Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.
FILM COURSES
FILM 1F94
Introduction to Film Studies
Critical and historical approaches to world cinema. Close analysis of selected films in relation to their cultural contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
#FILM 2F00
New Media Literacy
(also offered as COMM 2F00 and PCUL 2F00)
Practical training in a repertoire of skills and tools essential to functioning in new media environments, and critical analytical training in key issues and theories related to the contemporary information age.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 4.0 overall credits.
Note: this course is offered online.
FILM 2F90
Film History
History of cinema as a medium, industry and art form from its origins, including Hollywood cinema and major international movements.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 1F94.
FILM 2P10
Film Research Methods
Introduction to research and writing in the areas of film criticism, film history and film theory.
Lectures, lab, seminar, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 1F94.
Corequisite(s): FILM 2F90.
#FILM 2P20
Popular Culture Theory and Research Methods
(also offered as COMM 2P20 and PCUL 2P20)
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of various forms of popular culture. Critical and research skills specific to studies in popular culture.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, DCUL, MEST and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 1F94, CANA 1F91, COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
#FILM 2P21
Canadian Popular Culture
(also offered as COMM 2P21 and PCUL 2P21)
Survey of the media in Canada. Studies in the popular arts, referencing the ways that institutions (CBC, NFB) and selected artists identify and express a Canadian cultural imagination.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, BA General Studies majors and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
*FILM 2P54
Documentary Film
(also offered as COMM 2P54 and SOCI 2P54)
History, theory, aesthetics and cultural implications of documentary film and other visual media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 1F94, COMM 1F90, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 2P56
Canadian Cinema
(also offered as COMM 2P56 and PCUL 2P56)
Critical and historical study of Canadian cinema.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 1F94, COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
FILM 2P91
Early Film Theory
Major early film theories including realism, formalism, and surrealism. Application of the theories to selected films.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 1F94 or permission of the Department.
#FILM 2P93
Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 2P93, ENGL 2P93 and PCUL 2P93)
Analysis of storytelling across different media such as novels, film, television, the Internet and video games.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), MCMN and PCUL majors.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 1F94, COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in PCUL (COMM/ENGL) 2F92.
*FILM 2P94
Popular Cinema
(also offered as COMM 2P94 and PCUL 2P94)
Popular cinema as art and institution emphasizing film genres and cultural contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 1F94 or PCUL 1F92.
*FILM 3F28
Basic Production: Video
(also offered as COMM 3F28)
Introduction to the theory and practice of video techniques: critique of videos and production work.
Workshops, seminar, 3 hours per week; additional production time as required.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): two FILM credits.
Note: enrolment limited to 15 students. Materials fee required.
#FILM 3P03
Advanced Studies in Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 3P03, ENGL 3P03 and PCUL 3P03)
Case studies in the adaptation of popular texts across media.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), MCMN and PCUL majors.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2P93.
#FILM 3P18
Audience Studies
(also offered as COMM 3P18 and PCUL 3P18)
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the understanding of audiences for media and cultural products, including print, sound, film, broadcasting and digital media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 2P10, 2P20, COMM 2P17.
*FILM 3P20
Television Studies
(also offered as COMM 3P20 and PCUL 3P20)
Historical, theoretical and critical approaches to television.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, STAC majors and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90, 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 3P21
Canadian Television
(also offered as COMM 3P21 and PCUL 3P21)
Historical, theoretical and critical approaches to Canadian television.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, STAC majors and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 3P20 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 3P54
Issues in Documentary Film
(also offered as COMM 3P54 and SOCI 3P54)
Advanced studies in selected aspects of documentary film and other visual media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2P54.
*FILM 3P56
Issues in Canadian Cinema
(also offered as COMM 3P56)
Advanced studies in selected aspects of Canadian cinema.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2P56.
FILM 3P91
Contemporary Film Theory
Current film theories including semiotics, psychoanalysis and postmodernism. Application of the theories to selected films.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2P91.
FILM 3P93
Authorship in the Cinema
Issues of personal and collaborative creativity in film through the study of the style, themes and development of selected film makers.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 3P94
Film Genre
(also offered as COMM 3P94 and PCUL 3P94)
Genre theory and its application to popular film.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90, 2P20 and 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
FILM 3P95
National Cinema
Study of selected national cinemas emphasizing their relationship to national cultural traditions.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90 or permission of the instructor.
#FILM 3P96
Issues in Popular Culture
(also offered as COMM 3P96 and PCUL 3P96)
Specialized studies in popular culture and its role in specific social, historical or theoretical contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90 or FILM 2P20 and 2P21.
*FILM 3P97
Gender and Cinema to the 1960s
(also offered as COMM 3P97, PCUL 3P97 and WISE 3P97)
Representation of gender, sexuality, race and class, and implications of spectatorship and ideology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 2F90, FILM 2P20 and 2P21, WISE 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 3P98
Gender and Contemporary Cinema
(also offered as COMM 3P98, PCUL 3P98 and WISE 3P98)
Representation of gender, sexuality, race and class via ideology, feminism, queer theory, and spectatorship in film and video texts since the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): one of FILM 2F90, FILM 2P20 and 2P21, WISE 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 3Q94
Television Genres
(also offered as COMM 3Q94 and PCUL 3Q94)
Genre theory and its application to popular television.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90, FILM 2P20 and 2P21 or permission of the instructor.
FILM 3V50-3V59
Special Topics in Film Studies
Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 2F90 and 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
FILM 4F80
Directed Reading
Directed individual or group reading in an area of Film Studies.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 80 percent major average, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: students are responsible for arranging their course with a faculty member, in consultation with the Academic Adviser and must submit a written proposal before registration. The reading may not be on the topic of the student's FILM 4F99 thesis.
FILM 4F99
Honours Thesis
Thesis on a topic of mutual interest to the student and the instructor, with a critical, historical or contemporary focus.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 80 percent major average, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): FILM 4P30 and 4P31(may be taken concurrently).
Note: to register in the Honours thesis, the student must consult the Undergraduate Program Adviser about topics, department regulations and the selection of an adviser.
#FILM 4P03
Applied Studies in Popular Narrative
(also offered as COMM 4P03 and PCUL 4P03)
Practical and theoretical approaches to the adaptation of popular narratives.
Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): FILM 3P03.
#FILM 4P30
Theories of Mass Culture
(also offered as COMM 4P30 and PCUL 4P30)
Studies in cultural theory and its application to mass media texts, referencing the work of the Frankfurt School, French Structuralism and British Cultural Studies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, DCUL, MEST and PCUL minors. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 4P31
Theories of the Visible
(also offered as COMM 4P31 and PCUL 4P31)
Central 20th-century developments in the theories of visibility and their relevance to the field of media studies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
#FILM 4P34
Taste and Cultural Politics
(also offered as COMM 4P34 and PCUL 4P34)
Application of cultural theories to the analysis of taste, distinction, class, cultural standards and moral panics, transgression and trash culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
*FILM 4P61
Conventions of Screen Realism
(also offered as COMM 4P61 and PCUL 4P61)
How representation and perception of reality have evolved with technology and aesthetics, from the Lumières to reality television.
Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined), BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in FILM 4V61.
FILM 4V50-4V59
Special Topics in Film Studies
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
FILM 4V60-4V69
Issues in Film History
Specialized studies in Film History addressing issues such as aesthetics, ideological and theoretical concerns across a range of periods and cultures.
FILM 4V70-4V79
Issues in International Cinema
Specialized studies of the historical and social contexts influencing trends and developments in international cinema.
INTERNSHIP COURSES
FILM 4F00
Internship in Communication, Popular Culture or Film
Part-time placement related to communication, popular culture or film in a company, agency or not-for-profit organization. Students are responsible for arranging their own placements in consultation with the department Academic Adviser, Internships Officer and faculty supervisor.
Tutorial, regularly scheduled meetings, 160 hour placement.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: enrolment is limited. Students will be required to complete a major paper setting the placement experience within a theoretical context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in FILM 4F80, 4F99, 4P00, COMM 3F71, 4F00, 4F80, 4F99, 4P00, 4P60, PCUL 4F99, 4F00, 4P00 and 4P80.
FILM 4P00
Placement in Communication, Popular Culture or Film
Part-time placement related to communication, popular culture or film in a company, agency or not-for-profit organization. Students are responsible for arranging their own placements in consultation with the department Academic Adviser, Internships Officer and faculty supervisor.
Tutorial, regularly scheduled meetings, 80 hour placement.
Restriction: open to FILM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Note: enrolment is limited. Students will be required to complete a major paper setting the placement within a theoretical context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in FILM 4F00, 4F80, 4F99, COMM 3F71, 4F00, 4F80, 4F99, 4P60, PCUL 4F00, 4F99 and 4P80.
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