The Media Studies program is composed of courses drawn from a dozen different departments at Trent, giving you the opportunity to tailor your program to the academic approaches that make most sense to you. The contributing departments include:
- Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
- Anthropology
- Canadian Studies
- Computing & Information Systems
- Cultural Studies
- English Literature
- Gender & Women's Studies
- History
- Indigenous Studies
- Philosophy
- Political Studies
- Sociology
The courses that follow may or may not be offered in any given year, depending on the staffing decisions of the contributing departments. To find out whether a course is currently being offered, see the Trent Timetable. For full descriptions for these courses, see the Academic Calendar.
Ancient Greek & Roman Studies
MDST-AHCL 2650H: Antiquity on Screen
Anthropology
MDST-ANTH-COIS 3745H: Virtual Worlds: The Anthropology of Online Communities
MDST-ANTH 3747H: Language and Media
MDST-ANTH-CUST 3748H: Anthropology of Animation
MDST-ANTH 4820H: Anthropology of Technology
Canadian Studies
MDST-CAST-WMST 2600Y: Documenting Canada
MDST-CAST-CUST 3031H: TV Guide: The Canadian Media Industry
Computing & Information Systems
MDST-COIS 1010H: The Digital World (required)
MDST-COIS 2800H: Digital Culture
MDST-COIS 2830H: Multimedia and Design
MDST-COIS 3560H: Human-Computer Interaction
MDST-COIS 3820H: History and Impact of Computing
Cultural Studies
MDST-CUST 1535H: Introduction to Media Studies (required)
MDST-CUST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society (required)
MDST-CUST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
MDST-CUST 2236H: New Media Literacy
MDST-CUST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
MDST-CUST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film
MDST-CUST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
MDST-CUST 2236H: New Media Literacy
MDST-CUST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
MDST-CUST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
MDST-CUST 3133H: Workshop: Game Design
MDST-CUST 3139H: Workshop: Radio and Podcast
MDST-CUST 3142H: Workshop: Experimental Music
MDST-CUST 3143H: Workshop: Electronic Music Production
MDST-CUST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
MDST-CUST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
MDST-CUST 3531H: War and Media
MDST-CUST-IDST 3532H/3032Y: Issues in Global Media
MDST-CUST-COIS 3533H: Game Studies
MDST-CUST 3535H: Television Studies
MDST-CUST 3538H: Radio Studies
MDST-CUST 3545H: Music and Media—An Archaeology
MDST-CUST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiment and Innovation
MDST-CUST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
MDST-CUST 4035Y: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
MDST-CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
MDST-CUST 4136H: Workshop: Computational Arts
MDST-CUST 4523H: Shapeshifters: Narrative Adaptations Across Media
MDST-CUST-POST 4538H: Media Ecologies
MDST-CUST 4586H: Cinema in the Digital Age
English Literature
MDST-ENGL 3203H: Theatre and Journalism During the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
MDST-ENGL 3209H: The First Media Revolution
MDST-ENGL 3607H: Producing Punk
Gender & Women’s Studies
MDST-WMST-CUST 2210H: Gender and Popular Culture
MDST-WMST 2410H: The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Popular Culture, Gender, and Social Movements
History
MDST-HIST-CUST-ERST 2805H: Green Screen: Film and Environmental History
MDST-HIST-CUST 4090Y: American Visual Culture
Indigenous Studies
MDST-INDG 2030H: Indigenous Peoples and Media in Canada
MDST-INDG 3102Y: Images in Contemporary Media
Philosophy
MDST-PHIL-COIS 3370H: Cyberethics
Political Studies
MDST-POST-CUST 3465H: Politics and Film
MDST-POST-CUST 3475H: The Media of Politics
Sociology
MDST-SOCI-CAST 3450H: The Sociology of Communication and Media in Canada