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DIGITAL & MEDIA STUDIES

The Postgraduate Certificate in Digital and Media Studies offers an exciting opportunity for students to improve their critical writing and analytical skills. The Digital and Media Studies postgraduate certificate 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 postgraduate certificate 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.

COURSE           COURSE NAME                                                        CREDIT
CODE 

Choose one: 0.5
VISC 2B08     Film Studies: An Introduction
VISC 2B09     History of New Media Art
VISC 2B40     Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape:
(SOSC 2B02)  Introduction to Communication Studies

Choose five: (including 3 third or fourth-year courses) 2.5
ENGL 3B04     Science and Technology in Literature
HUMN 3B01    Reading Popular Culture
HUMN 3B08    Ethics, Advertising and Design
VISC 2B08     Film Studies: An Introduction
VISC 2B09     History of New Media Art
VISC 2B13     History of Photography
VISC 2B20     Web Theory (added June 2010)
(SOSC 2B20
VISC 2B40     Media, Messages and the Cultural Landscape:
(SOSC 2B02) Introduction to Communication Studies 

VISC 3B18    Television Criticism
VISC 3B23    Technology and Digital Culture
VISC 3B33    Canadian Cinema
VISC 3B34    Japanese Cinema
VISC 3B39    Latin American Cinema
VISC 3B43    Into the 21st Century: Photographic Practices,  
                   Theory and Criticism

VISC 4B03    Contemporary Documentary Media
VISC 4B04    Re-presenting Women: Feminist Film and Video
VISC 4B05    Future Cinema and Digital Narratives
VISC 4B06    Global Mesh: Internet, Networks, Globalization 
                    and Digital Resistance

VISC 4B07    Images and Practices of Technology
Special Topics Upon approval by Associate Deans in the
                     Faculty of Liberal Studies

TOTAL 3.0

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