between contemporary arts and cultural theory and the integration of the arts in education through curriculum implementation and research. CTL1799 H Special Topics in Curriculum: Master's Level: Instructional Intelligence The focus of this course is on integrating multiple instructional methods in the design of learning environments. This implies connecting instruction to assessment, curriculum, how students learn, change, and systemic change. Course participants will also inquire into the foundations of key instructional approaches and how those approaches play out through positivist and constructivist philosophies. CTL1799 H Special Topics in Curriculum: Masters Level: Religion in the Canadian Classroom This course will examine how religion has impacted the Canadian and particularly the Ontario classroom from the 1867 political compromise that allotted provinces authority over education and legally enshrined public funding from Catholic and public (Protestant in Quebec) schools through to today. Among the topics to be examined are: the tensions involved in teaching religion as opposed to teaching about religion, the public school system's struggle to accommodate secularism on one hand and 'non-traditional' faith communities on the other, the growth of private confessional private schools and the response to demands from these schools for public funding. CTL1799 H Special Topics in Curriculum: Masters Level: History and its Cinematic Representation The use of film as a kind of "teaching aid" is steadily increasing at all levels of schooling. This course foucuses on how film depicts history - and also how film distorts history. It is important for teachers to know the difference between the