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This seminar-based course explores the unique possibilities that liturgies offer to bring restoration, hope and grace in urban communities. Students will explore the biblical and theological principles of liturgy and challenges and opportunities that liturgies offer the church as God’s agent for reconciliation in a fallen world. Students will study and compose a variety of contextualized liturgies using a blend of ancient-future practices that draw from the deep tradition of the Church and the richness of the arts to communicate God’s truth, hope and grace.
Prerequisites:
Foundations of Mission and Ministry I
REL‑253
This course examines biblical and theological foundations for missions and ministry, historical developments in the theory and practice of missions, and issues pertaining to the contextualization of the gospel in the Western and global church.
REL‑253 Foundations of Mission and Ministry I;
Spiritual Formation for Ministry
REL‑255
This course seeks to ground students in an understanding of ministry shaped by Trinitarian theology. Furthermore, it offers a variety of tools to enable students to develop spiritual practices drawn from ancient, tested traditions to encourage a balanced spiritual life that can sustain the challenges and joys of ministry.
REL‑255 Spiritual Formation for Ministry
This course introduces students to logic–both deduction and induction–and develops critical thinking skills in relation to arguments and their evaluation. Students will examine the role of worldview in relation to logic and arguments and learn to compose cogent written arguments. The course will cover such topics as the importance of language, logical fallacies, sources of authority, and elementary philosophical concepts and categories.
Students will demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the educational research process through the completion of a Major Research Project (MRP). Under the supervision of a faculty supervisor, students will engage in data collection, analysis interpretation and completion of their MRP. Upon completion of the MRP, an oral presentation is made to the supervisor and one additional assessor who may be external to Redeemer. All MRPs will be published in electronic form in the Peter Turkstra Library.
This seminar course aims to expand students鈥 research knowledge and skills. Students will develop a proposal for a Major Research Project (MRP) in which they will clearly articulate their research questions, the academic and personal/professional context of the questions, and determine the research methods appropriate to the proposed investigation. If required, students will seek clearance from the Research Ethics Committee.
Discover how management control systems direct behaviour towards achievement of organizational strategies and goals. Design and evaluate control systems. Develop effective budgeting systems, incentive systems, and corporate governance systems. Evaluate progress towards organizational goals using a broad range of short- and long-term measures.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Managerial Accounting
BUS‑204
Apply basic tools to determine what it costs to deliver products and services, what activities drive costs up or down in your business, what volume of business you need to achieve your desired level of profit, and what costs are relevant for making decisions about special orders, make or buy decisions, product pricing, and capital investments. Prepare and use budgets to translate your business goals into monetary terms.
BUS‑204 Introduction to Managerial Accounting
Discover the strategic role of information technology and management information systems in organizations. Learn about hardware and software. Gather, analyze, and use data, information, and knowledge to make well-informed business decisions.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Business
BUS‑121
Discover the crucial role business plays in your life as a consumer and employee. Relate the purpose and necessity of profit to a business鈥檚 goals for employees, suppliers, the community, the environment, and other stakeholders. Use effective marketing, financial management, and people strategies, combined with the right form of business ownership, to achieve those goals.
BUS‑121 Introduction to Business Year 2 standing
Create powerful and effective marketing campaigns that integrate a variety of media. Hone your skills by developing an integrated marketing communications plan for a client using appropriate advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, sales promotion, and public relations tools.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Marketing
BUS‑255
Discover how organizations create value and connect with customers through relationships and technology. Examine market segmentation, select a target market, position a company in relation to the competition, analyze new product development and brand management strategies, and develop an effective marketing mix (e.g., product, place, promotion, pricing).
BUS‑255 Introduction to Marketing Students in the Marketing or Management Concentration should take this course in Year 3
Apply a wide range of marketing concepts in real business situations using the case method and a client project. Analyze marketing opportunities and challenges in a variety of different industries, develop alternative marketing strategies, and select an effective marketing strategy.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Marketing
BUS‑255
Discover how organizations create value and connect with customers through relationships and technology. Examine market segmentation, select a target market, position a company in relation to the competition, analyze new product development and brand management strategies, and develop an effective marketing mix (e.g., product, place, promotion, pricing).
BUS‑255 Introduction to Marketing;
Marketing Communications
BUS‑350
Create powerful and effective marketing campaigns that integrate a variety of media. Hone your skills by developing an integrated marketing communications plan for a client using appropriate advertising, personal selling, direct marketing, sales promotion, and public relations tools.
BUS‑350 Marketing Communications
An introduction to mathematical modelling in biology focusing on difference and differential equations, covering applications from population models to spread of diseases. A key focus of the course will be to develop and interpret mathematical models of health issues in populations, including disease spread and vaccination consideration.
Prerequisites:
Introductory Linear Algebra
MAT‑126
A study of systems of linear equations, determinants, vector algebra, n-dimensional vector spaces, linear transformations, and the eigenvalue problem. This course meets 4 hours a week.
MAT‑126 Introductory Linear Algebra;
Differential Equations
MAT‑231
An introduction to solutions and applications of ordinary differential equations. Laplace transforms, series solutions, and partial differential equations are also discussed.
MAT‑231 Differential Equations MAT-201 or 215 is recommended
A course in the moral dimensions of communication, with special attention given to working in communication and media professions. The course cultivates a Christian understanding of the topic through attention to theological and philosophical issues and through wrestling with a range of cases and controversies.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Media and Communications
MCS‑121
This course introduces students to the rise of mass media and communication and its impact and influence on modern society. Basic media forms and their function in society will be surveyed and students will develop a Christian perspective on media and its role in both the production and consumption of culture. Students will examine the application of a Reformed Christian worldview to understanding communication
and communication-related vocations. The relationship between Christianity and professional communication, including professions in the media, will be discussed.
MCS‑121 Introduction to Media and Communications Year 3 or 4 standing. MCS-302 is the Capstone Course for the MCS major and is required in the 3rd or 4th year.
An overview of media law in Canada, including defamation, publication bans, intellectual property, releases, etc. for students intending a career in media production or journalism. Materials fee applies.
Prerequisites:
Introduction to Media Production
MCS‑101
An introductory course in the art and craft of video production. Coming to understand
film as a method of storytelling, students learn and practice film aesthetics
and techniques, including all the elements of preproduction, production, and
postproduction. Students will collaborate to plan, shoot, and edit short videos while
learning the basics of filmmaking equipment and software. Students will reflect on the
nature of film and the practice of filmmaking through a faith lens. Materials fee applies.
MCS‑101 Introduction to Media Production;
Introduction to Media and Communications
MCS‑121
This course introduces students to the rise of mass media and communication and its impact and influence on modern society. Basic media forms and their function in society will be surveyed and students will develop a Christian perspective on media and its role in both the production and consumption of culture. Students will examine the application of a Reformed Christian worldview to understanding communication
and communication-related vocations. The relationship between Christianity and professional communication, including professions in the media, will be discussed.
MCS‑121 Introduction to Media and Communications
This course explores the development of Western philosophy in two phases. The first phase takes us from the collapse of the Roman Empire and St. Augustine through to the development of the medieval university and Thomas Aquinas. The second phase explores key thinkers coming out of the 鈥渢hree Rs鈥 – the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution – focusing especially on Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and Locke.
This course explores the development of Western philosophy in two phases. The first phase takes us from the collapse of the Roman Empire and St. Augustine through to the development of the medieval university and Thomas Aquinas. The second phase explores key thinkers coming out of the 鈥渢hree Rs鈥 – the Renaissance, Reformation, and Scientific Revolution – focusing especially on Machiavelli, Hobbes, Descartes, and Locke.
A study of the poetry and prose of medieval England, with special attention to the old English Beowulf and the Middle English works of Chaucer and the Gawain-Poet. Students will consider how contemporary research and literary-critical methods open up these ancient texts and reinvigorate their reception among readers in the present.
Prerequisites:
ENG-257 or 261
This course provides an overview of the history of Europe from the breakdown of the western Roman empire to the Renaissance, covering religious, intellectual, artistic, political, and social developments.
Prerequisites:
Western Culture & Tradition I
HUM‑110
This course explores foundational themes in the story of Western culture from its classical origins to the Renaissance through history, philosophy, literature, and the fine arts.
HUM‑110 Western Culture & Tradition I
Students will study the nature, constitution, and structure of reality. They will discuss grand theories of everything, such as metaphysical materialism, idealism, and metaphysical dualism. They will also discuss the differences between existence and essence and between substance, properties, accidents, and bundles. The course will clarify important distinctions between metaphysical realism and nominalism and between universals and particulars. Topics will extend to fundamental issues about personal identity, the nature of eternity and time, necessity and possibility, and others.
Prerequisites:
The Story of Philosophy
PHL‑121
鈥淧hilosophy,鈥 according to Socrates, 鈥渂egins with wonder.鈥 In this course, we will survey fundamental metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues raised by this 鈥渟tory that began with wonder,鈥 starting with the quest of the ancient Egyptians, Indians, and Chinese and then moving on to the 鈥楤ig Questions鈥 asked by the ancient Greeks, medieval Christians, and other modern and contemporary Western thinkers.
PHL‑121 The Story of Philosophy;
Logic
PHL‑122
This course introduces students to logic–both deduction and induction–and develops critical thinking skills in relation to arguments and their evaluation. Students will examine the role of worldview in relation to logic and arguments and learn to compose cogent written arguments. The course will cover such topics as the importance of language, logical fallacies, sources of authority, and elementary philosophical concepts and categories.
PHL‑122 Logic
An introductory course which provides an understanding of microbial structure and biochemistry and includes practical experience in the handling and maintenance of microbial cultures. Topics include the classification and identification of microorganisms, the role of micro-organisms in health and disease, and the application of microbial processes in industry. Includes a weekly three-hour lab. Materials fee applies.
Prerequisites:
Cell and Molecular Biology
BIO‑242
A study of the structure and function of cells as the fundamental building units of living organisms. Topics include, but are not restricted to the molecular constituents of cells, major cell organelles, endo/exocytosis, intracellular signalling, cell growth and metabolism and special cell functions. Methods of investigation will be examined throughout the course and the development of hypotheses and theories will be placed in a historical and contemporary context. Includes a weekly three-hour lab. Materials fee applies.
BIO‑242 Cell and Molecular Biology
This course is an intensive study of the major poetry and prose of John Milton (1608-1674), following the arc of Milton鈥檚 career against the background of the religious, political, and literary controversies of the seventeenth century. Together with shorter poems and selections of prose, students will be studying A Maske, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Prerequisites:
ENG-342 or 343 or permission of the instructor (Recommended)
This course will survey theoretical and empirical research in the study of learning sciences focusing on recent and ongoing studies of memory, attention, language and social/emotional development. Participants will examine research literature from multiple fields in the brain sciences, including cognitive science, experimental psychology and neuroscience through a lens of wonder, awe and reverence of God鈥檚 created humanity. This course will explore how such knowledge can be and is being applied to support the learning needs of all including the neurodivergent student, and those whose educational needs may not be met through conventional approaches.
A seminar course exploring important trends in modern and contemporary systematic theology. Students will critically engage major theological concepts, including those from within the Reformed tradition, that shape Christian thought and life today.
Prerequisites:
Reformed Theology
REL‑251
A study of the central doctrines of Reformed theology, this course will survey the loci of systematic theology, as rooted in the Bible, formulated by key theologians, including John Calvin and Herman Bavinck, and summarized in the ecumenical creeds and Reformed confessions. Students will have an opportunity to study the historical development of these theological doctrines, as well as their contemporary application.
REL‑251 Reformed Theology;
REL-449 is the Capstone Course for the Honours Ministry Major and is required for all honours majors in the 4th year.
or permission of the instructor
The course traces artistic expression from romanticism to modernism, post-modernism and contemporary art. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of the visual arts as expressions of their philosophical, theoretical, historical, and cultural context.
The course traces artistic expression from romanticism to modernism, post-modernism and contemporary art. Emphasis is placed on the understanding of the visual arts as expressions of their philosophical, theoretical, historical, and cultural context.
A study of modern and contemporary Canadian short stories and novels, with a focus
on a specific genre, theme, cultural context or region.
Prerequisites:
ENG-222 or 322; Year 4 standing or permission of the instructor
A literary and theoretical exploration of the wide variety of styles and genres of poetry presently being written in Canada. As part of their coursework, students will attend readings in local venues, and will host the Redeemer poets at Redeemer.
Prerequisites:
ENG-222 or 322; Year 4 standing or permission of the instructor
A study of basic concepts of euclidean and non-euclidean geometry in historical context.
Prerequisites:
Any MAT-200-level course except MAT-201. MAT-321 is the Capstone Course
for the Mathematics Department and is required for all majors in the 3rd or 4th year.