GRADE 12

IDC4U Utopian Societies: Visions and Realities, University Preparation

This course combines the expectations for Interdisciplinary Studies, Grade 12, University Preparation with selected expectations from two or
more other courses.

This course provides students with opportunities to use a wide range of information resources and research skills to analyse the purposes, features,
and impact of significant historical and fictional designs for perfecting society. Using an interdisciplinary approach, students will explore how utopian fiction and experiments (e.g. Robert Owen’s model industrial town of New Lanark,
Scotland) question the assumptions of past and current societies. Students will also assess the influence, success, and failure of utopian solutions to effect change and to produce a just society, and will then present their own vision of the future. Prerequisite: Recommended ENG3U