Film & Media
Learn how film, radio, television, popular culture, the news, and social media influence modern culture. In this specialization you’ll examine the theoretical and historical aspects of film and media while also creating your own portfolio of works. Small intensive workshops in photography, podcasting, filmmaking, visual arts, and game design will help you develop your media literacy and prepare you for a variety of dynamic careers.
Courses
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a single- or joint-major degree in Cultural Studies may graduate with a Specialization if they have successfully completed 4.0 CUST credits in the chosen Specialization category. The same course may not simultaneously count toward two or more Specializations.
- CUST-MDST 1535H: Introduction to Media Studies
- CUST-MDST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society
- CUST 2133H: Workshop in Video Essay Production
- CUST-MDST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
- CUST-WMST 2210H: Gender and Popular Culture
- CUST-MDST 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-MDST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
- CUST-MDST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
- CUST-AHCL-MDST 2650H: Antiquity on Screen
- CUST-HIST-ERST-MDST 2805H: Green Screen: Film and Environmental History
- CUST-CAST-MDST 3031H: Television in Canada
- CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
- CUST 3112Y: Workshop: Visual Arts StudioCUST-MDST 3133H: Workshop: Game Design
- CUST 3129H: Workshop in Worldbuilding
- CUST 3133H: Workshop: Game Design
- CUST-MDST 3139H: Workshop: Radio and Podcast
- CUST-MDST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
- CUST-MDST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
- CUST-POST-MDST 3465H: Politics and Film
- CUST-POST-MDST 3475H: Media of Politics
- CUST 3515H: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
- CUST-MDST 3530H: Social Media and Power
- CUST-MDST 3531H: Mass Media and War
- CUST-IDST-MDST 3532H/3032Y: Issues in Global Media
- CUST-COIS-MDST 3533H: Game Studies
- CUST-MDST 3535H: Television Studies
- CUST-MDST 3538H: Radio Studies
- CUST-MDST 3545H: Music and Media—An Archaeology
- CUST-MDST 3580H: Text and Image
- CUST-MDST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiement and Innovation
- CUST-MDST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
- CUST-ANTH-MDST 3748H: Anthropology of Animation
- CUST 3900Y/3901H/3092H: Reading Course
- CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
- CUST-MDST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
- CUST-HIST-MDST 4091H: American Visual Culture
- CUST-MDST 4136H: Workshop:Computational Arts
- CUST-FREN 4302H: Cinéma francophone / Francophone Cinema
- CUST-MDST 4523H: Shapeshifters: Narrative Adaptations Across Media
- CUST-MDST 4535H: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
- CUST-POST-MDST 4538H: Media Ecologies
- CUST 4565H: Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies
- CUST-MDST 4580H: Text and Image
- CUST-MDST 4586H: Workshop: Cinema in the Digital Age
- CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course
Degrees Offered:
- B.A.
- B.A. (Honours)
Locations:
- Peterborough
Resume Boosters:
- Put your media literacy to the test with hands-on workshops in game creation as well as podcast and radio broadcasting
- Use Super-8 and 16mm film to create your own experimental films
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Career Paths:
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Communications Specialist
This unit group includes specialists in advertising, marketing and public relations who analyse, develop and implement communication and promotion strategies and information programs, analyse advertising needs and develop appropriate advertising and marketing plans, publicize activities and events, and maintain media relations on behalf of businesses, governments and other organizations, and for performers, athletes, writers and other talented individuals. They are employed by consulting firms, advertising agencies, corporations, associations, government, social agencies, museums, galleries, public interest groups, and cultural and other organizations, or they may be self-employed. Agents such as entertainment, literary and sports agents are included in this unit group.
Career Opportunities
- TV and Radio Producer
- Advertising and Marketing Executive
- Author
- Web Content Manager
- Events Planner
- Game Creator
- Videographer
- Communications Specialist
- Journalist
- Cultural Critic
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