Engage in the creative process while you learn theories and techniques from professors who are practicing artists, musicians, actors, and filmmakers. Through small and intensive workshops in visual art, photography, video, and music, this specialization gives you an opportunity to build a resume-enhancing artist portfolio while you explore contemporary and experimental modes of self-expression.
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 1510H: Introduction to the Integrated Arts
- CUST-INDG 1570HL: The Origins of Theatre: Performance in Indigenous and Cultural Studies
- CUST-ERST 2114H: Workshop: Ecological Art
- CUST-MDST 2184H: Workshop in Experimental Animation
- CUST-MDST 2186H: Workshop: Photography
- CUST 2511H: Workshop: Drawing
- CUST 2516H: Introduction to Visual Studies
- CUST 2526H: Workshop: Narrative and Performance
- CUST 2545H: Music and Society
- CUST 2547H: Pop After Rock
- CUST 2551H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Ideology, Language
- CUST 2552H: Popular Culture and Modern Thought: Gender, Globalization, and the Virtual
- CUST 2572H: Workshop: Performance and Protest
- CUST-MDST 2582H: Introduction to Film II: Film Movements, Film History
- CUST-HIST-ERST-MDST 2805H: Green Screen: Film and Environmental History
- CUST 3087Y: Community-Based Research Project
- CUST 3111Y: Workshop: Visual Arts Studio
- CUST 3112H: Workshop: Fashion and Power
- CUST 3176H: Workshop: Making Theatre
- CUST 3177H: Workshop: Making the Play
- CUST-MDST 3184H: Workshop: Documentary Film
- CUST-MDST 3186H: Workshop: Experimental Film
- CUST 3515H: Modernism and the Avant-Garde
- CUST 3542H: Music Studies: The Black Atlantic I
- CUST 3544H: Music Studies: The Black Atlantic 2
- CUST-MDST 3545H: Music and Media—An Archaeology
- CUST 3547H: Music and Politics
- CUST-MDST 3549H: Producing Punk
- CUST 3556H: Workshop: Place Matters
- CUST 3572H: Workshop: Storytelling and Theatre
- CUST 3573H: Workshop: Theatre of the Absurd
- CUST-MDST 3580H: Text and Image
- CUST-MDST 3581H: World Cinema I: Experiment and Innovation
- CUST-MDST 3582H: World Cinema II: Images of Globalization
- CUST 3900Y/3901H/3092H: Reading Course
- CUST 4010Y/4020D: Honours Thesis
- CUST-MDST 4041Y/4541H: Internship in Media and Cultural Studies
- CUST 4111H: Workshop: Advanced Research-Creation
- CUST 4142H: Workshop: Sound Art
- CUST 4515H: Art Culture Theory
- CUST-POST-MDST 4538H: Media Ecologies
- CUST 4547H: Music and Politics
- CUST 4556H: Workshop: Place Matters
- CUST 4570H: Advanced Studies in Theatre and the Performing Arts
- CUST-MDST 4580H: Text and Image
- CUST-MDST 4586H: Workshop: Cinema in the Digital Age
- CUST 4900Y/4901H/4902H: Reading Course
Learn from professors who are actively practicing artists, musicians, actors, and directors to examine how the even the most recent moments in history are shaping art that is being produced right now.