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DIGITAL & MEDIA STUDIES (3.0 credits)

The Digital and Media Studies Minor offers an exciting opportunity for students to improve their critical writing and analytical skills by taking additional courses beyond those usually available to students in their studio based BFA and BDes Programs. The Digital and Media Studies Minor focuses on contemporary history and theory and enables students to integrate new technologies and digital practices into their work as a natural progression of their learning. This Minor provides students with the critical background and breadth necessary to broaden their understanding of the changing forms of digital media technology as they prepare for graduate studies either in studio or academic programs.

I. Required: Choose one of the following core courses:

SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies (cross-listed with VISM 2B40/VISC 2B40)

VISM 2B08 Film Studies: An Introduction (formerly VISC 2B08)

VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art (formerly VISC 2B09)

Plus take 5 courses from the list below, including 3 courses at the 300/400 level:

II. Elective Courses

ENGL 3B04 Science and Technology in Literature

HUMN 3B01 Reading Popular Culture

HUMN 3B08 Ethics, Advertising and Design

SOSC 2B02 Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape: Introduction to Communication Studies (cross-listed with VISM 2B40/VISC 2B40)

SOSC 2B20 Web Theory (cross-listed with VISM 2B20/VISC 2B20, added June 2010)

VISM 2B08 Film Studies: An Introduction (formerly VISC 2B08)

VISM 2B09 History of New Media Art (formerly VISC 2B09)

VISA 2B13 History of Photography (formerly VISC 2B13)

VISM 2B15 Introduction to Games Studies (added June 2011)

VISM 3B01 Critical Play (added June 2011)

VISM 3B18 Television Criticism (formerly VISC 3B18)

VISM 3B23 Technology and Digital Culture (formerly VISC 3B23)

VISM 3B33 Canadian Cinema (formerly VISC 3B33)

VISM 3B34 Japanese Cinema (formerly VISC 3B34)

VISM 3B39 Latin American Cinema (formerly VISC 3B39)

VISA 3B43 Into the 21st Century: Photographic Practices, Theory and Criticism (revised title 2010/11, formerly VISC 3B43)

VISM 4B03 Contemporary Documentary Media (formerly VISC 4B03)

VISM 4B04 Re-presenting Women: Feminist Film and Video (formerly VISC 4B04)

VISM 4B05 Future Cinema and Digital Narratives (formerly VISC 4B05)

VISM 4B06 Global Mesh: Internet, Networks, Globalization and Digital Resistance (formerly VISC 4B06)

VISM 4B07 Images and Practices of Technology (formerly VISC 4B07)

VISM 4B24 The Body and the Machine: Interrogating the Posthuman in Art & Design (added June 2011)

Special Topics upon approval by Associate Deans in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Interdisciplinary Studies.

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