This course covers five major areas: the architectural profession, legal and ethical responsibilities, modes of practice, professional contracts, and project management. 

This course covers five major areas: the architectural profession, legal and ethical responsibilities, modes of practice, professional contracts, and project management. 

AC3060H - 

ARC3100H - ARC3125H: Rotating electives on the theme of Urban Design. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC3200H - ARC3225H: Rotating electives on the theme of Architecture and Health. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC3400H - ARC3425H: Rotating electives on the theme of Architecture and Technology. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC3500H - ARC3525H: Rotating electives on the theme of Architecture and Health. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC3600H - ARC3625H: Rotating electives on the theme of Architecture and Health. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC3700H - ARC3725H: Rotating electives on themes in Architecture. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

ARC4500H - ARC4510H: Rotating electives on the theme of professional practice in design. For current offerings please see faculty website. 

The core seminar examines the dynamics of transformation in the Asia-Pacific in relation to a number of theoretical debates in history and the social sciences. The seminar is required of graduate students in the Collaborate Master's Specialization in Contemporary East and Southeast Asian Studies.

This is an independent research course. Please contact the Asian Institute for enrolment eligibility and procedures.

This is an independent research course. Please contact the Asian Institute for enrolment eligibility and procedures.

This upper-level seminar will introduce students to the interdisciplinary study of popular culture in Asia through a focus on public events. Readings about all kinds of performances, including ritual, popular protest, festivals, sports, cinema, television, digital media events, and the performing arts will help students learn methodological tools to interpret the politics and meanings of public culture as it articulates with class, ethnicity, religious community, gender, and caste. The course will furthermore familiarize students with a range of theoretical lenses for conceptualizing the different meanings of the "event" and the "public" from a perspective grounded in the histories of South Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and their diasporas.

This course explores the rise of Asia and its integration into the new global economy (labour, capitalism, knowledge economy, economic nationalism, inequality, gender, the meaning of capitalism, democracy, among others), exposing students to diverse disciplinary perspectives. Geographical coverage is pan-Asian, including East, Southeast, and South Asia.

This course explores the far-reaching social, political, and cultural transformations in modern East, Southeast, and South Asia, focusing on the twentieth-century revolutionary histories and struggles to establish modern nation-states. The course adopts a topical approach within a chronological and comparative framework to highlight major historical movements and theoretical issues significant to the Asian experience.

Course content varies in accordance with the interest of the instructor. Check the Contemporary Asian Studies website for an updated description.

Stellar astrophyiscs — the success story of 20th century astronomy — requires a synthesis of most of basic physics (thermodynamics, quantum mechanics, and nuclear physics). It underlies nearly all of astronomy, from reionisation to galaxy evolution, from interstellar matter to planets, and from supernovae and planetary nebulae to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. In this course, we will review these successes (roughly first four weeks) and then discuss current topics and remaining puzzles (in four two-week series, detailed content depending on interest).

This course provides an introduction to galaxies and their properties. The focus of the course is on the physical understanding of the fundamental processes that shape galaxies and their constituents and much attention will go to various manifestations of the gravitational force, arguably the most important force shaping galaxies. We will also focus on learning the basic theoretical tools and observational data sets used in the study of galaxies.

This graduate course is for students interested in cosmology. The goal of this course is to provide a more complete coverage of cosmology, and to develop concepts to the point of calculation. The topics to be covered include a brief introduction to relevant concepts from General Relativity, we will cover our model of an isotropic, homogeneous, expanding Universe, inflation, the origin and nature of the Cosmic Microwave background, Big-Bang Nucleosynthesis and baryogenesis, dark matter, linear perturbation theory, large-scale structure beyond linear perturbation theory, and dark energy.

This course discusses the fundamental physical processes that produce and modify radiation from astrophysical sources. The astrophysical contexts within which these processes occur will also be discussed. The focus is on connecting basic electromagnetism theory with astrophysical observations.

A research course consisting of a project normally completed in the May-to-August timeframe. Students should discuss possible projects with a number of potential supervisors and should remember that the intention is that they have experience in at least two distinct areas of research by the time they have completed the PhD degree. The project should lead to a research paper which is presented to a committee consisting of the supervisor, the course coordinator, and another faculty member. Students are expected to distribute a copy of of their research paper to the committee at least a week in advance of their formal presentation. It is expected that the research will be completed in time for the paper to be produced and defended by the end of September of the latest. The grade for the course will be determined both by the quality of the research paper and its defense. While it is not a requirement, it is expected that the quality of the research will be such that it could lead to a published paper.

This is the first in a two-part series of directed research projects for first-year graduate students in the direct-entry PhD program. It serves as an introduction to graduate research, and it is also meant to help graduate students integrate into the Department, and introduce them to potential advisors for the 1501Y and next (AST1500Y) research project. Another goal is to provide experience and advice on scientific expression and communication, helping to develop a 'scientist's toolkit' for future success.

In the first two months, to learn about research being undertaken in the department, a series of informal seminars is held with various faculty members (with style depending on their preference). Each of these will include a reading assignment.

Students will identify and contact potential research advisors, and should have chosen their supervisor by early November. Any research faculty member of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics (DAA), Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), the Centre for Planetary Sciences (CPS), or Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, can serve as an advisor.

The course instructor will help match students to advisors, but the most effective strategy is to meet with potential advisors after preliminary email contacts.

The research project spans the fall and winter sessions. The project should be feasible and interesting, clearly defined, and ultimately publishable.

This class will explore the properties of galaxies as a function of cosmic time, with a strong emphasis on understanding observational constraints on galaxy formation and evolution. Observations of galaxy formation will be connected to the growth of large-scale structure, so observations of clustering will be explored also. Hierarchical models for the origin of large-scale structure will be described in detail.

This course is similar to the pre-1999 AST1580H Observational Techniques. The course will cover Basic Optims for Modern Professional Astrophysics (Bsic Principles and Terms, Telescopes and Auxillary Optics, Spherical Surfaces, Mirrors, and Lenses, Dispersing Elements, Fiber Optics), Modern Detectors, Astronomical Instruments (Imagery, Spectrographs including FBS and FTS) as well as Adpative Optics (including MCAO and LGS AO), current and future instruments on large telescopes and proposted instruments for TMT/GMT.

This course covers advanced topics related to interstellar matter and star formation. Please check departmental website for details specific to each year's offering.

This course allows for advanced examination of subjects related to planetary topics. Course content in any given year may vary, but course topics may include Planet Formation, Planetary Dynamics, or Exoplanets. The course may be taken more than once for credit provided it has a different topic as indicated in the course's subtitle.