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This course provides a general overview of the fundamentals of climate change while looking into terminology, concepts, and causes of climate change. This introduces the direct and indirect effect of climate change on the whole environment and society, including vulnerable coastal ecosystems and livelihoods. The students will learn about the climate change mitigation and adaptation techniques, strategies, and policies to ensure quality of life, food security, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote sustainability through ecofriendly land use management, urban planning and renewable energy uses. The course also introduces the effects of climate change on human and animal health and discusses strategies to adapt to climate impacts and extremes. Three hours lecture per week. 09-09-2025-02-12-2025 Lecture Tuesday 05:30PM - 08:15PM, Irving Chemistry Ctr, Room 104

This course concentrates on effective procedures for the statistical estimation and testing of key parameters in economic models. Remedies are developed for problems associated with model specification. Multicollinearity, serial correlation, heteroscedasticity, simultaneous equations, and forecasting. 08-09-2025-01-12-2025 Lecture Monday 11:30AM - 02:15PM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 115

This course introduces philosophical inquiry and explores questions such as: How is the mind connected to the body? What is it to know something? How does scientific knowledge differ from other forms of knowledge? Is there an external world that exists independently of human perception and cognition and if so, do we have access to it? How do we figure out what is morally right or wrong? What is justice? Is there a universal human nature? How do religious beliefs differ from other types of beliefs? What are some of the traditional arguments regarding the existence of God? Lectures: Three hours a week. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 04:00PM - 05:15PM, SDU Main Bldg, Room 213

This course provides students with an overview of the foundations and practice of social work. Students will gain a comprehensive understanding of the historical development of social work in Canada, what social workers do, the setting and methods used as part of social work and the opportunities available to professionally trained social workers. The course includes an evaluation of emerging issues and future directions. Three hours a week. 03-09-2025-04-12-2025 Web Days to be Announced, Times to be Announced, Room to be Announced

This course introduces many of the main concepts within the field of sociology such as culture, socialization, norms, social roles, values, deviance, and social structure. In addition, this course utilizes the basic concepts and perspectives in sociology to examine critically and to interpret the kinds of interaction experienced in social institutions such as the economy, the polity, the family, education, and religion. Three hours a week. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 02:30PM - 03:45PM, Duffy Research Ctr, Room 212

This course provides an introduction to the economic analysis of consumer and producer behaviour. Of particular concern is the role of the market in the allocation of resources and the distribution of income, and how these outcomes are affected by imperfections in the market system and by government policy. Three hours a week. 04-09-2025-04-12-2025 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 05:30PM - 06:45PM, Performing Arts Ctr, Room 110S

This course provides an introduction to the economic analysis of consumer and producer behaviour. Of particular concern is the role of the market in the allocation of resources and the distribution of income, and how these outcomes are affected by imperfections in the market system and by government policy. Three hours a week. 03-09-2025-04-12-2025 Web Days to be Announced, Times to be Announced, Room to be Announced

Spanish 1010 is intended for students with no knowledge of Spanish. The course gives students solid grounding in the fundamentals of the Spanish language by engaging them, in both classroom and language laboratory settings, in communicative use of the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Upon successful completion of the course, students obtain a comprehensive outline of Spanish grammar and are able to sustain a conversation on a variety of daily topics. NOTE: This course may not be taken for credit if any of the following have already been successfully completed: SPAN-1020, SPAN-2010, SPAN-2020, SPAN-3010, SPAN-3020, SPAN-3150, SPAN-4010, or SPAN-4020. Three hours a week plus lab. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 09:30AM - 10:20AM, Memorial Hall, Room 417

The main objective of this course is to introduce the basic concepts of descriptive statistics, and statistical inference, to students outside of SMCS. Topics include frequency distributions, descriptive statistics, rules of probability, discrete and continuous probability distributions, random sampling and sampling distributions, confidence intervals, one- and two-tail tests of hypotheses, and correlation and linear regression. PREREQUISITE: Grade XII academic Mathematics. Three lecture hours per week NOTE: Credit will not be allowed for Statistics 1210 if a student has received credit for any of the following courses: Business 2510, Education 4810, Psychology 2710 and Sociology 3320. Credit for Statistics 1210 will not be allowed if taken concurrent with or subsequent to Statistics 1910. 03-09-2025-03-12-2025 Lecture Monday, Wednesday 02:30PM - 03:45PM, Kelley Memorial Bldg, Room 237