Looking for electives?
Let's have here a list of obscure, interesting electives people can take. Pysch, history, philosophy, languages are mostly obvious. Let's talk about the other ones that are neat.
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HTM 4050 Wine and Oenology - Winter [0.5]
"This course provides students with knowledge about the wine industry and will emphasize knowledge about product, purchasing, pricing, and service."
So, we talk about wine. How it's made, where it's made, why it costs as much as it does, how to say whether a wine is good and why, how to store & serve it in a restaurant, matching it with food... there's so much content. You'll be studying history, geography and chemistry the whole time.
Do you get to drink the wine: Yes. The lab is a 2-hour tasting sessions, where you're served anywhere from 6 to 15 different wines, and you evaluate them for quality - there is a system for this! In real life, you're expected to spit the wine out after sipping it, and you're provided with a bucket at the table, but nobody really minds if you swallow what you're given.
Pre-reqs: 9.0 credits, age >= 19. You're technically supposed to be in the B.Comm program, but nobody really cares if you talk to Valerie Allen, the program counsellor. Her office is in MACS 206.
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HTM 3030 Beverage Management - Fall [0.5]
"This course provides students with knowledge of the beer, spirit, wine, coffee and soft drink industries and their importance in the hospitality environment. Course topics will include product characteristics, purchasing, pricing, control, marketing and promotion, trends and the responsible service of alcoholic beverages."
I haven't taken this one, but I assume it's similar to 4050 above. The history of colas, coffees, booze, and how to mix them together. There's probably going to be two whole weeks devoted to Prohibition. I expect that there will also be a section on bartending, and how to run a bar in a restaurant.
Do you get to drink: Yes. Age is one of the pre-reqs, so I'm certain you get to drink during the spirit tastings. Whether to get to try and mix your own drinks, and whether you're allowed to drink your failures, is a different question.
Pre-reqs: 9.0 credits, age >= 19, registered in B.Comm. Talk to Valerie Allen.
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What was the name of that
What was the name of that philosophy course you took last year?
Symbolic Logic or some such title?
2nd year H.B.Comp
CPES SC VP Social
Office hours W10
Tuesday 1500-1600
Thursday 0930-1030
SCIE 1505
"Elementary Symbolic
"Elementary Symbolic Logic"... But I would hardly call it "obscure" and "interesting" at this point.
PHIL 2110 Elementary
PHIL 2110 Elementary Symbolic Logic - Winter [0.5]
"This course studies the basic principles and techniques of formal logic. The analysis of the logical structure of sentences and arguments is explored, together with the fundamental principles of elementary sentential logic and quantification."
We break a sentence apart by clauses, and do algebra on them, that's really all this is. We don't care about whether the clauses make a coherent argument, we just manipulate them using well-known rules. This is similar to 1910 (I think, I was never in 1910). Bird course. It's made much more amusing by the fact that this course is the philosophy program's version of 2750 :).
ENVB*2210 Introductory
ENVB*2210 Introductory Apiculture F,W (3-0) [0.50]
"This course is designed to acquaint the student with the broad field of beekeeping. It will include honey bee biology and behaviour, management for honey production, products of the hive, pests and enemies and the value of bees as pollinators of agricultural crops."
You heard me... Beekeeping.
This is a biology-based course, so don't take it unless you enjoy that stuff. I know a few people who have taken it, and they enjoyed it, since it's really different from most courses that the University offers... but it's no cakewalk, so don't expect it to be!
Pre-reqs: None. That's right: zip!