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Foundational Year Programs: College Ones

All seven colleges in the Faculty of Arts and Science offer distinctive first-year programs to help with the transition to university. These programs provide a structured transition from high school to university with a focus on developing critical thinking, speaking and writing skills and an atmosphere that allows students to develop close relationships with fellow classmates and instructors.

College One programs typically combine one or more theme-based courses with co-curricular events (e.g. guest lectures) and experiential learning opportunities. All first-year, full-time students in the Faculty of Arts and Science, regardless of college affiliation, are eligible for admission to these programs.

Application deadline extended for most programs until available spaces are filled. See below and check individual College websites for more information.

 

 

 

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Innis One: The Creative City

Drawing from the College's three academic programs - Cinema Studies, Urban Studies, and Writing and Rhetoris - Innis One encourages you to develop your creative and critical capacities by exploring the dynamism of the urban environment. By reaching beyond the walls of the academy to enagae in an imaginative, inquiry-based, and civic-minded learning experience, you will gain a greater appreciation of the interplay between film, writing and urban landscapes. Small seminars featuring guest lecturers, student leadership events, and special field trips will offer you a unique experiential learning opportunity.

  • Number of credits: 1 One credit
  • Program structure: Small seminars and experiential learning activities
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: Apply online with a brief personal statement
  • Further Information: The Creative City Website
  • Apply Now

 

New One: Learning Without Borders

How do we imagine and build socially just global citizenship today? Drawing on the social advocacy focus of New College's academic programs, New One reaches across different disciplines, across sciences and arts, across campus and community organizations, across local and global contexts. Exploring creative ways of learning in a small seminar, students will address themes such as science and social justice, sustainable food systems, diasporas and identity, art and social advocacy. Co-curricular activities such as public lectures and field trips will broaden students' experience. Engaged students, professors, and members of community organizations will think together about ways to build bridges between people, communities, and ideas.

  • Number of credits: 1 One credit
  • Program structure: Small seminars, co-curricular activities
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: online application
  • Further Information: Learning Without Borders Website
  • Apply Now

 

SMC One: Cornerstone

If you are interested in social justice, SMC One: Cornerstone allows you to integrate your university  experience with work in the local community. The Justice, Culture and Community course will help you explore the theory, development and application of social justice from historical, sociological, political, philosophical, theological and psychological perspectives. You will work with your classmates to implement service-learning projects in one of four different areas: Life and Health, Environment and the Earth, Politics and Society, or Thought and Culture. Whether you are serving in a homeless shelter or long-term care facility, doing advocacy work for a local NGO or working in community economic development, SMC One will allow you to reflect on major questions of truth and value in the context of both academic study and lived experience with a community partner. 

  • Number of credits: 1 One credit
  • Program structure: 25 students in each theme-based seminar group; 2 hours of lectures and seminars and an average of 3 hours of community service each week.
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: online application with brief personal statement and service experience
  • Further Information: Cornerstone Website
  • Apply Now

 

Trinity One

The Margaret MacMillan Trinity One program explores world affairs, human life, and democratic governance through its International Relations, Ethics, and Public Policy streams, each of which consists of two seminar courses and one co-requisite course. The International Relations seminars examine the history, ideas, and institutions of the international system over the last 400 years and consider the ways in which states today grapple with ongoing challenges to global order and prosperity. The Ethics seminars wrestle with enduring questions of love and duty, family and self, and private vice and public virtue in the world of contemporary politics and in works of the creative imagination. The Public Policy seminars ponder the nature of the public good in a democratic society and trace the history of the Canadian government’s responses to a range of policy problems since Confederation.  

The Trinity One seminars develop students' skills of critical analysis and their ability to make persuasive arguments both orally and on paper. Regular visits by guest speakers to co-curricular lunchtime events illuminate the ways in which the ideas that students discuss in the classroom apply in the world beyond the university and offer opportunities to engage in informal conversation with leading figures from the fields of politics, media, and the arts. Other co-curricular activities include excursions to cultural events in Toronto.

  • Number of credits: 2 Trinity One credits + 1 co-requisite credit = 3 credits total
  • Program structure: Streams are separate.  There are two sections of each of the seminar courses in the IR stream.  Each section is limited to 25 students.  The IR stream co-requisite is a first-year course in History, Political Science, Economics, or Sociology, or a course taken with the permission of the director. There is one section of each of the seminar courses in the Ethics and Public Policy streams.  Each of these streams is limited to 25 students.  The Ethics stream co-requisite is a first-year course in Philosophy, English, or Political Science, or a course taken with the permission of the director.  The Public Policy stream co-requisite is a first-year course in History, Political Science, Philosophy, or Sociology, or a course taken with the permission of the director.  
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: online application with brief essay and list of extracurricular activities.

 

UC One: Engaging Toronto

University College's UC One enables you to take one of an exciting set of small-enrollment interdisciplinary courses that engage different aspects of Toronto: its communities and their place in Canada, the health of its citizens, its performing arts scene, and the culture and politics of its urban sexual diversity. UC One combines a strong academic orientation with co-curricular components that use Toronto as a laboratory for both humanities and social scientific enquiry. This program not only prepares you to succeed at U of T but also teaches you to apply what you learn to the world around you.

  • Number of credits: 1 One credit
  • Program structure: Seminars of 25 students, community-based research
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: 150 word personal statement
  • Further Information: Engaging Toronto Website
  • Apply Now

 

Vic One (5 Streams)

First launched in 2003, Vic One is an academically challenging and rigorous program for talented and engaged students who are interested in a multi-disciplinary approach to examining major historical and cultural figures and ideas that have shaped human experience.  

Offered through five academic streams, Vic One aims to stimulate, encourage and refine intellectual curiosity.  Students work directly with instructors in a seminar setting, honing research, presentation, writing, creative and critical thinking skills.  Research opportunities, field participation and a weekly-series of guest lectures by noted scholars, thinkers, artists and industry leaders round out the Vic One experience.

  • Number of credits: 2 Vic One credits + 1 (program-based) co-requisite = 3 total
  • Program Structure: 5 streams, each with seminars and lectures limited to 25 students (Frye, Pearson and Stowe-Gullen streams each have two sections; Jewison and Ryerson have one section)
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application Procedure: Extracurricular activity history, a brief essay and a brief personal statement
  • Further Information: Vic One Website
  • Applications are now closed.

 

 

Woodsworth One: Order & Disorder

"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers," says Dick in Shakespeare's Henry V. Dick may be a fool, but he expresses a frustration felt by many Society requires law and order, but at what point does order become oppression? How do we balance our need for freedom and society's need for order? In Woodswoth One, Order and Disorder, you will explore these and related questions through interdisciplinary seminars introducing perspectives from criminology, sociology, political science, philosophy, and history. In addition to the seminars, the program includes a wide range of community-building activities, guest lectures, student leadership events, and special field trips. As much as possible, you will be enrolled in special Woodsworth One tutorial sections in your Arts & Science courses, unifying your entire First Year experience. 

  • Number of credits: 1 One credit
  • Program structure: Two half-credit seminars limited to 25 students, plus timetabled co-curricular activities.
  • Eligibility: Faculty of Arts and Science (St. George) applicants
  • Application procedure: online application with brief personal statement
  • Further Information: Order & Disorder Website
  • Apply Now
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