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ANIM 200 Introduction to Animation  Units: 3.00   Instructor: E. Pelstring - Fall 2026

This course offers a historical overview of material animation practices. The course covers key developments in a range of material animation practices (cell, stop motion, cut out, digital) and offers critical engagement with emerging voices in the field of animation studies and practice.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 123/3.0 or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Devise research methods informed by understanding of material animation techniques.
2. Develop skills in fundamental techniques of material animation.
3. Engage in animation criticism informed by historical knowledge and exposure to the most recent achievements in the field.
4. Understand techniques and principles germane to the illusion of movement.
5. Investigate topics of interest within animation practice.

ANIM 201  Animation Curation  Units: 3.00   Instructor: G. Gear - Fall 2026

This project-based course takes students on a 4-night field trip to North America's largest animation festival, the Ottawa International Animation Festival, as a case study in September. Following the trip, the students will conceptualize, develop, curate, and execute their own small student-run animation festival. The course includes a fee to cover the cost of a festival pass, transportation and accommodation for the field trip.
NOTE Field Trip: estimated cost $400.
NOTE Students will be given a grade of Pass/Fail for work done.

Learning Hours: 108 (12 Lecture, 48 Group Learning, 24 Off-Campus Activity, 24 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 123/3.0 or (registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0 and permission of the Department).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Work with a large team in committees to curate a small film festival from start to finish.
2. Communicate in a professional manner with invited artists and audiences.
3. Design and execute a public event, including marketing materials, in collaboration with a group.
4. Develop community engagement opportunities through targeted outreach initiatives.
5. Manage technical aspects of collecting and preparing works for public screening.  

ANIM 220  History of Studio Animation  Units: 3.00   Instructor: S. MacKenzie - Winter 2027

This course offers a historical, sociological, and theoretical framing and analysis of animated media produced by major studios across the world. The course will examine animated media such as early cartoon shorts, television animation, and feature films, including some beloved classics, as texts that are rich with ideological and political concerns.

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 12 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above. Equivalency FILM 220/3.0*.  

Course Equivalencies: ANIM 220; FILM 220  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of the history of animated film in terms of key directors, studios, films, themes, and animation techniques.
2. Analyze animated feature films from social, historical, ideological, formal perspectives.
3. Identify and compare trends in animation from different studios and different historical and geographic contexts.
4. Recognize and apply key concepts in the historical and theoretical study of animation.
5. Understand contemporary debates about animation and children’s popular culture and formulate original arguments and interpretations. 

ANIM 356  2D Animation   Units: 3.00   Instructor: Emily Pelstring - Winter 2027

A combined study of the theory of film animation with animation production techniques. Requirements will include the production of short animation exercises.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan). Equivalency FILM 356/3.0*.  

Course Equivalencies: ANIM 356, FILM 356  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze animated films with attention to technical processes and social and historical contexts.
2. Evaluate the aesthetic possibilities unique to animation and use them to make moving-image media.
3. Apply technical skills in a variety of 2D animation methods to create short animated sequences.
4. Synthesize specific interests within the field of independent animation to develop a personal visual style.
5. Apply traditional frame-by-frame animation skills with control over timing and spacing.  

ANIM 368  Animation Theory and Criticism  Units: 3.00   Instructor: G. Gear - Winter 2027

A course on the history, theory, and practice of animated films. Requirements include a series of screenings, writings, and a practice based critical project.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan). Equivalency FILM 368/3.0*.  

Course Equivalencies: ANIM 368, FILM 368  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical writing skills from course literature.
2. Produce a research-based essay.
3. Co-organize and deliver a seminar based upon given and student-researched material.
4. Analyze and discuss animation works within the context of their production.  

ANIM 377  3D Animation  Units: 3.00   Instructor: J. Norton - Winter 2027

This course covers the creation and animation of simple 3D objects. Students will have an overview of modelling, rigging, texturing, animating characters, and creating virtual 3D environments.
NOTE Animation Software: estimated cost $100.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan). Equivalency FILM 377/3.0*.  

Course Equivalencies: ANIM 377, FILM 377  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Configuring project settings and devices used for 3D sculpting.
2. Managing workflows: software fundamentals (examining a variety of software tools and their differences and commonalities), media management (merging objects, autosave settings, file size, render settings).
3. Ability to create 3D content: box modeling, 3D sculpting, titles, shapes, characters, basic animation and key frame manipulation.
4. Rigging 3D Models: creating a joint system to create a PLA (point level animation) necessary for augmented reality and virtual reality, spline animation.
5. Making use of procedural animations such as Pose Morph, Deformers, Xpresso, Mograph effects in Cinema 4D.
6. Integrate audio: reactive sound, sound design, foley, score, dialogue editing, sound mixing.
7. Implement a wide variety of post-production and SFX techniques: colour correction, compositing effects, adding/creating CG elements.
8. Integrating motion-captured data with rigged characters.

ANIM 469  Advanced Animation Production  Units: 3.00   Instructor: G. Gear - Fall 2026

This course covers a variety of advanced animation techniques and allows students to explore physical materials and digital tools. Students conceptualize and create an animated short film.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or ANIM 356/3.0 or ANIM 377/3.0 or FILM 356/3.0* or FILM 377/3.0* or FILM 379/3.0 or FILM 394/3.0. Equivalency FILM 469/3.0*.  

Course Equivalencies: ANIM 469, FILM 469, FILM 369  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish between a variety of animation styles and techniques.
2. Use a digital animation program competently.
3. Plan a technical workflow from start to finish.
4. Plan a narrative or experimental work through storyboarding and preliminary testing.
5. Explain aesthetic, theoretical, and social issues in one's own work and the work of others.
6. Implement strategies for sound-image synchronization.
7. Understand file specs and delivery issues such as video compression, frame rate, and resolution.

FILM 111  Introduction to Film Studies: Approaches to Film Form  Units: 3.00  Instructor: I. Robinson - Winter 2027

This course introduces students to the close analysis of form and meaning in film and moving image art. Through case studies from the history of cinema, the course will focus on methods of film analysis and the production of meaning in film in connection to the elements of form, narrative, and style.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None. Exclusion FILM 110/6.0*.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Interpret the formal aspects of cinema and explain how they contribute to making meaning in films from different genres, cultures, and historical eras.
2. Analyze how narrative is constructed and organized in a film.
3. Identify the key social and technological components of the cinema and related media.
4. Examine the legacies of film style and techniques within a broader visual culture.
5. Formulate interpretive responses to films.
6. Demonstrate an understanding of issues pertaining to film form across different modes (narrative, documentary, experimental film) and genre (e.g. comedy, horror, science fiction). 

FILM 112  Introduction to Film History: Genres and Movements  Units: 3.00  Instructor: G. Menotti - Fall 2026

This course introduces students to film studies through a survey of film movements and genres from the beginnings of the 20th century to the present. Through the study of the history of cinema as both technology and artform, this course will examine key historical sites of formal development, experimentation, generic codification, social transgression, and political and ideological expression.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None. Exclusion FILM 110/6.0*.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Interpret elements or narrative, style, and rhetoric of films of multiple genres and historical periods.
2. Analyze films according to historical conventions of form and genre.
3. Identify key moments in the social, cultural, and technological history of film.
4. Examine the formal, cultural and social legacies of film movements, genres and cultures in a historical context.
5. Formulate interpretive responses to films from different social and historical settings.  

FILM 113  Introduction to Media Studies: Cultures and Technologies  Units: 3.00  Instructor: W. Pan - Fall 2026

This course offers an introduction to media studies by focusing on the impacts of new technologies on global cultures throughout history. The course focuses on the nature of mediated communication, the role of media, and the critical approaches we can mobilize to understand its forms and functions. The course examines various media through lenses such as political discourse and the rise of globalization.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media and critical and historical approaches to global media studies.
2. Summarize development of media studies theory and concepts and their contextual specificity.
3. Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field of media history.
4. Deploy the formal tools, terms, critical terms and definitions of media studies in the analysis of local and global media technologies.  

FILM 114  Introduction to Media Studies: Arts and Practices  Units: 3.00  Instructor: E. Chalfant -  Winter 2027

This course offers an introduction to media studies by focusing on the ways that cultures make use of media. The course focuses on the nature of mediated communication, the roles of media, and the critical approaches we can mobilize to understand media arts and practices through a comparative survey of global media practice and networks of production, circulation, and consumption.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 12 Tutorial, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of a variety of media and approaches to global media studies.
2. Analyze specific uses of media technologies in global contexts.
3. Develop academic and creative skills to engage, research, and write on topics in the field pertaining to media arts and practices.
4. Deploy the formal tools, terms, critical terms and definitions of media studies in the analysis of contemporary global media practices.

FILM 201  Transnational Media  Units: 3.00  Instructor: W. Pan  - Winter 2027

This course introduces students to various approaches to analyzing film and media production, circulation, and consumption across pre-existing geographical borders. By tracing the different transnational media industries, practices and routes of circulation, we will question the primacy of the national as a determining category of analysis but pay attention to how national and local knowledge continue to work in media’s transnational trajectory. Students will learn to investigate how film and media are shaped by factors such as migration, co-production, global capital, platform and industry regulations, and geopolitics.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Practicum)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0 or FILM 113/3.0 or FILM 114/3.0] and permission of the Department).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand core debates and different critical approaches to transnational media studies.

2. Analyze the cultural, economic, political, and industrial factors that shape transnational media flows and practices.

3. Develop skills in conducting independent research on transnational media and present findings through different genres of writing and presentation.

FILM 204  Introduction to Creative Industries in Canada  Units: 3.00  Instructor: A. Jansen - Fall 2026

A broad introduction and overview of different creative sectors with a focus on the current state of industry and future projections, presented through a specially curated series of in-depth discussions with key professionals.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 72 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0 or FILM 113/3.0 or FILM 114/3.0] and permission of the Department).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze and compare the social, cultural, political, and institutional foundations of different creative sectors and examine how they intersect and overlap.
2. Demonstrate comprehension of the current challenges and opportunities within each sector.
3. Evaluate the roles and impacts of technology, cultural policy, and the global economy in shaping creative industries.
4. Analyze industry directions and career paths.
5. Practice networking and actively approaching professionals.

 FILM 206  Academic Research and Writing Methods for Film and Media    Instructor: T. de Szegheo Lang - Fall 2026

A series of interactive presentations and lectures instructing students in research methods, argumentative writing, and the design of effective audio-visual presentations.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 72 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0 or FILM 113/3.0 or FILM 114/3.0] and permission of the Department). Exclusion FILM 207/3.0*.   

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Practice rewarding academic and personal skills to better manage the demands of university through workshops and self-reflections.
2. Gain familiarity with research sites and supports, including the library, online databases, and research management tools.
3. Explain the difference between writing styles associated with film and media theory.
4. Use reading and writing strategies from film and media theory to craft an analytical research paper.
5. Incorporate audio-visual analysis of on-screen media into analytical writing.  

FILM 210  The Horror Film  Units: 3.00  Instructor: T. de Szegheo Lang - Winter 2027

This course examines the emergence and continuing popularity of the horror film from a global perspective. It explores the history and transformations of the genre and the ways in which the horror film has been mobilized in popular media to address larger cultural, political, and sociological issues.

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 12 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Accurately describe the history of horror cinema, especially in relation to political, cultural, and global contexts.
2. Discuss recurrent trends in horror using key theoretical concepts as identified by notable scholars and practitioners in the field.
3. Critically explain how the formal properties and aesthetics of horror cinema have developed to generate affective responses.
4. Construct a robust appreciation of the diversity of horror cinema, especially as it pertains socio-political contexts.

FILM 215  Science Fiction Cinema  Units: 3.00  Instructor: W. Jennings - Fall 2026

This course examines the emergence and continuing popularity of the science fiction film from a global perspective. It explores the history and transformations of the genre and the ways in which science fiction film has been mobilized in popular media to address larger cultural, political, and sociological issues.

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 12 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Review the history of Science Fiction Cinema in an historical context.
2. Articulate relationships between key concepts in the theoretical study of Science Fiction Cinema.
3. Compare re-current trends in Science Fiction Cinema across different cultural contexts.
4. Assess how the scientific discourse is mobilized in Science Fiction Cinema.
5. Analyze the formal characteristics of Science Fiction Cinema.
6. Contextualize Science Fiction Cinema in various historical forms and genres.

FILM 216  Special Topic in Film Histories  Units: 3.00  Instructor: K. Bertrand - Fall 2026

This course introduces students to historical research methods and analytical approaches when investigating filmmaking and artistic histories. Topics may include select movements or moments in global filmmaking histories, specific genres or influential aesthetic styles, or key artists and creators. As a special topic course, the focus of the class is subject to change from year to year. Students should consult the Department's website for updated information.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0 or FILM 113/3.0 or FILM 114/3.0] and permission of the Department).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify important historical developments in film form and function.
2. Explain the impact of various historical developments on the medium in both written and oral form.
3. Conduct historical research using online and print sources.
4. Evaluate the validity and limitations of historical or primary sources.  

FILM 217  Film Theory and History  Units: 3.00  Instructor: K. Bertrand - Winter 2027

This course offers an overview of key aesthetic and theoretical movements that constructed and expanded the canon of film scholarship. Beginning with some of the earliest responses to filmmaking as an emergent artform, this course surveys foundational ideas that helped artists and scholars make sense of film as an artistic, cultural, and political product.

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 12 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 111/3.0 or FILM 112/3.0] and permission of the Department). 

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify specific aesthetic and theoretical movements within film studies.
2. Describe the formal and theoretical properties of cinema, as well as its relation to shifting artistic, political, social, and cultural contexts.
3. Explain key concepts in film theory through written assignments.
4. Formulate connections across weeks and engage with new material with an inquisitive and attentive attitude.

FILM 218  Media Theory and History  Units: 3.00  Instructor: E. Chalfant - Fall 2026

This course explores foundational theories, texts, and aesthetic movements that conceptualize and articulate the changing relationship between media and culture. The course also offers an overview of the history of print, broadcast, electronic, and digital media technologies and their social contexts.

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 12 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or ([FILM 110/6.0* or FILM 113/3.0 or FILM 114/3.0] and permission of the Department).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify specific aesthetic and theoretical movements that constructed and expanded the boundaries of media studies.
2. Describe the historical development of media technologies and their relations to political, social, and cultural contexts.
3. Explain key concepts in media theory through written assignments.
4. Critically evaluate major shifts in media movements and aesthetics.
5. Critically evaluate media theories and practice applying them to specific case studies.

FILM 224  Introduction to Korean Media and Popular Culture  Units: 3.00  Instructor: S. Bahng - Fall 2026

This course explores Korea's diverse media and popular culture, including cinema, dramas, and K-Pop. It delves into Korea's socio-historical influence on media. Diverse, critical perspectives are presented through topics including cinema history, global dramas, K-Pop success (e.g., BTS), and the global impact of Hallyu (Korean wave).

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Comprehend Socio-Historical Context: Understand the intricate connections between Korean media and popular culture with the socio-historical factors that have shaped them, including significant events, societal changes, and cultural influences.
2. Cultivate Critical Analysis Skills: Develop advanced critical thinking skills to systematically analyze a wide range of Korean media forms, such as cinema, television dramas, and K-Pop. Evaluate these forms with a discerning eye, considering their cultural, artistic, and societal relevance and impact.
3. Evaluate Global Implications: Explore and assess the global reach and implications of the Hallyu (Korean Wave) phenomenon. Develop analytical tools to examine its socio-cultural and economic significance on a global scale, including its influence on other cultures and industries.
4. Foster Reflective Analysis: Practice reflective thinking to analyze how Korean media and popular culture intersect with your own life and experiences. Develop the ability to critically reflect on the influence of Korean media on personal beliefs, values, and perspectives.

FILM 236  Media and Cultural Studies  Units: 3.00  Instructor: S. Lord - Fall 2026

This course sits at the intersection of cultural and media studies. Through close analysis and discussion of theoretical readings, historical methods, case studies, film and media screenings and projects, we examine the many ways in which cultural practices are expressed, reproduced, and circulated through various media circuits and channels.
NOTE Also offered online, consult Arts and Science Online (Learning Hours may vary).

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Level 2 or above.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand the circuits of production, distribution and consumption of media texts.
2. Develop knowledge of key developments of cultural technologies and their political, social and economic contexts of emergence, particularly as relates to issues of race, class, Indigeneity and gender.
3. Increase fluency in theoretical foundations of media studies and cultural studies.
4. Use theoretical frameworks and cultural studies approaches to media and cultural texts (advertising, television genres, cultural spectacle, etc.) in relation to social power and identity.

FILM 250  Fundamentals of Media Production Instructor: A. Guerrero Cortes / R. Randall / D. Elon - Fall 2026/Winter 2027

An introductory course to media production. Topics will cover basic camera operations, visual composition, editing, sound, and lighting techniques. Students will work in teams to accomplish a series of short film productions.
NOTE Production Supplies: estimated cost $250.

Learning Hours: 120(30 Lecture, 30 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, or ARTV 101/3.0 or ARTV 102/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate an understanding of digital media formats, their technical properties, and usage through practical activities.
2. Demonstrating knowledge in the usage of basic production and post-production tools.
3. Implementing the basics of structuring, planning, producing, and revising in creative media project.
4. Implementing the fundamentals of film language and conventions of audiovisual storytelling in a creative project.
5. Utilize knowledge of media history and theory toward the critique of student media projects.  

FILM 257  Film and Media Concept Development  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Elon - Fall 2026 & Winter 2027

This course will explore the methods of film/media-related work that precedes pre-production, including the elaboration of primary concepts and ideas, research, and script development. The student will learn how to engage in research which is relevant, and how to develop primary concepts into workable scripts or project designs.
NOTE This course is the prerequisite for FILM 312: Screenwriting.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 36 Online Activity, 36 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, or ARTV 101/3.0 or ARTV 102/3.0.    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze which form of concept productions are most salient for the project.
2. Deploy analytical skills to refine project from initial conception to final outcome.
3. Develop an understanding of the various forms of concept development across genres.
4. Understand the importance of concept development.  

FILM 260  Digital Media Theory  Units: 3.00  Instructor: P. Gauthier - Summer 2027

Survey of digital media theories and online mass communication practices, with emphasis on social and mobile technologies. Course considers the impact of digitalization on the creative and culture industries.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

Learning Hours: 120 (72 Online Activity, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate relationships between specific concepts from the major theories and schools of thought used to study digital media.
2. Assess creative works using digital theory.
3. Design short works in digital platforms, informed by digital media theory.
4. Evaluate the role of digital media in contemporary culture.
5. Review new digital media in a critical manner.  

FILM 275  The Frame  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Naaman - Winter 2027

This is a course combining studies and production, and focuses intensely on the frame, thinking through aesthetic choices, formal elements, and eventually storytelling. This course will allow students to focus their attention on the elements of the frame, mise-en-scène, lighting, exposure, and composition as they build content (mood, power dynamics, stories).

Learning Hours: 108 (24 Lecture, 12 Laboratory, 24 Tutorial, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan, or ARTV 101/3.0 or ARTV 102/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze frame design across multiple cultures/production settings/genres.
2. Position one's own aesthetic preferences within cultural and industry frameworks.
3. Construct frames and shots where aesthetic choices are aligned with conceptual ones.
4. Respond visually to master filmmakers from around the world.
5. Master basic techniques of photography and cinematography with a mobile phone.
6. Communicate ideas about the aesthetic of the frame both verbally and visually.

FILM 308  Special Topic in Popular Cultures  Units: 3.00  Instructor: A. Na - Fall 2026

Students will examine recent popular culture trends, practices, styles, theories, and artifacts. Through creative assignments, discussion, research and readings, students will engage in creative critique of the power of the popular to shape our identities, ideologies, and cultural arrangements. As a special topic course, the focus of the class is subject to change from year to year. Students should consult the Department's website for updated information.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 236/3.0 or FILM 240/3.0 or FILM 260/3.0).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply the tools of academic critical analysis of a specific form of popular culture.
2. Build capacity and knowledge base to become critical consumers of popular culture.
3. Reflect on one's own consumption of popular culture as it relates to the topics covered in this course.
4. Develop ability to analyze various forms of popular culture and their significance according to theoretical perspectives and concerning selected issues. 

FILM 309  Environmental Media  Units: 3.00  Instructor: M. Hogan - Fall 2026

This course examines contemporary media works which address the climate crisis. We examine a range of activist media, documentaries, experimental media, Indigenous media, and fiction films to consider both how the climate crisis is portrayed, and the successes and failures of the representational strategies deployed.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or permission of the Department.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Challenge default assumptions about how media activism, in relation to climate change in particular, work.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of the debates surrounding the use of rationality and emotion in addressing the environment and the climate crisis.
3. Examine the roles played by various forms of technology in addressing the environment.
4. Mobilize visual technologies to convey issues about the climate crisis.
5. Understand various forms of media activism deployed in the climate crisis.  

FILM 311  Mediating Misinformation  Units: 3.00  Instructor: M. Hogan - Fall 2026

This course critically evaluates narratives foregrounding the role of social media in the spread of disinformation. In contrast to claims that "fake news" is a product of new media, this course historicizes problematic information in the West as a perennial tool for maintaining existing power hierarchies.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan or permisson of the Department. 

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate ethical approaches to the problem of media disinformation.
2. Critically interrogate the assertion that the past constituted a time of greater political agreement and epistemic consistency.
3. Define disinformation in a global context.
4. Expand focus from media-centric explanations of disinformation to include considerations of race, gender, economics, corporate interests, state interests, and other historical actors.
5. Understand disinformation in historical context by familiarizing with historical examples of disinformation campaigns that reinforced structural inequalities.  

FILM 312  Screenwriting  Units: 3.00  Instructor: M. Currie - Winter 2027

This is an intermediate writing course that focuses on film development. Students analyze examples from existing works and, through practical exercises, prepare a short, original screenplay.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Seminar, 72 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 257/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop an artistic approach and application of their ideas.
2. Demonstrate advanced screenwriting skills through content development and revision process.
3. Realize film stories in short screenplay format.
4. Develop presentational skills through pitching.

 FILM 318  Curating Media Practices  Units: 3.00  Instructor: G. Menotti - Winter 2027

This engages students with a broad sphere of curatorial activities within and beyond the film industry and contemporary visual arts. Students will explore the role of curatorial practices in media, science, and culture through class discussions, field trips to various exhibition sites and events, and the organization of a final exhibition project.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or permission of the Department. 

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Experience a wide-range of exhibition formats and configurations.
2. Acquire a critical-historical understanding of exhibition spaces and modes of spectatorship.
3. Identify the role of curatorial practices in contemporary economies of attention and memory.
4. Structure exhibition projects appropriate to a given work/context.
5. Mobilize curatorship as a mode of knowledge that can be deployed in research.  

FILM 320  Media and the Arts  Units: 3.00  Instructor: A. Na - Winter 2027

This course is an intermediate study of the complex relationships between media forms and the visual and performing arts. It asks how art forms and styles engage with or deploy new media technologies and infrastructures. At the same time, it asks how media have shaped and continue to shape aesthetics and public understandings of the arts.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or permission of the Department. 

1. Acquire skills to engage in critical analysis of representation and self-representation.
2. Critically articulate in academic writing the implications of media and art.
3. Produce media art creations that engage with the major themes and concepts from course materials.
4. Parse and evaluate divergent perspectives on the role of – and cultural impact of – media in the production of art. 

 FILM 325  Cinemas in Canada: Anglo-Canadian/Quebecois(e)/Indigenous  Units: 3.00  Instructor: K. Bertrand - Fall 2026

This course examines fiction filmmaking from Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois(e), and Indigenous filmmakers, examining a variety of works produced from the 1950s onwards. We pay special attention to questions of experimental narrative form (such as documentary/fiction hybrids), national and Indigenous identities, and the role of various funding programs.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or permission of the Department.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Consider the confluences and differences between works done in Anglo-Canada, Quebec, and Indigenous communities in the fictional narrative form.
2. Deploy critical theories in the examination of these works in terms of questions of national identities.
3. Examine the aesthetics of Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois(e), and Indigenous Canadian cinemas.
4. Understand the history of Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois(e), and Indigenous cinema in Canada.  

 FILM 332  Queer Cinemas  Units: 3.00  Instructor: T. de Szegheo Lang - Winter 2027

This course will examine the development of queer filmmaking practices in Hollywood and beyond. It will also introduce the field of queer cinema studies, attending to questions of identity, representation, authorship, and spectatorship. Students will cover a diverse array of topics, with a focus on historical, artistic, and industry contexts.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (registration in a GNDS Plan and GNDS 120/3.0 and GNDS 125/3.0).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Contextualize evolutions in film form and narrative within changing political landscapes.
2. Cultivate an appreciation for queer aesthetics, history, scholarship, and the integral role queer artists and scholars have played in shaping filmmaking practices and criticism.
3. Demonstrate inclusive and accountable film criticism and research while completing written assignments and participating in class discussions on history, identity and representation.
4. Explain critical theoretical concepts in queer cinema studies in relation to the evolution of film form, production, history, and politics of representation.
5. Use key readings in queer theory and film studies to analyze formal and structural elements in select screenings.  

FILM 335  Culture and Technology - ONLINE Units: 3.00  Instructor: P. Gauthier - Fall 2026

This course shall examine the role played by technology, and especially communications technology, in the 20th and 21st centuries. We will then examine both analog and digital media technologies and see how they have affected our understanding of our world and ourselves..
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Online Activity, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or permission of the Department.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe technology as expansive and explain how it shapes personal, societal, national, and global spheres.
2. Identify and engage in a variety of cultural media/texts--theoretical, artistic, and others.
3. Assess their roles as viewers/consumers/producers of cultural texts, including the ways in which they might be seduced into replicating--or potentially subvert--certain ideologies and power structures.
4. Research and develop a topic of interest related to culture and technology, and communicate findings through academic writing.  

FILM 343  Speculative Media Studies: Fictions, Fans, and Franchises  Units: 3.00  Instructor: A. Na - Fall 2026

A survey of speculative media, working around three organizing themes (fictions, fans, and franchises), this class will introduce key issues in speculative media studies. Students will explore various sub-cultural and popular SF or speculative genres, including science-fiction, fantasy, alternative history, and speculative futures.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 236/3.0 or FILM 240/3.0 or FILM 260/3.0).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Acquire skills to engage in critical analysis of speculative media.
2. Critically articulate in academic writing the implications of speculative media in relation to representation, authorship, audience, and/or capital.
3. Engage transmedial fandom through participant observation.
4. Evaluate speculative media practices, personally, and globally.
5. Navigate and parse divergent perspectives on speculative media content, form, and cultural impact.
6. Understand speculative media from a perspective of fiction, fans, and franchises. 

FILM 346  Global Television: Format, Audience, and Platform  Units: 3.00  Instructor: P. Gauthier Fall 2026

FILM 351  Documentary Production  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Elon - Fall 2026

Advanced motion picture production course. Each student produces a short documentary using video and/or 16mm film. Emphasis will be placed on unconventional approaches and techniques.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop critical film viewing and writing skills.
2. Gain a theoretical understanding of experimental documentary media forms, methods, and histories as the basis for students own documentary production.
3. Work on technical skills to plan, research. produce, direct and edit a documentary. 

 FILM 352  Production: Issues of Form and Structure  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Manning - Winter 2027

Advanced practical course in film and video aesthetics. Starting with the screening and analysis of selected works, each student will script, produce and edit a short video or 16mm work that explores particular formal questions. Emphasis will be placed on unconventional approaches and techniques.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to plan, execute, and deliver an intended visual approach from pre-production to production and post-production.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use lighting, frame composition, and camera awareness to create mood or to communicate story.
3. Understand image and sound capture tools: control methodologies, media and formats, production logistics and approaches.
4. Understand key lighting and production tools and uses.
5. Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story. 

FILM 359  Film and Media Practicum Units: 6.00    Instructor: A. Jansen - Fall 2026/Winter 2027

This course enables participants to complete more than 120 hours of industry-focused practical experience through a combination of workshops, training exercises, local field trips, festivals and events, combined with various curated hands-on production opportunities, short work placements and/or self-directed studies.

Learning Hours: 240 (36 Lecture, 36 Laboratory, 120 Practicum, 48 Private Study)

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP. or COFI plan) and FILM 250/3.0.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Develop industry-focused skills through experiential learning
2. Participate in professional media making context
3. Manage time in multiple professional contexts
4. Train in skills applicable to working with media events
5. Reflect on professional experience and apply learning to academic skills in Film and Media

FILM 370  The Experimental Tradition  Units: 3.00  Instructor: S. MacKenzie - Fall 2026

Intermediate critical and historical study in the avant-garde of the international cinema, based on selected examples principally from Europe, the United States, and Canada.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or permission of the Department.

Course Learning Outcomes:

1.  Analyze the history and theory of experimental aesthetics.
2. Understand the European, North American, and global experimental film traditions.
3. Engage with historical timeline of experimental film and its social and cultural contexts.
4. Develop original arguments and interpretations related to experimental films, directors, and their critics.

FILM 387  Cinematography and Visual Aesthetics  Units: 3.00  Instructor: R. Randall  - Fall 2026 or Winter 2027

Advanced practical course in cinematography and visual aesthetics. Through a series of lectures, practical exercises, and screenings; students will explore visual aesthetics and the techniques employed to author motion picture images with intent and consistency.

Learning Hours: 120 (30 Lecture, 30 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate the ability to plan, execute, and deliver an intended visual approach from pre-production to production and post-production.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use lighting, frame composition, and camera awareness to create mood or to communicate story.
3. Understand image and sound capture tools: control methodologies, media and formats, production logistics and approaches.
4. Understand key lighting and production tools and uses.
5. Understand the relation of visual aesthetics and techniques to create mood and communicate story.  

FILM 392  Video Production  Units: 3.00  Instructor: A. Guerrero Cortes - Fall 2026

This course covers production techniques, including planning, production, and postproduction topics. Students can explore a variety of genres and forms and will undertake a series of short exercises aimed at building technical skills. Specific themes covered will depend on the instructor.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess and critique aesthetic, theoretical and social issues in one's own work and the work of others.
2. Design lighting appropriate for the style and subject of a video.
3. Examine a variety of contemporary contexts for professional and artistic video production.
4. Implement a wide range of editing techniques and strategies.
5. Implement the planning, producing, and revising a media project with well founded artistic strategies.
6. Manipulate effectively key aspects of cinematography and sound production.
7. Recognize a variety of aesthetic approaches to video production.  

FILM 394  Post-Production  Units: 3.00  Instructor: J. Norton - Fall 2026 or Winter 2027

This course covers moving-image post-production techniques, including workflow planning, stages of editing, sound mixing, colour correction, special effects, and media management.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite ANIM 200/3.0 or (registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan).    

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Understand editing language in relation to both theory (effects of shot choice, duration and sequencing) and practice (maintaining scene geography, continuity).
2. Manage edit workflows: NLE fundamentals (examining a variety of software tools and their commonalities), media management (assembly, rough cut, fine cut), logging, transcoding, output, bouncing to and from other software tools, and image management (codecs, export).
3. Demonstrate ability to use motion graphics: titles, transitions, basic animation, and key frame manipulation.
4. Design post-production soundscapes: sound design, foley, score, dialogue editing, re-recording mix, ADR, sound mixing.
5. Implement a wide variety of post-production and SFX techniques: colour correction, compositing effects, adding/creating CG elements.
6. Develop skills in various software platforms (Premiere Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, Media Encoder, After Effects).  

FILM 395  Internship  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Vena - Fall 2026 or Winter 2027

Students can apply to undertake a practical internship in media production, criticism or curatorship. All internships must be approved in advance by application to the Undergraduate Coordinator. Approval will depend on the quality of the proposal and the academic record of the applicant. Students are required to write a report about their experience and are evaluated jointly by their employer and a faculty member from Film and Media. It is the responsibility of students, not the Department of Film and Media, to arrange internships.
NOTE Students will be given a grade of Pass/Fail for work done.

Learning Hours: 120 (120 Individual Instruction)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan and permission of the Department. Exclusion ARTH 395/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Evaluate the needs of a project or company while working on-site.
2. Comprehend new strategies for interacting with professionals in the field.
3. Synthesize the value of a professional experience toward an overall career goal.
4. Apply problem-solving skills in a real-world professional context.  

FILM 396  16mm Film Production  Units: 3.00  Instructor: R. Randall - Winter 2027

The 16mm Film Production course investigates the history of the format and integrates it into practical applications within modern motion imaging creation. In this practical course, students will learn how to handle a variety of 16mm production and post-production equipment and understand photographic exposure and laboratory processes. We'll explore ways of utilizing motion picture film beyond the camera and screen through alternate creation techniques. The course culminates in a colour 16mm film shoot using sync sound and prepares it for use in a modern digital post-production workflow.
NOTE Film Stock and Processing: estimated cost $90.

Learning Hours: 120 (30 Lecture, 30 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM Specialization, Major, Joint Honours, MAPP, or COFI Plan, and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, handle, and work with the motion-picture film medium.
2. Use motion-picture specific equipment (cameras, editors, and projection).
3. Demonstrate an understanding of the photochemical process (exposure and workflow).
4. Demonstrate an understanding of how traditional photochemical processes inter/relate to current media-making practices.  

FILM 397  Sound Techniques for Film and Video Productions  Units: 3.00  Instructor: S. Bates - Winter 2027

Sound Techniques for Film and Video Productions is an advanced-level course that focuses on approaches used in the production and post-production of a film and video project. Beginning with location audio recordings and synchronizing with camera footage, managing multiple performers, microphone placement and multi-tracking and on to editing, ADR and mixing. This course will take students through the entire production workflow from set to exhibition.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan and FILM 250/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify, handle, and work with specialized audio recording equipment.
2. Identify and mitigate common issues with location audio.
3. Understand and execute a creatively focused sound design that complements pictorial elements.
4. Demonstrate understanding of acoustic and physical space through mixing and spatializing.
5. Demonstrate an understanding of non-diegetic sound and effects on a central story.
6. Understand the entire aural workflow in a traditional film and video production.

The Stage and Screen (STSC) Specialization has been redesigned as Media and Performance Production (MAPP) Specialization.  Students currently enrolled in the Stage and Screen Specialization will still be able to complete this degree but some of the required courses have been renamed as MAPP courses.

MAPP 200  Media and Performance I  Units: 3.00  Instructor: E. Pelstring - Fall 2026

This introductory course explores the integration of media and performance across a variety of contexts beyond traditional theatre and film. Students will be introduced to key theoretical concepts through which media and performance intersect, and will mobilize these concepts through their own original intermedial performance projects.
NOTE Administered by the Department of Film and Media

Learning Hours: 120 (24 Seminar, 36 Group Learning, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a MAPP, FILM, DRAM, MUSC, or MUTH plan.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze media and performance in terms of some key concepts applied to media-performance intersections in the field of performance studies.
2. Analyze the material and embodied dimensions of media/cultural practices.
3. Conduct technical research and select appropriate tools for interdisciplinary projects.
4. Contextualize media-performance intersections in terms of historical periods, artistic movements and political events within the last century.
5. Contextualize media-performance intersections in terms of their circulation networks and audiences.
6. Design and execute original performance projects integrating new approaches to performance.

MAPP 300  Media and Performance II  Units: 3.00  Instructor: G. Menotti - Winter 2027

The course explores the relationship between different media within and across traditional domains such as theatre, film, art, dance, and music. It also focuses on the multiplicity of interactive forms that encompass digital media, by studying digital media practices beyond changing art forms, commercial, and non-profit realms.
NOTE Administered by the Department of Film and Media

Learning Hours: 120 (24 Seminar, 36 Group Learning, 60 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a MAPP, FILM, DRAM, MUSC, or MUTH plan. Equivalency STSC 339/3.0.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Employ and create media tools for performance.
2. Mobilize the skills acquired throughout MAPP 200 and MAPP 300 in the making of collaborative projects.
3. Play with contextual and technological constraints for the creation of performances.
4. Understand in which ways objects, spaces, and media systems might convey identity and frame the performing body.  

MAPP 366  Media Installation Art  Units: 3.00  Instructor: E. Pelstring  - Winter 2027

This course guides students through the creation of audiovisual artworks designed for physical sites: galleries, museums, public spaces or outdoor sites. We will study aesthetic strategies and technologies for spatializing media through the history of expanded cinema and animation, sound art, installation art, and post-disciplinary approaches to art-making.
NOTE Administered by the Department of Film and Media.

Learning Hours: 120 (24 Lecture, 36 Laboratory, 24 Group Learning, 36 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Level 3 or above and [registration in a DRAM, FILM, MAPP Plan] or [MUSC 256/3.0]).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Design media installations to communicate their observations about a chosen research topic, whether social, personal or technical
2. Manipulate the scale, proximity and mobility of media to mobilize a variety of spatialization strategies for sound and video
3. Apply knowledge of art-historical precedents to build upon a tradition of installation art
4. Analyze their own and one another’s prototypes, designs and mockups to determine technical problems common to installation art production and choose appropriate solutions.  

MAPP 395  Internship  Units: 3.00  Instructor: D. Vena - Fall 2026 or Winter 2027

Students can apply to undertake a practical internship in media or performance production, criticism, or curatorship. Approval will depend on the quality of the proposal and the academic record of the applicant. It is the responsibility of students, not the departments, to arrange internships. Internships can be completed in any academic term.
NOTE Students will be given a grade of Pass/Fail for work done.

Learning Hours: 120 (120 Individual Instruction)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in the MAPP Specialization and permission of the Department. Exclusion DRAM 395; FILM 395; MUSC 395; MUTH 395; MUTH 396.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Apply problem-solving skills in a real-world professional context.
2. Comprehend new strategies for interacting with professionals in the field.
3. Evaluate the needs of a project or company while working on-site.
4. Synthesize the value of a professional experience toward an overall career goal.  

MAPP 400  Media and Performance Major Project  Units: 6.00  Instructor: S. Bahng -  Fall 2026 / Winter 2027

This course focuses on creating projects at the intersection of media and performance through multidisciplinary approaches. Building on MAPP 200/3.0 and MAPP 300/3.0, students will engage with experimental and artistic practices that incorporate diverse media forms and digital technologies. They will also strengthen their collaboration and problem-solving skills while pushing the boundaries of creative exploration within a professional context.
NOTE This course is administered by the Department of Film and Media.
NOTE Admission to Livestreamed Performances: estimated cost $100.

Learning Hours: 216(72 Lecture, 144 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a MAPP, FILM, DRAM, MUSC, or MUTH plan and MAPP 300. Exclusion IDIS 410.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Identify and discuss the artistic and creative roles of various digital technologies.
2. Translate artistic languages to fit into the specific media properties and expand boundaries of traditional art forms.
3. Develop ideas and strategies to transform theoretical research into concepts for media and performance production.
4. Work reflectively, critically and collaboratively to conceptualize and design cross-disciplinary art projects. 

 MAPP 401  Special Topic in Media and Performance  Units: 3.00  Instructor: S. Bahng - Winter 2027

An advanced course that develops expertise in media and performance through creative research and practice, engaging with diverse digital technologies and different forms of mediation.
NOTE This course is repeatable for credit under different topic titles.

Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 24 Laboratory, 30 Group Learning, 30 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite Registration in a DRAM, FILM, MAPP, MUSC, or MUTH plan.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Analyze media and performance in terms of some key concepts applied to media-performance intersections.
2. Understand various forms of performative practice and expanded media in the creative arts.
3. Understand media and performance traditions within their historical context.
4. Operate and integrate digital media within performative practice.
5. Formulate arguments and/or make creative and aesthetic decisions, and defend those choices.

FILM 240  Introduction to Popular Culture  Units: 3.00  Online  Instructor: P.Gauthier  - Winter 2027

This course on the dynamics between media and popular culture takes an interrogative approach. It is organized around a series of questions that will introduce students to a range of key concepts in media and mass communication studies, with the goal of providing a theoretical structure to support critical analysis of contemporary cultural trends.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 36 Online Activity, 36 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate relationships between specific concepts from the major theories and schools of thought used to study popular culture.
2. Develop original thoughts to answer fundamental questions such as what is popular culture, how is it made and how does it affect us, what are its functions and the relations of power surrounding it.
3. Develop critical perspectives on media and popular culture through written analysis of a particular issue.
4. Judge different forms of popular culture and explore how various social/artistic expressions gain mass popularity.

FILM 260  Digital Media Theory  Units: 3.00   Online      Instructor: P.Gauthier - Summer 2027

Survey of digital media theories and online mass communication practices, with emphasis on social and mobile technologies. Course considers the impact of digitalization on the creative and culture industries.
NOTE Only offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online.

Learning Hours: 120 (72 Online Activity, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite None.  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Articulate relationships between specific concepts from the major theories and schools of thought used to study digital media.
2. Assess creative works using digital theory.
3. Design short works in digital platforms, informed by digital media theory.
4. Evaluate the role of digital media in contemporary culture.
5. Review new digital media in a critical manner. 

FILM 335  Culture and Technology  Units: 3.00   Online Instructor: P.Gauthier  - Fall 2026

Research and studies in relations of media, technology, and culture. Critical examination of cultural and communication technologies and the employment of technology within selected examples from film, television, and digital media.
NOTE Also offered online. Consult Arts and Science Online. Learning Hours may vary.

Learning Hours: 108 (36 Lecture, 24 Online Activity, 48 Private Study)  

Requirements: Prerequisite (Registration in a FILM, MAPP, or COFI Plan) or (FILM 236 and FILM 240).  

Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Assess their roles as viewers/consumers/producers of cultural texts, including the ways in which they might be seduced into replicating--or potentially subvert--certain ideologies and power structures.
2. Evaluate technology as expansive and explain how it shapes personal, societal, national, and global spheres.
3. Identify and engage in a variety of cultural media/texts--theoretical, artistic, and others.
4. Research and develop a topic of interest related to culture and technology, and communicate findings through academic writing.