Sample Courses

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PHYS 302 - Vibrations and Waves

The purpose of this course is to enable you to understand oscillations and wave phenomena in several domains. Much of the course will focus on mechanical waves and systems since the basic laws of mechanics should already be familiar to you. We will discuss general aspects of waves that are common to electromagnetic waves, but will not examine the basic laws allowing electromagnetic waves to exist in classical physics. We will also discuss quantum mechanical waves, again without discussing the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics underlying a view of the world in which waves are found in unexpected places.

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IDRL 408 - Workplace Injury

Industrial Relations 408: Workplace Injury is a three-credit directed reading course for senior undergraduate students. It provides an in-depth examination of the political economy of workplace injury, both in Canada and in the developing world. You will engage directly with the academic literature on workplace injury and undertake scholarly writing, including a book review and literature review.

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Mobile ESL

This is a course of lessons and practice on the system of English. It is divided into eighty-six sections. Each section covers an area of basic grammar and contains a number of exercises. The exercises are not all the same length. Some exercises have only five questions, but others have up to nine questions. This is because some areas of grammar are more important than others. This course tests your knowledge of English grammar and, more importantly, it gives you practice in using your knowledge to make correct and appropriate sentences. When you do the exercises, you will see that grammar is not just a game. Grammar has meaning - if you change some of the grammar in a sentence, you also change its meaning.

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Updated July 17, 2012