Courses by Year
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.
First Year
MDST-COIS 1010H: The Digital World (Sc) (required)
MDST-CUST 1535H: Introduction to Media Studies (required)
Second Year
MDST-INDG 2030H: Indigenous Peoples and Media in Canada
MDST-CUST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society (required)
MDST-CUST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
MDST-WMST-CUST 2210H: Gender, Race, and Popular Culture
MDST-CUST 2236H: New Media Literacy
MDST-WMST 2410H: The Revolution Will Be Recorded: Popular Culture, Gender, and Social Movements
MDST-CUST 2581H: Introduction to Film I: What Is Cinema?
MDST-CUST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
MDST-CAST-WMST 2600Y/2601H: Documenting Canada
MDST-COIS 2800H: Digital Culture
MDST-HIST-CUST-ERST 2805H: Green Screen: Film and Environmental History
MDST-COIS 2830H: Multimedia and Design (Sc)
Third Year
MDST-INDG 3102Y: Images in Contemporary Media
MDST-CAST-CUST 3031H: TV Guide: The Canadian Media Industry
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-ADMN 3150H: Advertising
MDST-CUST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
MDST-CUST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
MDST-ENGL 3203H: Theatre and Journalism During the Restoration and Eighteenth Century
MDST-ENGL 3209H: The First Media Revolution
MDST-PHIL-COIS 3370H: Cyberethics
MDST-SOCI-CAST 3450H: The Sociology of Communication and Media in Canada
MDST-POST-CUST 3465H: Politics and Film
MDST-POST-CUST 3475H: The Media of Politics
MDST-CUST 3531H: Mass Media and War
MDST-CUST-IDST 3532H: 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-COIS 3560H: Human-Computer Interaction (Sc)
MDST-CUST 3580H/4580H: Text and Image
MDST-CUST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiment and Innovation
MDST-CUST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
MDST-ENGL 3607H: Producing Punk
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-COIS 3820H: History and Impact of Computing
Fourth Year
MDST-CUST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
MDST-HIST-CUST 4090Y: American Visual Culture
MDST-CUST 4136H: Workshop: Digital Media Lab
MDST-ADMN 4160H: Branding
MDST-CUST 4523H: Shapeshifters: Narrative Adaptations Across Media
MDST-CUST 4535H: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
MDST-CUST-POST 4538H: Media Ecologies
MDST-CUST 4586H: Cinema in the Digital Age
MDST-ANTH 4820H: Anthropology of Technology