New One offers four full credit courses. Students admitted to New One will be placed in one of the four courses that comprise New One, taking into account the preferences you state when you apply.
Each course is a small seminar of twenty five students. You will also have opportunities to join together with students from the other three courses for plenary lectures, performances, and workshops, to address common issues, engage different disciplinary approaches, and experience a variety of ways of learning. Each seminar group will meet weekly for two hours; in addition, plenary events, field trips and workshops will be scheduled regularly throughout the year using a two-hour time slot reserved for all New One courses. Representatives from New College’s community partner organizations and its senior students will be invited to share their insights and wisdom in the smaller and larger learning settings.
NEW101Y1 Food Matters
How do we produce and ensure access to nutritious and environmentally sustainable food? Can we achieve ethical food production and global food security? What is the relationship among food science, local food movements, and global food systems? Science and social advocacy perspectives will be brought together to consider alternative food systems and topics such as the role of biotechnology, animal rights, and health and wellness.
NEW102Y1 Travelling Words: Language and Diversity
How does language connect and divide people, places, and communities? Defining language broadly, topics may include language norms and policy; the politics of minority, indigenous and global languages (such as English); translation, labelling, and meaning; academic and technical vs. everyday languages; disability and diverse ways of communicating. You will have opportunities to draw on your own multi-literacies and multi-lingual experiences.
NEW103Y1 Digital Technology: Promise and Perils
How does digital technology shape how we live, think, see and imagine? What can it contribute to projects for social change? How are our lives affected by increased opportunities for surveillance and regulation? From the perspectives of science, media arts, psychology, and ethics, topics may include new media and social activism; access to and control over knowledge; digitizing healthcare; and biometrics.
NEW104Y1 Recreating Place: Displaced Communities and the Creative Arts
How do displaced and marginalized people and communities re-locate and re-make themselves in Toronto? How is Toronto transformed in the process? You will investigate the role of the creative arts in building the cultural landscape of this diverse city. Topics may include the literature of immigration and exile; First Nations’ narrative art; cultural re-creations of the Caribbean, Africa, East and South Asia; artistic expression and disability; and LGBTQ cultural production.