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  • Artificial Intelligence (7 weeks) [CSDU233]
  • Fee: $410.55
    Delivery: Online - OntarioLearn
    Course Code: CSDU233
    Dates: 5/13/2025 - 6/24/2025
    Course hours: 42
    Credits: 3.00

    This course explores the idea of artificial intelligence (A.I.) from three different perspectives: scientific, philosophical, and cultural. The scientific perspective provides insight as to how artificial intelligence technologies work, the current limitations, and supposed future potential. The philosophical perspective explores whether A.I. is good or bad, essential or dangerous, and what the future could hold. The cultural angle examines how society views A.I. and whether these views are accurate. Toward the end of the course deeper topics will be introduced including how A.I. compares to human intelligence, the singularity, and futurism.

    NOTE: This course has mandatory chats.


    IMPORTANT: You will receive more information by email 1-2 business days prior to the course start. If you have registered for an Online - OntarioLearn course please review our Student Guide.  
     
 

  • Artificial Intelligence (7 weeks) [CSDU233]
  • Fee: $410.55
    Delivery: Online - OntarioLearn
    Course Code: CSDU233
    Dates: 7/2/2025 - 8/13/2025
    Course hours: 42
    Credits: 3.00

    This course explores the idea of artificial intelligence (A.I.) from three different perspectives: scientific, philosophical, and cultural. The scientific perspective provides insight as to how artificial intelligence technologies work, the current limitations, and supposed future potential. The philosophical perspective explores whether A.I. is good or bad, essential or dangerous, and what the future could hold. The cultural angle examines how society views A.I. and whether these views are accurate. Toward the end of the course deeper topics will be introduced including how A.I. compares to human intelligence, the singularity, and futurism.

    NOTE: This course has mandatory chats.


    IMPORTANT: You will receive more information by email 1-2 business days prior to the course start. If you have registered for an Online - OntarioLearn course please review our Student Guide.  
     
 

  • Global Citizenship [CSSA46]
  • Fee: $410.55
    Delivery: Online - OntarioLearn
    Course Code: CSSA46
    Dates: 5/13/2025 - 8/19/2025
    Course hours: 48
    Credits: 3.00

    The world is shrinking. The ice caps are melting.  A sneeze, thousands of kilometres away, starts a health pandemic, and technology enables us to intimately view not only earthquakes and tsunamis but human rights violations around the world.  This reality calls for an understanding of sustainability, diversity, and social justice. A global citizen is aware of the wider world, respects diversity, is outraged by injustice, participates in community from the local to global level, and feels compelled to act to make the world a more humane and sustainable place. Global citizenship will help students gain personal understanding of themselves as citizens of the world and apply it in their own lives. No textbook required. NOTE: Need to be able to view videos (i.e. YouTube). *NOTE: Students wanting to register for a General Education course as part of their certificate or diploma program should make sure to receive formal approval from their Program Coordinator. It should be noted that some general education courses are too close to the vocational specializations of specific programs and are therefore excluded as an option for students. It’s therefore important to receive formal approval before registration.

    IMPORTANT: You will receive more information by email 1-2 business days prior to the course start. If you have registered for an Online - OntarioLearn course please review our Student Guide.  
     
 

  • Introduction to Philosophy [CSMO199]
  • Fee: $410.55
    Delivery: Online - OntarioLearn
    Course Code: CSMO199
    Dates: 5/13/2025 - 8/19/2025
    Course hours: 42
    Credits: 3.00

    This course will provide students with an introduction to philosophy as well as an opportunity to examine and discuss issues that are widely debated amongst philosophers. Issues such as skepticism, free-will and the existence of a God will play prominent roles in this course. Students will examine classical and modern philosophers as they struggled with their own thoughts as they were compared to more accepted religious and scientific theories. Readings will focus upon philosophers such as Plato, Socrates, Locke and Descartes, as well as more prominent contemporary philosophers Robert Nozick, Hilary Putnam and Thomas Nagel. Students will be introduced to philosophical arguments and the forms and methods in which arguments should be conducted and analyzed.

    Textbook required.

    *NOTE: Students wanting to register for a General Education course as part of their Full time certificate/diploma program should make sure to receive formal approval from their Program Coordinator. It should be noted that some general education courses are too close to the vocational specializations of specific programs and are therefore excluded as an option for students. It’s therefore important to receive formal approval before registration.


    IMPORTANT: You will receive more information by email 1-2 business days prior to the course start. If you have registered for an Online - OntarioLearn course please review our Student Guide.  
     
 

  • Philosophy of Art Concepts and Theories [CSMO28]
  • Fee: $410.55
    Delivery: Online - OntarioLearn
    Course Code: CSMO28
    Dates: 5/13/2025 - 8/19/2025
    Course hours: 42
    Credits: 3.00

    This course will introduce the student to mimetic theories in philosophy of art. The course is designed as an introduction to the concepts of art, aesthetics, nature and experience as the subject of artworks, and the place of art in life and society. No textbook required. *NOTE: Students wanting to register for a General Education course as part of their certificate or diploma program should make sure to receive formal approval from their Program Coordinator. It should be noted that some general education courses are too close to the vocational specializations of specific programs and are therefore excluded as an option for students. It’s therefore important to receive formal approval before registration.

    IMPORTANT: You will receive more information by email 1-2 business days prior to the course start. If you have registered for an Online - OntarioLearn course please review our Student Guide.  
     
 

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