Students who register for more than one will be obliged to withdraw from all but one of them.
Maximum 25 students
HIST 200 Introduction to African History (3 credits)
History : This course stresses the interactions of the peoples of Africa with each other and with the worlds of Europe and Islam from the Iron Age to the European Conquest in 1880.
HIST 201 Modern African History (3 credits)
History : While covering the general political history of Africa in the twentieth century, this course also explores such themes as health and disease, gender, and urbanization.
Instructors: Jon Soske (Fall)
HIST 208 Introduction to East Asian History (3 credits)
History : An introduction to the history of East Asian civilization from earliest times to 1600, with emphasis on China and Japan, including social, intellectual, and economic developments as well as political history.
Instructors: Griet Vankeerberghen (Fall)
Restriction(s): HIST 208 or permission of instructor
HIST 213 World History, 1300-2000 (3 credits)
History : A thematic and comparative approach to world history, beginning with the rise of the Mongols in the thirteenth century, and ending with globalization in the late twentieth century. Trade diasporas, technology, disease and imperialism are the major themes addressed.
Instructors: Daviken Studnicki-Gizbert (Fall)
HIST 218 Modern East Asian History (3 credits)
History : An introduction to the history of China and Japan from the seventeenth century to the present, including modernization, nationalism, and the interaction of the two countries.
Instructors: Gavin Walker (Winter)
HIST 309 History of Latin America to 1825 (3 credits)
History : The social, cultural, and economic aspects of Latin America and the Caribbean in the colonial period. Topics include: pre-Columbian and hispanic cultures in conflict, plantation empires, and the transition to independence. The sequel to this course is HIST 360.
HIST 317 Introduction to Indian Ocean World History (3 credits)
History : Examines the unifying features that linked the entire region from eastern Africa to the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East from early times to c.1900.
Instructors: Gwyn Campbell (Fall)
Prerequisite: A 200-level African or Asian history course or a political science course or an Islamic Studies course or permission of instructor.
HIST 333 Natives and French (3 credits)
History : Encounters between indigenous peoples and French newcomers in Canada and other parts of North America, 16th - 18th century. Through an examination of exploration, Catholic missions, trade, military alliances and colonization, the course focuses on the motives, outlooks and actions of both natives and Europeans.
Prerequisite: Any course in history or permission of instructor
HIST 338 Twentieth-Century China (3 credits)
History : Examines 20th Century China from the fall of the Qing, through Republican China, the emergence of communism, war with Japan, revolution and civil war, the Cultural Revolution, and later economic reforms.
Instructors: Jeremy Tai (Fall)
Prerequisite: one previous course in Chinese or Asian history or permission of instructor
HIST 339 Arab-Israeli Conflict (3 credits)
History : The political, military, and diplomatic history of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with a focus on a number of historiographical debates over specific issues, such as the 1948 and 1967 wars, and the failures of the various peace initiatives.
Restriction: Open to U2 or U3 students only or permission of instructor.
HIST 340 History of Modern Egypt (3 credits)
History : Explores the history of Egypt from the 18th Century to today. Topics include: Ottoman Egypt, the impact of French and British Colonialism, Nasserism, Camp David and economic liberalization, and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.
Instructors: Laila Parsons (Fall)
HIST 341 Themes in South Asian History (3 credits)
History : Exploration of a theme in the history of South Asia.
Instructors: Subho Basu (Fall) Subho Basu (Winter)
Themes may vary from year to year.
HIST 360 Latin America since 1825 (3 credits)
History : Themes in the political, economic, and social development of Latin America since the wars of independence. Emphasis on the domestic history of the region, with some attention to relations with the United States and Europe.
Instructors: Iwa Nawrocki (Winter)
HIST 366 Themes in Latin American History 1 (3 credits)
History : Exploration of a specific topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
Prerequisite: HIST 309 or HIST 360 or permission of the instructor.
Note: Topics will vary from year to year.
HIST 382 History of South Africa (3 credits)
History : History of South Africa from precolonial times to the present. Topics include: precolonial societies; British and Dutch colonialism; slavery in colonial South Africa; the Zulu kingdom; mining capitalism; the Boer War; Afrikaner nationalism; apartheid; the anti-apartheid struggle; music, religion, and art; challenges of the post-apartheid state.
Prerequisite: HIST 200 or HIST 201 or permission of instructor.
HIST 408 Colonialism and Native Peoples (3 credits)
History : The nature and consequences of encounters between American native peoples and Europeans.
Prerequisite: HIST 202
History : In-depth discussion and research on a circumscribed topic in the history of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1492 to the present.
Prerequisites: HIST 309 or HIST 360 and at least one other course in the Latin America area or permission of instructor.
HIST 419 Central America (3 credits)
History : The study of historical roots of the regional crisis of the 1980s, with particular attention to Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.
Prerequisite: HIST 309, HIST 360 or permission of instructor
HIST 528 Indian Ocean World Slave Trade (3 credits)
History : The origins, structure and impact of the Indian Ocean World slave trade from early times to the present day. Enslavement, the trading structure, slave functions, reactions to slavery, emancipation and 'slave' diaspora. Comparisons will be made to the Atlantic slave system.
Prerequisites: HIST 200 or HIST 213 or permission of instructor.
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken HIST 467.
Revision, June 2016. Start of revision.
ISLA 200 Islamic Civilization (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : An introduction to, and survey of, the religious, literary, artistic, legal, philosophical and scientific traditions that constituted Islamic civilization from the 7th Century until the mid-19th Century.
Instructors: Ahmed Ibrahim (Fall)
Note: All readings are in English.
ISLA 210 Muslim Societies (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : An introduction to the different, often disparate, ways in which Muslims live and think in the modern world (19th-21st centuries). Muslim social contexts across the globe and cyberspace.
Instructors: Khalid Medani, Osama Eshera, Sajjad Nikfahm Khubravan, Shahrouz Khanjari (Winter)
ISLA 310 Women in Islam (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : The socio-legal status, conditions, and experiences of various groups of women in Middle Eastern societies. These features are explored within the framework of Islamic feminism and Western feminist discourses, and the tensions and conflicts between them. The dynamics of seclusion, veiling, and polygamy are explored in connection to Medieval Arab ruling elites as a background to some of the discussions and debates over the status of women in modern postcolonial Arab society. Socio-economic divisions, state policies, patriarchy, and colonialism are investigated as key factors in understanding the modern historical transformation of gendered relations and women's roles.
Prerequisites::Either ISLA 200 or ISLA 210.
ISLA 345 Science and Civilization in Islam (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : History of scientific traditions and ideas in Islamic civilization, from the origins of Islam to the early modern period. Emphasis is on the derivation, development and transmissions of Islamic science, as well as on the assimilation and influence of science within Islamic culture.
Instructors: Faiz Ragep (Winter)
Prerequisite: ISLA 200 or permission of the instructor.
ISLA 355 Modern History of the Middle East (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : Assessment of the historical transformation of the modern Middle East concentrating on its internal socio-economic changes, as well as the colonial experience and encounters with the West since the early 19th century. Examination of the historical conditions that led to the rise of nationalism, the nation-state, the Arab-Israeli conflict.
ISLA 365 Middle East Since the 1970's (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : Changes that have occurred in the Middle East since the 1970's, viewed through the lens of themes such as migration, consumerism, war, communications, and ideology.
ISLA 411 History: Middle-East 1918-1945 (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : The impact of WWI on Middle Eastern society and politics; the British and French mandates; the growth of nationalisms, revolutions and the formation of national states; WW II and the clash of political interests within the region.
Instructors: Laila Parsons (Winter)
ISLA 415 Modern Iran: Anthropological Approach (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : The modern history, social, and cultural anthropology of contemporary Iran.
Instructors: Setrag Manoukian (Winter)
ISLA 421 Islamic Culture - Indian Subcontinent (3 credits)
Islamic Studies : Survey of Islamic culture (faith systems, literature, music, art) on the Indian subcontinent from the early modern period to the present, with a focus on conflict and relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, and between majority and minority Muslim groups.
Instructors: Mohamad Khan (Winter)
Prerequisite(s): ISLA 200 or ISLA 210 or permission of the instructor.
Revision, June 2016. End of revision.
Stream 3 - Management, Organizational Behaviour
ORGB 380 Cross Cultural Management (3 credits)
Organizational Behaviour : Addresses dilemmas and opportunities that managers experience in international, multicultural environments. Development of conceptual knowledge and behavioural skills (e.g. bridging skills, communication, tolerance of ambiguity, cognitive complexity) relevant to the interaction of different cultures in business and organizational settings, using several methods including research, case studies and experiential learning.
Instructors: Chantal Westgate, Karen K Diaz (Fall) Matissa Hollister (Winter) Alfred M Jaeger (Summer)
Students may count either HIST 339 or POLI 347 toward Stream 3 but not both. See the History course list for Stream 3.
POLI 442 International Relations of Ethnic Conflict (3 credits)
Political Science : Issues related to the internationalization of ethnic conflict, including diasporas, contagion and demonstration effects, intervention, irredentism, the use of sanctions and force. Combination of theory and the study of contemporary cases.
Prerequisite: POLI 244 or permission of instructor
Stream 3 - Religious Studies
RELG 208 World Religions and the Cultures They Create (3 credits)
Offered by: Religious Studies (Faculty of Arts)
Religious Studies : The course explores multiple links between a wide range of religions and the cultural landscapes that nourish them and are shaped by them. It does so through a voyage across time that explores the mutual entanglements of selected religions and cultures originating and thriving in varied regional context. The course's goal is to highlight the significance of religions for everyday cultures, the disciplines of the body, the care for the environment as well as artistic expression and literary cultivation.
Instructors: Thomas Troughton (Winter)
RELG 331 Religion and Globalization (3 credits)
Religious Studies : An exploration of the distinctive ways in which the world's religions are shaping and are shaped by the dynamics of globalization. It examines the multiple intersections of religion and globalization through a variety of themes and case studies in human rights, development, education, ecology, gender, and conflict
Instructors: Samuel Nelson, Jonathan Waind (Fall)
Restriction: Not open to students who have taken RELG 319 when topic was "Religion and Globalization"
RELG 370 Religion and Human Rights (3 credits)
Religious Studies : Social justice and human rights issues as key aspects of modem religious ethics. Topics include: the relationship of religion to the modem human rights movement; religious perspectives on the universality of human rights; the scope and limits of religious freedom; conflicts between religion and rights.
Instructors: Daniel M Cere (Fall) Jonathan Waind (Winter)
RELG 371 Ethics of Violence/Non-Violence (3 credits)
Religious Studies : Forms of violence and the reaction of religious groups are assessed both for their effectiveness and for their fidelity to their professed beliefs. Different traditions, ranging from the wholesale adoption of violent methods (e.g., the Crusades) to repudiation (e.g., Gandhi; the Peace Churches).
RELG 375 Religion, Politics and Society (3 credits)
Religious Studies : A study of contemporary religious traditions in the light of debates regarding secularization, the relation of religion and politics, and the interaction of religion with major social institutions.
Instructors: Samuel Nelson (Fall)
Restriction: U2 and U3 students
SOCI 234 Population and Society (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Introduction to the reciprocal linkages in the social world between population size, structure and dynamics on the one hand, social structure, action and change on the other. An examination of population processes and their relation to the social world.
Instructors: Sarah Brauner-Otto (Winter)
SOCI 370 Sociology: Gender and Development (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Exploration of the main development theories and discussion of how gender is placed within them, analysis of the practical application of development projects and discussion of how they affect gender dynamics, and examination of power relations between development agencies and developing countries. Examples from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America are used.
Instructors: Poulami Roychowdhury (Fall)
SOCI 446 Colonialism and Society (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Forms that colonialism took, its impact on colonial societies, and its modern legacies, focusing on overseas colonialism between 1600 and the 1970s.
Instructors: Matthew Lange (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 210 or permission from instructor.
SOCI 519 Gender and Globalization (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Focus on the diverse forces of globalization that impact the lives of men and women. Critical analysis of key theories and concepts implicated in the intersection of globalization processes with gender dynamisms.
Instructors: Elaine Weiner (Fall)
Prerequisite: SOCI 270 or permission of instructor.
SOCI 520 Migration and Immigrant Groups (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : Review of the major demographic, economic and sociological theories of internal and international migration. The main emphasis will be on empirical research on migration and immigrant groups.
Instructors: Zoua Vang (Fall)
Prerequisite: 15 credits in the Social Sciences
SOCI 555 Comparative Historical Sociology (3 credits)
Sociology (Arts) : The analysis of patterns of state and nation-building in historical and comparative perspectives with particular attention being given to methodology.
Instructors: Matthew Lange (Winter)
Restriction: Undergraduate students require permission of instructor
Within development studies, the environment has long been recognized as a vital determinant of development. More recently, many scholars have changed their environmental focus to emphasize sustainability. The courses in this stream recognize both: some courses consider how the environment can be exploited to promote human well-being while others consider how the environment must be respected to render development sustainable. Together, they highlight the delicate balance that must be attained between humans and their environments to make possible sustainable livelihoods.
ANTH 206 Environment and Culture (3 credits)
Anthropology : Introduction to ecological anthropology, focusing on social and cultural adaptations to different environments, human impact on the environment, cultural constructions of the environment, management of common resources, and conflict over the use of resources.
ANTH 418 Environment and Development (3 credits)
Anthropology : Advanced study of the environmental crisis in developing and advanced industrial nations, with emphasis on the social and cultural dimensions of natural resource management and environmental change. Each year, the seminar will focus on a particular set of issues, delineated by type of resource, geographic region, or analytical problem.
Prerequisite: ANTH 339, or ANTH 349, or SOCI 328, or GEOG 300, or GEOG 302, or permission of instructor
GEOG 302 Environmental Management 1 (3 credits)
Geography : An ecological analysis of the physical and biotic components of natural resource systems. Emphasis on scientific, technological and institutional aspects of environmental management. Study of the use of biological resources and of the impact of individual processes.
Instructors: Thomas C Meredith (Fall)
Prerequisite: Any 200-level course in Geography or MSE or BIOL 308 or permission of instructor.
GEOG 510 Humid Tropical Environments (3 credits)
Geography : Focus on the environmental and human spatial relationships in tropical rain forest and savanna landscapes. Human adaptation to variations within these landscapes through time and space. Biophysical constraints upon "development" in the modern era.
Prerequisite: GEOG 203 or equivalent and written permission of the instructor
Stream 4 - Nutrition
NUTR 501 Nutrition in Developing Countries (3 credits)
Offered by: Human Nutrition (Agricultural & Environmental Sciences)
Nutrition and Dietetics : This course will cover the major nutritional problems in developing countries. The focus will be on nutrition and health and emphasize young children and other vulnerable groups. The role of diet and disease for each major nutritional problem will be discussed.
Instructors: Grace Marquis (Fall)
2 lectures and one seminar
Prerequisite: For undergraduate students, consent of instructor required
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Whether we we like it or not, intuition plays a role in our personal and business decisions. While early theories of decision making focused on rationality as the main driving force, we understand now that this is not really the case. It is for this reason that intuition has been gaining attention from both Psychologists and managers/leaders within organisations.
An official definition: Intuition, or "gut feeling" is a feeling of knowing something or wanting to take a particular course of action, without knowing why (Hensman & Sadler-Smith, 2011). It is thought to result from unconscious processing that involves making connections between information. Also, it is thought to develop with experience because the more knowledge and experience a person has within a certain situation, the more he or she is able to link that information together and make associations. In fact, intuition is just a name for something that happens naturally in most people. But it is distinct from the following:
Instinct "Fast, reflexive responses that enable organisms to react to a threat and enhance its possibilities of survival" (Hodgkinson, Langan-Fox & Sadler-Smith, 2008). Instinctive responses are not based on prior learning and expertise.
Insight A sudden moment of realisation. Unlike intuition, this realisation often occurs after a period of conscious processing. (Hodgkinson et al., 2008)
Creativity The creation of novel and unusual ideas and outcomes. Whilst the early, pre-conscious stages of creative thinking may involve intuition, intuition is distinct from creativity as it is made up of ideas drawn from experience rather than necessarily novel ones (Hodgkinson et al., 2008)
MBTI Intuition "Personality preference for taking in information through a "sixth sense" and noticing what might be" (www.opp.com)
When people think of intuition, they often see it as unreliable, irrational and subject to biases, a contrast to rational and reasoned thinking. For example, Professor Daniel Kahneman's popular book, "Thinking Fast and Slow", contrasts two interlinked systems. The "slow" system refers to, rational and conscious thinking that takes effort whereas the "fast" system refers to unconscious but fast thinking. The message is that "fast" thinking is useful for making efficient decisions and is often the default way of thinking, but it is more subject to thinking errors and biases. This fast system incorporates aspects of intuitive thinking, such as making connections between information. Other researchers, similarly, speak of bounded rationality and our limited capacity to think rationally (Simon, 1987).
However, have we really stopped to think about the benefits of intuition, especially its relevance to businesses today? In particular, intuitive decision making has been shown to be important for decisions that:
– Need to be made quickly
– Have no right or wrong answer
– Require taking into account lots of different information
– Must be made with incomplete information (Agor, 1986, Woiceshyn, 2009)
These are decisions that executives make every day: strategic decisions, evolving decisions and, importantly, decisions made in VUCA situations (Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous). With changes in technology, social attitudes, social media, marketing and the economy, business decisions are often and increasingly made under these conditions. Intuition is therefore likely to add value for individuals making these types of decisions – value that we should be tapping into.
However, how would this work in practice? Unfortunately, it seems that improving decision making is not as simple as just using more or less intuition. Research is seriously lacking around whether cultivating intuition actually improves decisions. Psychologists have begun to explore the role of context and this is where the complexities lie. Using intuition is seen to be beneficial in some situations and not in others. For example, senior managers have reported that using intuition is linked to positive organisational performance in unstable environments but actually relates to negative performance in stable environments (Khatri & Ng, 2000). This indicates that intuition should be used cautiously in stable environments in which more reliable information is available to analyse and make a reasoned decision. In contrast, other researchers conclude the opposite; relying on intuition and heuristics may be useful for routine tasks, in order to speed up decisions, but these are unlikely to be useful in new and uncertain situations (Woiceshyn, 2009). Rob Briner, too, suggests that intuition should be used for every day, routine decisions but never for large decisions that are new and have lots at stake (www.cebma.org/presentations). Other aspects that affect the reliability of intuitions include personality, mood, importance of a decision and attitudes of others. The whole picture is rather complicated and, as of yet, incomplete.
As part of my own Master's degree research I investigated these complexities and interviewed 10 HR Directors (HRDs) on the subject. I was drawn to HR, because typically HR and people decisions are amongst the most likely to involve intuition.
The first-hand accounts gave a fresh perspective on the topic. Overall, characteristics of the individual, organisation and the decision itself all impacted on how intuition was used and the consequences of this. All 10 HRDs used gut feel in some form, mostly relying on both intuitive feelings and other sources of evidence, such as talking to others.
Especially interesting were HRDs insights into the value of intuition in their context. For example:
Intuition was a useful way of linking individual goals to the organisation's, in order to make a good decision. For example, when turning round a business on the brink of collapse, one individual used his gut feel to make immediate changes to the workplace and workforce based on his understanding of individuals' skill sets as well as his understanding of how the business needed to develop at that time. He put people into teams based on the products they were contributing rather than their function.
Social factors influenced intuition. Stakeholders and colleagues influenced decision making as HRDs have to provide a clear rationale for the decisions they make, so they needed to have evidence, not just gut feel.
Intuition gave HRDs confidence in their own decisions. For example, even though an individual looked for reasoning and evidence for a decision, they needed to feel that the decision was right too. Confidence also helped HRDs to convince others of their decision, as they were convinced themselves.
In practice, relying on a combination of gut feel and other sources of information seemed to be a way of acknowledging limitations whilst maximising the potential that intuition had. Like most practitioners, HRDs agreed that intuition must be used with caution, alongside other sources of evidence, and only in certain situations.
It is important to point out that these results only apply to this group of HRDs. Still, it gives us food for thought and opens us up to benefits of intuition that I hadn't considered before. For example, intuitive feelings can give a person, and others around him, confidence in a decision, and this in itself is valuable.
There is much more to do before wholeheartedly encouraging the use of intuition, such as investigating the contexts in which it improves decision making and organisational outcomes. However, I think it is time to look further than the reduction of thinking errors (as emphasised by Kahneman) and start to explore more widely, how we might maximise the potential of our own gut feelings.
Agor, W. H. (1986). The logic of intuition: How top executives make important decisions. Organizational Dynamics,14(3), 5-18.
Dane, E., & Pratt, M. G. (2007). Exploring intuition and its role in managerial decision making. Academy of Management Review, 32(1), 33-54.
Hensman, A., & Sadler-Smith, E. (2011). Intuitive decision making in banking and finance. European Management Journal, 29(1), 51-66.
Hodgkinson, G. P., Langan‐Fox, J., & Sadler‐Smith, E. (2008). Intuition: A fundamental bridging construct in the behavioural sciences. British Journal of Psychology, 99(1), 1-27.
Kahneman, D. (2011). Thinking, fast and slow. Macmillan.
Khatri, N., & Ng, H. A. (2000). The role of intuition in strategic decision making. Human Relations, 53(1), 57-86.
Simon, H. A. (1987). Making management decisions: The role of intuition and emotion. The Academy of Management Executive, 1(1), 57-64.
Woiceshyn, J. (2009). Lessons from "good minds": How CEOs use intuition, analysis and guiding principles to make strategic decisions. Long Range Planning, 42(3), 298-319.
www.cebma.org/presentations
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Nikhita Dost bio
Nikhita is a Psychologist and Coach. She currently works at Human Systems (Business Psychologists) Ltd, a global consultancy specialising in executive coaching, training and development. She is also a strategy coach with Genius Within Ltd. Nikhita is an Oxford graduate and gained a distinction in her Organisational Psychology MSc research on intuition and executive decision making.


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WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 22: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos arrives to testify before a House House Education and the Workforce Committee on Capitol Hill, May 22, 2018 in Washington, DC. The hearing focus is on examining the policies and priorities of the U.S. Department of Education. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Betsy DeVos was back before Congress Tuesday.
The education secretary, who drew national attention at her confirmation hearing, fielded questions from testy Democrats who pressed her on proposed federal education cuts, expanded charter and voucher programs, and school discipline. She was there to defend the administration's budget proposal, which, if recent history is any guide, will largely be ignored by Congress.
The exchanges underscored long-standing differences between DeVos and progressives skeptical of her educational philosophy.
As DeVos restated her positions on school choice initiatives and skepticism of spending more money on education, she also reprised a number of misleading claims.
DeVos suggests increased spending isn't helping students, but recent research says otherwise
"Over the past 40 years, federal taxpayer spending on education has increased about 180 percent, amounting to over $1.2 trillion cumulatively. And yet, we're still 24th in reading, 25th in science, and 40th in math when compared to the rest of the world," DeVos said. "Doing the same thing — and more of it — won't bring about new results."
This idea, that more money won't improve academic results, is a common theme for DeVos. But it's hard to square it with a substantial body of recent research that has connected more spending to better academic outcomes, both nationwide and in specific states.
And while it is true that spending has increased in inflation adjusted dollars, K-12 education spending as a percent of the country's GDP has been fairly steady over time, with occasional ebbs and flows.
Of course, that doesn't mean that every program that costs money has been proven successful. DeVos is on firmer ground citing specific programs that have fallen short, like the Obama-era school turnaround program.
DeVos says the vast majority of today's jobs will be gone in several years, but that's unrealistic — and based on very little evidence
In an exchange with Rep. Andy Harris, a Maryland Republican, DeVos described the "the fact that a kindergartener today can look forward to entering a workforce where 85 percent of the jobs don't yet exist."
We've looked into this one, which has been made by other prominent leaders, and found it lacks any firm basis. A report from Institute for the Future makes the claim, but it's not based on any rigorous analysis. Other citations lead only to defunct websites, unsourced "expert" claims, or YouTube videos.
More credible estimates, based on historical data, suggest that by 2030 only 8 or 9 percent of occupations will be novel. Tellingly, DeVos has repeated different iterations of the same idea: In 2017, she said 65 percent of the jobs of today would vanish by the time kindergarteners reach the workforce. It's not clear what made her up the estimate to 85 percent.
DeVos says schools are "deteriorating," but there's not much data to back that up
DeVos also suggested that American education has gotten worse since the federal Department of Education was created in 1979, echoing a comment made by Rep. Harris. "I know we were much higher in the rankings and we've definitely continued to deteriorate," she said.
It's not clear what she was referring to. In her opening remarks referring to the U.S.'s middling education rankings, she relied on results of the PISA exam. But that was first administered in 2000. It's unclear that the U.S. ever ranked highly on older international exams.
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Homeless Solutions were the topic. Thursday night was chilly at Whitworth college but the lecture hall was warm and full of concerned local residents. There weren't many seats left open. New Hope Resource Center in Colbert WA invited renowned architect/author, Charles Durrett to speak. He began by pointing out that 206 homeless people died last year in Spokane. The deaths aren't the only problem, there are significant additional costs to our community each year because of homelessness. Costs of $30-60k per homeless person are incurred for increased emergency medical services, law enforcement, and incarceration events. Solving the homeless problem may not be free of charge, but, doing something about it now makes a lot of sense.
Durrett shared about many of the successful "village" projects he has designed around the world. These communities have produced so many positive outcomes. He shared the grassroots strategies used to enable "doing something now" about homelessness, instead of waiting for a bureaucracy to move on to finding a solution.
Communities voluntarily have worked together to handle finances, planning, and permits, along with materials and labor costs. Working together they have successfully built communities where homeless people have a roof over their heads with a locking door. By providing a safe place to live we allow a person to connect with neighbors and build a community. "Villages" become a place of transition where disconnected homeless people can manage themselves, and then become part of society again.
Charles Durrett revealed methods to solve homelessness now. He talked with many people afterward. We left with a mood full of hope and the motivation to step out and make a difference. Become a part of Homeless Solutions in Spokane WA, and attend a public meeting tomorrow at the North Spokane County Library starting at 9:30 am.
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Texting while driving remains a commonplace and dangerous practice. The New York Times suggests it is actually getting worse with drivers not only texting, but taking selfies and using other apps and social media sites while on the road. The article estimates road fatalities were up 8% from 2014-2015 due to the increase in distracted driving.
Concern is growing as the problem rises, despite laws in place in most states to ban cell phone use and texting by drivers, and efforts by public service campaigns to increase awareness for this issue. The New York Times article describes lawmakers' and public health experts' new plans to conquer this widespread issue. They are getting creative and looking at ways to deter drivers from texting while driving.
One idea that is getting significant attention is a roadside test called the "Textalyzer", introduced by lobbyists from New York. The New York Times article describes that the Textalyzer, the digital sister of the Breathalyzer, would be used by officers at the scene of a crash to tap into the operating system of the involved drivers' phones to look at recent activity. The goal would be to determine if the driver had been using their phone to engage in activity against the New York hands-free driving laws, such as text, email, etc. It would determine if the phone was recently in use. If a driver refused to hand over their phone to be analyzed by the Textalyzer, they could face drivers' license suspension or other penalties.
The article acknowledges that this proposed legislation is controversial, in terms of becoming law, and faces privacy concerns and other potential obstacles. The argument is that the Textalyzer would show whether phones were recently in use without revealing private information, such as the content of text messages, etc. However, many will find this hard to believe and/or still a significant breach of privacy. The future of the Textalyzer remains to be seen, but it is certainly catching people's attention!
The legislation was proposed by a group of lobbyists known as DORCs, Distracted Operators Risk Casualties with the goals of raising awareness significantly around the dangerousness of distracted driving, actually deterring people from engaging in the practice, and ultimately saving lives. The thought is that if this legislation does pass in New York it could easily spread to other states, similar to the way New York paved the way for hands-free laws in other nationwide.
Please see our recent blog posting about distracted driving: April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Our post highlights Washington State's existing laws around cell phone use and texting while driving. Pledge to make a commitment to be part of the effort to end distracted driving, in order to protect the lives of ourselves and the people around us. One text or call could wreck it all!


This week, instead of our customary episode of Encouraging Christian Fathers, I'm releasing part 2 of a 4-part series by David Pawson to you.
David has a real burden for men and I share his burden. I've found this series to be extremely impactful to me and I hope you find it encouraging and impactful in your life.


I have a non-fiction piece, "<sarcasm><Adventures In Gaming</sarcasm>" in this upcoming anthology…!
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How does it work? Which features it has?
- walkable/non walkable zones: it's based on tiled? has an specific map?
Also, how's the map defined? I guess you have a set of screens linked to the screens you can go to. The cove has more than one screen and weird links between them, right?
Some minor bugs/glitches: I think sprites are shown 1 pixel below they should. And there should be a DISSCR/ENASCR (or at least, disable the sprites) when changing screens: sometimes, during one frame, you see the new screen but the sprites in the old position.
I'd love to see how this engine grows, and evolves, and brings us some great games!
I think this kind of games will be never created in msx. I was wrong. Easy to play an addictive, children will love it.
Most than the game itself, the value of this entry is the engine and the possibilities it brings. It's quite original in the MSX world and I hope to play bigger and better games out of this engine in a near future! Good work!
Yes, I also think the engine is greater than the game itself, and hope for MSX adventure games with this (improved)engine in the future. It is the reason I've put Stan The Dreamer in my top 3.
An adventure game!! ... I like adventure games!! I'm sorry but I hasn't been able to advance to much.
As some other people say, I think the most important thing is that is a first step toward to create a big adventure game.
I would like to see a big adventure of this kind!!
Congratulations and continue with the good work!!
Great one! I hope, as some others already pointed out, that you can reuse this adventure engine, and make something a bit bigger. Really loved it, but it needed music, and more detailed story and gfx to shine a bit more into the contest. Anyway, a really promising approach, and something we are not use to see on MSX. Can't wait to see what you can come up with this adventure engine, keep up the good work! and congrats for the release!
This is another game that it has surprised me, it's a kind of game not usually seen in MSX, but it's shame the 16 kbs size limit, because with a bigger size, the adventure would be a lot better.
I really like to see that point and click adventure games are possible on MSX-1! The game itself is not as important as the fact that we have now a nice engine for point and click games. Congrats!
However, as this is a game contest and not a game-engine contest, I must say that the game itself is not one of my favourites.
Regarding the engine, I think it should be adapted to fit more into the MSX capabilities. For example, clicking to move the player to a certain area is not good at all unless a path-finding algorithm is implemented or pre-computed paths are stored. Also, even if mouse can be used, the engine shoud pay more attention to keyboard-based users.
Firstly, the engine it's very good and is a solid base to make more games like this. I like a lot graphics, agility and simplicity to control the scene. But I played some games and always I loose in the caveeeeee! One time I found the key but discouraged me that it seems random and difficult to make a map of the cave. I played other game hours later and I didn't remember the combination of movements and I cannot find it again. With an easier cave to let me play more and any more music it should be my favorite game without doubt. I will be expectant to next games with this engine!
I played other game hours later and I didn't remember the combination of movements and I cannot find it again.
I must say, I have the cave mapped in my mind. First time, yeh, it was a bit complicated. Second time it was fast, and now I remember the exact path even after been 2 days without playing it. So it's not so hard. And no, don't ask Play.
Like I said on the other post of this thread: 16kB its too small for a game like this.
With 16kB, the work realized on this game is very good... but not enough. Im sure that this game engine is going to give us very good adventure games, sure.
By the way, the game doesnt works on Casio PV-7, something strange happens with sprites, its like a dirty cartridge glitch. The engine works, but the sprites on screen seems crazy.