Engage with complex and contemporary themes in social and cultural theory.
In this interdisciplinary specialization, you’ll be exposed to a wide range of cultural frameworks – everything from gender, sexuality, and the human body, to globalization, technology, and the law.
Explore new depths of knowledge within this rich academic department, and set yourself on a solid path for career success.
Courses
Students who have fulfilled the requirements for a single- or joint-major degree in Cultural Studies may graduate with a Specialization if they have successfully completed 4.0 CUST credits in the chosen Specialization category. The same course may not simultaneously count toward two or more Specializations.
- CUST 1500H: Introduction to the Study of Modern Culture
- CUST 2035Y/2535H: Media and Society
- CUST 2516H: Introduction to Visual Studies
- CUST 2545H: Music and Society
- CUST 2550H: Keywords: A Toolkit for Cultural Studies
- CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
- CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
- CUST 2560H: The Making of the Modern Body
- CUST 2572H: Workshop: Performance and Protest
- CUST-HIST-ERST-MDST 2805H: Green Screen: Film and Environmental History
- CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
- CUST 3112H: Workshop: Fashion and Power
- CUST-GESO 3250H: Queer Feminisms
- CUST 3529H: Utopia (Future Fiction)
- CUST-MDST 3531H: War and Media
- CUST-GDST-MDST 3532H: Issues in Global Media
- CUST 3550H: Studies in Cultural Theory
- CUST 3556H: Workshop: Place Matters
- CUST-POST 3571H: Arts and Culture Enacting Social and Political Change
- CUST-MDST 3580H: Text and Image
- CUST-ERST 3590H: Climate Change and Culture
- CUST 3900Y/3901H/3092H: Reading Course
- CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
- CUST-MDST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
- CUST-GESO 4250H: Queer Feminisms
- CUST 4515H: Art Culture Theory
- CUST 4529H: Advanced Studies in Science Fiction
- CUST-MDST 4535H: Contemporary Topics in Media Studies
- CUST-POST-MDST 4538H: Media Ecologies
- CUST 4550H: Advanced Studies in Cultural Theory
- CUST 4556H: Workshop: Place Matters
- CUST-MDST 4580H: Text and Image
- CUST-MDST 4586H: Workshop: Cinema in the Digital Age
- CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course
Examine complex and contemporary social and cultural theory themes, broaden your horizons, and set yourself on a path to graduate studies and career success.