Minor in Global Leadership

Now, more than ever, the world needs principled, inclusive, and empathetic global leaders. The goal of the Minor in Global Leadership (GLB) is specifically to develop students’ collaborative global leadership skills and capacity to critique what is global leadership and how this concept is understood and challenged in diverse disciplines and contexts. In order to support the active and inclusive participation of students from all three campuses, core GLB courses will be primarily delivered online via synchronous and asynchronous course delivery methods with regular in-person meetings with guest speakers and embedded social activities to build student connections, commitment and engagement. 

Eligibility 

Enrolment in the Minor in Global Leadership is limited. Students will be able to apply to the program after completing 4.0 credits, must have achieved an average GPA of 2.7(B-/70%) across their best 3.0 FCEs and have three years remaining in their program of study. In addition, students must submit an application as described on the KPE Minor in Global Leadership website, and will need to include an unofficial transcript. The Minor in Global Leadership will be available for Fall 2023 enrolment. 

Course Requirements

Students in the Minor in Global Leadership will complete 3 core global leadership courses in sequence, plus elective courses within each participating division:

  1. GLB201H5 (0.5 FCE) Global Leadership: Past, Present, Futures: YEAR 2
  2. GLBC0H3 (0.5 FCE) Global Leadership: Theory, Research, and Practice: YEAR 3
  3. GLB401Y1 (1.0 FCE) Global Leadership: Capstone Project: YEAR 4
  4. Divisional course electives (2.0 FCE): YEAR 2-4

NOTE: Elective courses used for the Minor in Global Leadership will count toward the BKin degree requirements, but cannot also be used toward the BKin Certificates.


Divisional Elective Global Pathway list of Courses:

* Courses with an asterisk have varying topics and will only count towards the Global Leadership Minor if the focus of study/in-field experience is on an international, global or Indigenous topic.

KPE300H1 Physical Culture and Social Inequality
KPE302H1 Media, Health and Exercise Sciences
KPE304H1 Violence Suffering & Physical Culture
KPE305H1 Geographies and Environments of Health and Physical Cultures
KPE307H1 Olympic and Paralympic Studies
KPE310H1 Sport and Climate Change
KPE311H1 Sport Media and Culture
KPE321H1 Population Health
KPE335H1  Sports Law
KPE355Y1* Interpersonal Theory in Kinesiology & Physical Education
KPE401H1 International Development Through Sport
KPE403H1 Gender/s and Sexualities in Sports and Physical Culture
KPE404H1 Illness, Disease and Physical Culture
KPE405H1 Race, Indigeneity and Physical Culture
KPE406H1 Sport in Popular Culture
KPE408H1 Sport and the “War on Terror”
KPE409H1 Sport, Physical Activity and Human Rights
KPE455Y1* Kinesiology & Physical Education in Society
KPE495H1* Independent Study

KPE311H1 - Sport Media and Culture

This course explores the relationships between health, physical activity, sport, the mass media, and popular culture in North America. We will examine the ways in which meanings about science, physical activity and health are produced, distributed and consumed within allied health fields and the wider population. The first half of the course will be devoted to media, health, and physical activity, while the second half will cover media and (mostly elite) sport. Throughout, we will look at all sorts of media - newspapers, websites, books, advertisements, TV and film, social media and new technologies.
Course topics will address a variety of approaches to health literacy and media studies, the social marketing of health, risk communication in kinesiology, media advocacy, new social media, health technology, media framing, the commodification of physical culture, and media ethics. During this course, you will also be asked to consider how the relationship between sport and the mass media reflects the broader culture of a society, as well as the ways that professional sport media interacts with and supports the professional sport industry, (re)produces inequality and harm, and contributes to important discourse around sport, health, and society more broadly.

Prerequisite: TBD
Course Category: Physical Cultural (A)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE321H1 - Population Health

This course explores patterns of health and illness among groups (populations) of people. Emphasis is on the determinants of health (social political, economic and environmental etc.). Students will learn about basic research methods and issues in the field. Current examples of major local and global health concerns will be used to illustrate key concepts.

Prerequisite: Prerequisite: KPE200H1, (KPE290H1/KPE391H1) or KPE291H1 Corequisite: the other of (KPE290H1/KPE391H1) or KPE291H1
Course Category: Behavioural (B)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE335H1 - Global Sports Law

The course will be an introduction to global sports law. Students will explore how the rules and regulations of the Olympic Movement, the technical side of sport, and the anti-doping movement constitute private transnational legal systems where international sport organizations have regulatory autonomy that is often shielded from intervention by national legal systems. Students will learn how disputes involving these sport rules and regulations are resolved through private arbitration by reviewing key arbitral decisions issued by the Court of Arbitration for Sport and the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada, and by participating in mock arbitrations of disputes involving doping violations, team selection decisions, and competition outcomes. Finally, students will critically examine how certain sport rules relating to gender verification, out-of-competition doping testing, and doping sanctions impact the rights of athletes, and whether arbitration can provide the necessary oversight and accountability measures to protect those rights.

Recommended Preparation: KPE200H1, KPE220H1, KPE264H1
Course Category: Behavioural (B)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE355Y1 - Interpersonal Theory in Kinesiology and Physical Education

This course will provide students an opportunity to develop their knowledge and competencies in interpersonal theory in Kinesiology and Physical Education. Topics covered in this course include, verbal and non-verbal communication strategies, active listening with patients/clients, reflective practice, managing conflict, decision making, teamwork, and leadership. This course draws upon previous coursework and integrates theory and practice across course learning activities to apply the course content to the breadth of populations and settings within the field of Kinesiology and Physical Education. As a part of the course, students will participate in a field experience (100 hours) with a mentor observing and engaging in interpersonal relations and participating in the planning and implementation of programs as appropriate. Course evaluation activities include weekly class and tutorial sessions, written assignments, presentations, and examinations. Notes: Classroom/tutorial sessions are two hours per week in addition to field experience. Please refer to the 'Fees and Financial Requirements' section of the calendar for information on ancillary fees.

Prerequisite: You must have followed the appropriate pre-course procedures in the year preceding course enrolment, be entering 3rd year (or higher), and obtain instructor approval.
Exclusion: KPE350Y1
Course Category: Behavioural (B)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE403H1 - Gender/s and Sexualities in Sports and Physical Culture

This course will examine historical and contemporary conceptions of gender/s and sexualities in sport and physical culture, paying attention to how gender normativities enable and constrain people’s sense of belonging. Discourses, representations and practices of masculinity, femininity, hetero-and-homo normativity, homophobia and transphobia are interrogated using feminist, post-colonial, anti-oppression and intersectional lenses (e.g., how gender and sexuality intersect with race, colonialism, class, and disability). Drawing from key critical literatures, film/documentaries, and policy, we consider the ways in which gender/s and sexualities have been governed in sports and physical culture, and how differential and violent power relations continue to shape people’s understanding of, and attitudes towards, gender-non-conforming bodies, limiting what is possible, specifically for 2SLGBTQI+ and communities. We will discuss how social justice, caring and ethical relations are required in sports and physical culture to create spaces where a multiplicity of gender and sexuality identifications are protected, allowed to feel safe, and flourish.

Prerequisite: KPE100H1, KPE200H1
Course Category: Physical Cultural (A)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE404H1 - Illness, Disease and Physical Culture

This senior course in physical cultural studies attends to and examines the existential and cultural dimensions of illness, disease and suffering in society. Taking both the personal (i.e., embodied, emplaced and performative) experience and institutional organization of illness as its broad focus, the course theoretically and empirically interrogates how socially problematic forms of embodiment, self-constructions through disease processes, illness and individual affect, strained interpersonal relations through illness, bodies in physical and social recovery, and cultural representations of ‘bad bodies’ are poorly understood within kinesiology proper. Particular attention in this course is given to how bodies and associated selves at the fringe of medically defined ‘health’/kinesiological parameters are positioned as pathological, contra-normative, at risk or in need of repair and restitution. Central theoretical and conceptual questions regarding what constitutes health and wellbeing are addressed against the lived cultural realities of people with movement and physical activity challenges and limitations. Topics in the course may include, but are not limited to, doing physical activity as a diseased person, the social organization of rehabilitative medicine in sport and physical cultures, athletes living with/recovering from physical trauma and mental illnesses, patient-centered movement cultures, and phenomenological accounts of the illness, disease and dying processes.

Prerequisite: KPE200H1, KPE290H1/KPE391H1, KPE291H1
Course Category: Physical Cultural (A)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE405H1 - Race, Indigeneity and Physical Culture

In this course we will refer to race as a remnant of colonialism, an effect of social practices, and a shifting, performed identity. We explore the ways that fantasies of the history of Canada as a tolerant and multicultural nation hide truths about racism in this country and construct race and indigeneity in everyday life. This course examines how and why ’race’ matters so intensely and the ways ‘race’ is produced and policed, ultimately enabling and empowering some bodies and movements, while oppressing others within physical cultures. Myths of race as a biological category will be debunked. We will explore a wide range of topics including Black masculinities and Black diasporas, access to sport for Asians and anti-Asian racism, the (in)visibility of Indigenous peoples in Canadian sport; religious (in)tolerance, and White privilege. We will read theoretical and empirical chapters and articles and discuss how socio-economic, ableist, and gendered practices of differentiation produce race categories. Last, we will elaborate our roles in creating more equitable and democratic spaces for all athletes and people. KPE405H1 will not only improve engagement with social justice issues, but also ameliorate communication skills and intercultural competencies particularly related to indigeneity, diaspora, equity, and anti-racism in sport.

Prerequisite: KPE200H1
Course Category: Physical Cultural (A)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE409H1 - Sport, Physical Activity and Human Rights

Participants in physical education, physical activity and sport enjoy all the rights of Canadian citizens under Canadian law, including the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provincial and territorial human rights legislation. They also enjoy the protections of the international system of human rights established by the United Nations, to which the Canadian government is a signatory. Although many of those documents specifically mention rights related to sports, the promised rights are not always protected in practice as evidenced in, for example, far too many recent cases of athlete abuse. This course examines the concepts, legal protections and failings of human rights in Canadian and international sports, and explores ways in which they could be strengthened.

Prerequisite: KPE200H1
Course Category: Physical Cultural (A)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE455Y1 - Kinesiology and Physical Education in Society

This course builds upon KPE350Y1/KPE355Y1 to further students’ theoretical grounding in the broader practice of Kinesiology and Physical Education in society. Topics covered in this course include, but are not limited to, emotional intelligence in the workplace, integrity in community relations, performance adaptability, diversity, creativity, ethics and professionalism, and work-life balance. Adopting a values-based approach to learning and development students will be encouraged to consider strategies for enhancing the practice of Kinesiology and Physical Education within society. As a part of this course, students will spend 100 hours in the field and will work closely with a mentor. Course evaluation activities include weekly class and tutorial sessions, written assignments, presentations, and examinations.

Notes: Classroom/tutorial sessions are two hours per week in addition to field experience. For more information visit the professional placement page on our website.

Please refer to the 'Fees and Financial Requirements' section of the calendar for details on ancillary fees.

Prerequisite: KPE350Y1/KPE355Y1; As well, you must have followed the appropriate pre-course procedures in the year preceding course enrolment, be entering 3rd year (or higher), and obtain instructor approval.
Exclusion: KPE450Y1
Course Category: Behavioural (B)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

KPE495H1 - Independent Study

The purpose of the independent study is to permit students to extend beyond current course offerings and explore in detail a subject area of their choosing related to the study of physical activity and health. Students work closely with a faculty supervisor with a relevant background. Before pursuing an independent study, students are expected to have taken all the relevant courses offered by the Faculty in that sub-discipline. Students will research their topic of interest primarily through reading and writing a report on their findings. They are also required to attend some classes/workshops throughout the term and to present their reviews and/or findings at the annual Bertha Rosenstadt National Undergraduate Research Conference. Students may elect a total of no more than two half courses under KPE495H1 or external equivalents.

*Notes regarding KPE390Y1, KPE490Y1 and KPE495H1:

1. For permission to enrol a student must: a) Obtain course information and application forms from Registrar’s Office website. Application forms are available in the spring for the following academic year. b) Find a faculty advisor. c) Complete the pre-requisite form (may do so with faculty advisor if desired). d) Complete advisor-student agreement form together with faculty advisor. e) Submit both prerequisite and student-advisor agreement form together to Registrar’s Office for review and approval by course coordinator.

2. Nominal funding may be available to subsidize some costs of KPE390Y1/KPE490Y1/KPE495H1 projects. See the course information package for application guidelines. **Please note that each faculty member can accept only a limited number of students.

Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing and a minimum B average in the area of interest.
Course Category: Behavioural (B)
Mode of Delivery: In Person

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