Admission requirements
Prospective Cultural Studies students can declare a Cultural Studies major, combined major or minor at any time.
Major in Cultural Studies
First and Second Years
B.A. requirements, including the following:
- CULT_O 100, 101;
- 3 credits of CULT_O courses numbered from 200 to 229;
- 3 credits of CULT_O courses numbered from 230 to 299;
- 3 credits of 200-level courses from:
ANTH_O 205, 218, 252; ARTH_O, CRWR_O 205, 210, 219, 250, 260; DIHU_O, GEOG_O 255; GWST_O, INDG_O 201, 202, 203, SOCI_O 212, 216, 217, 219, 226, 228, 231, 249; THTR_O 204, 211, 212, VISA_O 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 |
| CULT_O 300 Documentary and Docudrama (ENGL_O 378) |
| CULT_O 301 Media Studies and Popular Cultures: Areas and Themes |
| CULT_O 303 Narrative Film Production (FILM_O 303; THTR_O 303) |
| CULT_O 305 English-Canadian Screen Culture (ENGL_O 377) |
| CULT_O 308 Digital Humanities: Areas and Themes (DIHU_O 308) |
| CULT_O 312 Internet Culture |
| CULT_O 313 Topics in Transnational Asian Pop Culture |
| CULT_O 315 Television Studies (ENGL_O 376) |
| CULT_O 317 Digital Documentary Production (FILM_O 371) |
| CULT_O 320 Creative Activism: Art, Media, and Social Justice (ARTH_O 323) |
| CULT_O 325 Media and the Politics of Identity |
| CULT_O 362 Advance Practice in Photography (VISA_O 362) |
| CULT_O 382 Advanced Practice in Media Communications (VISA_O 382) |
| CULT_O 384 Spoken Word (THTR_O 384; CRWR_O 384) |
| CULT_O 400 Topics in Popular Culture (ENGL_O 493) |
| CULT_O 401 Topics in Media Studies |
| CULT_O 406 Digital Afterlives (DIHU_O 406) |
| CULT_O 405 Reading Gothic Film (ENGL_O 455) |
| CULT_O 409 Topics in Digital Humanities (DIHU_O 409, ENGL_O 409) |
| CULT_O 410 Asian Cinema |
| ARTH_O 301 Critical Viewing - Advanced Studies |
| ARTH_O 410 Gender, Art, and Space in the Islamic World |
| Identities and Power List |
| CULT_O 309 Performance Art: Global Perspectives (ARTH_O 309, THTR_O 309) |
| CULT_O 340 Colonialism and Decolonization (ENGL_O 379) |
| CULT_O 346 Human Rights, Literature, and Culture (ENGL_O 384) |
| CULT_O 350 Indigenous Literature: Intellectual Traditions (ENGL_O 387) |
| CULT_O 351 Settler Studies, Literature, and Culture (ENGL_O 385) |
| CULT_O 360 Public Memory, Commemoration, and Identity |
| CULT_O 370 Writing the Self: Theory and Practice (GWST_O 340) |
| CULT_O 371 Modern Critical Theory and Interdisciplinary Methods (ENGL_O 309) |
| CULT_O 375 Auto/Biography Survey (ENGL_O 342) |
| CULT_O 390 Identities and Power: Areas and Themes |
| CULT_O 411 Performance Studies (THTR_O 411) |
| CULT_O 437 Postcolonial Studies (ENGL_O 437) |
| CULT_O 450 Studies in Indigenous Literature and Criticism (ENGL_O 473) |
| CULT_O 460 Posthumanism and Critical Animal Studies (ENGL_O 457) |
| CULT_O 470 Interdisciplinary Studies in Critical Theory (ENGL_O 412) |
| CULT_O 475 Topics in Auto/Biography (ENGL_O 456) |
| CULT_O 485 Masculinities, Media, and Performance |
| CULT_O 490 Topics in Identities and Power |
| CULT_O 491 Black Intellectual Traditions (ENGL_O 491) |
| ANTH_O 355 Ethnography of Development |
| ANTH_O 377 Sociolinguistics |
| ANTH_O 401 Contemporary Theory in Anthropology |
| GEOG_O 359 Culture, Space, and Politics |
| GEOG_O 480 Advanced Seminar in Critical Geography |
| GWST_O 333 Perspectives on Gendered Bodies |
| GWST_O 335 Gender and Women's Studies in Humanities |
| GWST_O 419 (3) Gender, Dress, and Fashion: Histories and Theories |
| HIST_O 352 Class and Culture in Latin America |
| INDG_O 301 Examining Indigenous Methodology: En'owkinwixw |
| INDG_O 303 Indigenous Studies Theory and Methodology |
| INDG_O 305 Indigenous Justice |
| INDG_O 306 Indigenous Land Claims |
| INDG_O 308 Indigenous Culture, Heritage, and Intellectual Property |
| INDG_O 310 Gender Nation State Resistance |
| INDG_O 420 Indigenous Perspectives on Food, Place, Identity, and Biodiversity |
| INDG_O 440 Residential Schools and Reconciliation |
| INDG_O 450 Women Feminisms Activisms |
| SOCI_O 301 Sociology of Development and Underdevelopment |
| SOCI_O 313 Advanced Studies in Sociology of Gender |
| SOCI_O 320 Cultural Studies in Sociology |
| SOCI_O 371 Deviance and Social Control |
| SOCI_O 415 Feminist Theory |
| SOCI_O 430 Labour in a Global Economy |
| SOCI_O 467 Social Movements |
| Other Cultural Studies Courses |
| CULT_O 495 Directed Studies |
| CULT_O 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_O 100, 101;
- 6 credits of 200-level CULT_O, with at least 3 credits from CULT_O 200 TO 229 and 3 credits from CULT_O 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_O designated courses from each of the following: 1) Media and Popular Cultures, 2) Identities and Power; and
- including 3 credits of CULT_O designated courses at the 400-level.
Minor in Cultural Studies
To complete a Minor in Cultural Studies, students must complete the following:
- CULT_O 100, 101;
- 6 credits of 200-level CULT_O; 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_O designated courses at the 400-level.