Cultural Studies students take courses from four areas of concentration leading to general or specialist degrees (see Degree Requirements). These areas of concentration are:
Courses included in each area of concentration are listed below. Some courses include material from multiple areas of concentration, and are therefore included in multiple lists. If you'd rather browse by level, see Courses by Year. A fully described list of courses can be found in the Academic Calendar.
A: Integrated Arts
CUST 1510H: Introduction to the Integrated Arts
CUST 2016Y: Introduction to Visual Studies
CUST 2045Y: Music and Society
CUST-WMST 2065Y: Sex / Sexuality / Sexual Difference
CUST-ERST 2114H: Workshop: Ecological Art
CUST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
CUST 2526H: Workshop: Narrative and Performance
CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
CUST 2572H: Workshop: Performance and Protest
CUST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
CUST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
CUST 3111Y: Workshop: Visual Arts Studio
CUST 3142H: Workshop: Experimental Music
CUST 3143H: Workshop: Electronic Music
CUST 3175Y: Workshop: Staging Ideas
CUST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
CUST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
CUST 3515H: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
CUST 3542H: Music Studies: The Black Atlantic
CUST 3543H: Music Studies: Local Roots and Global Routes
CUST 3545H: Music and Media – An Archaeology
CUST 3556H/3056Y: Place Matters – Art, Letters, and Landscape
CUST 3572H: Workshop: Epic Theatre
CUST 3573H: Workshop: Theatre of the Absurd
CUST 3580H/3080Y: Text and Image
CUST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiment and Innovation
CUST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
CUST 3900Y/3901H/3902H: Reading Course
CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
CUST 4070Y: Advanced Studies in Theatre and the Performing Arts
CUST 4173H: Workshop: Adaptation and Performance
CUST 4515H/4015Y: Art Culture Theory
CUST-POST 4538H: Media Ecologies
CUST 4580H/4080Y: Text and Image
CUST 4586H: Cinema in the Digital Age
CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course
B: Literature & Narrative
CUST 1520H: Introduction to World Literature
CUST 2029Y: Science Fiction
CUST 2522H/2022Y: Culture and the Novel
CUST 2526H: Workshop: Narrative and Performance
CUST 2527H: Surrealism and the Languages of Narrative
CUST 2528H: West Indian Storytelling (World Literature)
CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
CUST 3029Y: Utopia (Future Fiction)
CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
CUST-INDG 3128H: Indigenous Science Fiction and Speculative Storytelling
CUST 3175Y: Workshop: Staging Ideas
CUST 3515H: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
CUST 3522H/3022Y: Experimental Fiction
CUST 3572H: Workshop: Epic Theatre
CUST 3900Y/3901H/3902H: Reading Course
CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
CUST 4173H: Workshop: Adaptation and Performance
CUST-FREN-CAST: Quebec Science Fiction and Fantasy
CUST 4512H: Arts of Conflict: Violence, Art, and the Irish Republican Army
CUST 4521H: Advanced Topics in Narrative: Shipwrecks and Castaways
CUST 4522H: Advanced Topics in Narrative: Handcuffed to (Literary) History
CUST 4523H: Shapeshifters: Narrative Adaptations across Media
CUST 4529H/4029Y: Advanced Studies in Science Fiction
CUST-FREN 4611H: Literature and Contestation
C: Film & Media
CUST 1535H: Introduction to Media Studies
CUST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society
CUST-WMST 2065Y: Sex / Sexuality / Sexual Difference
CUST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
CUST-WMST 2210H: Gender and Popular Culture
CUST 2236H: New Media Literacy
CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
CUST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
CUST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
CUST-CAST 3031H: Television in Canada
CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
CUST 3111Y: Workshop: Visual Arts Studio
CUST 3133H: Workshop: Game Design
CUST 3139H: Workshop: Radio and Podcast
CUST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
CUST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
CUST-POST 3465H: Politics and Film
CUST-POST 3475H: Media of Politics
CUST 3515H: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
CUST 3531H: Mass Media and War
CUST-IDST 3532H/3032Y: Issues in Global Media
CUST 3533H: Game Studies
CUST 3535H: Television Studies
CUST 3538H: Radio Studies
CUST 3545H: Music and Media – An Archaeology
CUST 3580H/3080Y: Text and Image
CUST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiment and Innovation
CUST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
CUST-ANTH 3748H: Anthropology of Animation
CUST 3900Y/3901H/3902H: Reading Course
CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
CUST-HIST 4090Y: American Visual Culture
CUST 4136H: Workshop: Digital Media Lab
CUST-FREN 4302H: Francophone Cinema
CUST 4523: Shapeshifters: Narrative Adaptations across Media
CUST 4535H/4035Y: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
CUST-POST 4538H: Media Ecologies
CUST 4565H: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies
CUST 4580H/4080Y: Text and Image
CUST 4586H: Cinema in the Digital Age
CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course
D: Culture & Theory
CUST 1500H: Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture
CUST 2016Y: Introduction to Visual Studies
CUST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society
CUST 2045Y: Music and Society
CUST-WMST 2065Y: Sex / Sexuality / Sexual Difference
CUST-INDG 2300Y: Introduction to Key Concepts and Issues in Post-Colonial Theory
CUST 2527H: Surrealism and the Languages of Narrative
CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
CUST 2560H/2060Y: The Making of the Modern Body
CUST 2572H: Workshop: Performance and Protest
CUST 3029Y: Utopia (Future Fiction)
CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
CUST-WMST 3250H: Queer Feminisms
CUST 3531H: Mass Media and War
CUST-IDST 3532H/3032Y: Issues in Global Media
CUST 3550H: Studies in Cultural Theory
CUST 3556H/3056Y: Place Matters – Art, Letters, and Landscape
CUST-POST 3570Y/3571H: Cultural Politics
CUST 3580H/3080Y: Text and Image
CUST 3900Y/3901H/3902H: Reading Course
CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
CUST 4173H: Workshop: Adaptation and Performance
CUST-WMST 4250: Queer Feminisms
CUST 4515H/4015Y: Art Culture Theory
CUST 4522H: Advanced Topics in Narrative: Handcuffed to (Literary) History
CUST 4529H/4029Y: Advanced Studies in Science Fiction
CUST 4535H/4035Y: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
CUST-POST 4538H: Media Ecologies
CUST 4550H: Advanced Studies in Cultural Theory
CUST 4565H: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies
CUST 4580H/4080Y: Text and Image
CUST 4586H: Cinema in the Digital Age
CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course