Major in Cultural Studies
First and Second Years
B.A. requirements, including the following:
- CULT 100, 101;
- 3 credits of CULT courses numbered from 200 to 229;
- 3 credits of CULT courses numbered from 230 to 299;
- 3 credits of 200-level courses from:
ANTH 205, 218, 252; ARTH, CRWR 205, 210, 219, 250, 260; DIHU, GEOG 255; GWST, INDG 201, 202, 203, SOCI 212, 216, 217, 219, 226, 228, 231, 249; THTR 204, 211, 212, VISA 200, 201, 206, 244, 261, 266, 268, 269
Third and Fourth Years
30 credits from the 300- and 400-level courses below with at least 9 credits of CULT designated courses in each of the two lists (Media and Popular Cultures and Identities and Power), including at least 6 credits of CULT designated courses at the 400-level.
| Media and Popular Cultures Course List |
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| CULT 300 Documentary and Docudrama (ENGL 378) |
| CULT 301 Media Studies and Popular Cultures: Areas and Themes |
| CULT 303 Narrative Film Production (FILM 303; THTR 303) |
| CULT 305 English-Canadian Screen Culture (ENGL 377) |
| CULT 308 Digital Humanities: Areas and Themes (DIHU 308) |
| CULT 312 Internet Culture |
| CULT 313 Topics in Transnational Asian Pop Culture |
| CULT 315 Television Studies (ENGL 376) |
| CULT 317 Digital Documentary Production (FILM 371) |
| CULT 320 Creative Activism: Art, Media, and Social Justice (ARTH 323) |
| CULT 325 Media and the Politics of Identity |
| CULT 362 Advance Practice in Photography (VISA 362) |
| CULT 382 Advanced Practice in Media Communications (VISA 382) |
| CULT 384 Spoken Word (THTR 384; CRWR 384) |
| CULT 400 Topics in Popular Culture (ENGL 493) |
| CULT 401 Topics in Media Studies |
| CULT 405 Reading Gothic Film (ENGL 455) |
| CULT 409 Topics in Digital Humanities (DIHU 409, ENGL 409) |
| CULT 410 Asian Cinema |
| ARTH 301 Critical Viewing - Advanced Studies |
| ARTH 410 Gender, Art, and Space in the Islamic World |
| Identities and Power List |
| CULT 309 Performance Art: Global Perspectives (ARTH 309, THTR 309) |
| CULT 340 Colonialism and Decolonization (ENGL 379) |
| CULT 346 Human Rights, Literature, and Culture (ENGL 384) |
| CULT 350 Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions (ENGL 387) |
| CULT 351 Settler Studies, Literature, and Culture (ENGL 385) |
| CULT 360 Public Memory, Commemoration, and Identity |
| CULT 370 Writing the Self: Theory and Practice (GWST 340) |
| CULT 371 Modern Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods (ENGL 309) |
| CULT 375 Auto/Biography Survey (ENGL 342) |
| CULT 390 Identities and Power: Areas and Themes |
| CULT 411 Performance Studies (THTR 411) |
| CULT 437 Postcolonial Studies (ENGL 437) |
| CULT 450 Studies in Indigenous Literature and Criticism (ENGL 473) |
| CULT 460 Posthumanism and Critical Animal Studies (ENGL 457) |
| CULT 470 Interdisciplinary Studies in Critical Theory (ENGL 412) |
| CULT 475 Topics in Auto/Biography (ENGL 456) |
| CULT 485 Masculinities, Media, and Performance |
| CULT 490 Topics in Identities and Power |
| ANTH 355 Ethnography of Development |
| ANTH 377 Sociolinguistics |
| ANTH 401 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology |
| GEOG 359 Culture, Space, and Politics |
| GEOG 480 Advanced Seminar in Critical Geography |
| GWST 333 Perspectives on Gendered Bodies |
| GWST 335 Gender and Women's Studies in Humanities |
| GWST 419 (3) Gender, Dress, and Fashion: Histories and Theories |
| HIST 352 Class and Culture in Latin America |
| INDG 301 Examining Indigenous Methodology: En'owkinwixw |
| INDG 303 Indigenous Studies Theory and Methodology |
| INDG 305 Indigenous Justice |
| INDG 306 Indigenous Land Claims |
| INDG 308 Indigenous Culture, Heritage, and Intellectual Property |
| INDG 310 Gender Nation State Resistance |
| INDG 420 Indigenous Perspectives on Food, Place, Identity, and Biodiversity |
| INDG 440 Residential Schools and Reconciliation |
| INDG 450 Women Feminisms Activisms |
| SOCI 301 Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment |
| SOCI 313 Advanced Studies in Sociology of Gender |
| SOCI 320 Cultural Studies in Sociology |
| SOCI 371 Deviance and Social Control |
| SOCI 415 Feminist Theory |
| SOCI 430 Labour in a Global Economy |
| SOCI 467 Social Movements |
| Other Cultural Studies Courses |
| CULT 495 Directed Studies |
| CULT 499 Community-Engaged Research in Cultural Studies |
Not all courses will be offered each year; the program will publish the list of offered courses on a year-to-year basis at Cultural Studies.
Some of this program's third and fourth year course options are from other established programs, which may have program-based prerequisites that will limit students' choices. Students are advised to make themselves aware of these prerequisites as they plan their degrees.
Combined Major with Cultural Studies
A combined major is created by satisfying the requirements for a combined major in Cultural Studies and another B.A. program that offers a combined major (currently Art History and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, English and French. A single course can only fulfill the combined major requirement for one program.
The Cultural Studies requirements for the combined major include the following:
First and Second Years
B.A. requirements, including the following:
- CULT 100, 101;
- 6 credits of 200-level CULT, with at least 3 credits from CULT 200 TO 229 and 3 credits from CULT 230 to 299.
Third and Fourth Years
- 21 credits of 300- and 400-level courses from the course lists provided for the major, with:
- At least 6 credits of CULT designated courses from each of the following: 1) Media and Popular Cultures, 2) Identities and Power; and
- including 3 credits of CULT designated courses at the 400-level.
Minor in Cultural Studies
To complete a Minor in Cultural Studies, students must complete the following:
- CULT 100, 101;
- 6 credits of 200-level CULT; and
- at least 18 credits of 300- or 400-level courses applicable to the Major in Cultural Studies, at least 3 credits of which must be CULT designated courses at the 400-level.