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Lower-Level Courses
ANTHRO 217 002: Culture and Communication
Description: The study of communication; the relation between communication and its cultural context with emphasis on verbal and non-verbal communication, cross-cultural communication, and cultural differences in the use of oral, literate, and electronic media.
Instructor: Daisy Rosenblum
ARTH 101 001: Ways of Seeing – Introduction to Visual Studies
Description: Drawing on examples from across history and around the world, this course deals with the role of the visual in society, culture, and everyday experience.
Instructor: Julia Orell
ASIA 254 021: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Japanese Literature and Film
Description: The integral role that sex, gender, and sexuality play in literary and cinematic works from Japan. Literary works will be read in translation, movies will be subtitled.
Instructor: Nicholas Hall
CINE 200 002: Introduction to Canadian Cinema
Description: History and aesthetics of Canadian cinema. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST 200 or CINE 200. Preference may be given to Majors, Minors, or Honors students in Theatre or Film.
Instructor: William Brown.
CINE 210 001: Early Cinema
Description: Aesthetics, economics, history, and technological characteristics of international early film. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST 210 or CINE 210. Preference may be given to Majors, Minors, or Honors students in Theatre or Film.
Instructor: William Brown.
CINE 240 001: Media Industries
Description: Overview of today’s film and media industries, and of the concepts governing their practices. Credit will be granted for only one of FIST 240 or CINE 240. Restricted to students with second-year standing or above.
Instructor: Keren Zaiontz
CRWR 213 001: Introduction to Writing for the New Media
Description: An exploration of and practice in writing for new media, including podcasting, blogging, and writing for websites, games, and online environments. Manuscript submission is not required for admission.
Instructor: TBA.
ENGL 232 001: Approaches to Media Studies
Description: Approaches to the study of media: philosophical; technological; cultural; theoretical. For ENGL courses at the 200- or 300- level, prior completion of at least one 100- level ENGL course is recommended.
Instructor: Richard Anthony Cavell
ENGL 246 002: Literature and Film
Description: Approaches to the study of the relationships between literature and film. For ENGL courses at the 200- or 300- level, prior completion of at least one 100- level ENGL course is recommended.
Instructor: Tiffany Potter
ENGL 247 001: Television Studies
Description: Introduction to methods and practices of television studies, with emphasis on the use of literary approaches to televisual narrative. For ENGL courses at the 200- or 300- level, prior completion of at least one 100- level ENGL course is recommended.
Instructor: Adam Frank
FNIS 220 001: Representation and Indigenous Cultural Politics
Description: Representation, identity, and cultural politics through Indigenous literature, film, and the visual arts; the relationship between these sites of cultural production and the self-determination struggles of Indigenous peoples. Credit will be granted for only one of FNSP 200, FNIS 220, or FNSP 220.
Instructor: Candis Callison
GRSJ 225 101: Youth Activism and Social Justice
Description: A critical engagement with major issues, debates, and politics in feminist and social justice scholarship through an exploration of youth movements with a focus on activists, popular culture, digital activism, fan cultures, and literature by and for youth.
Instructor: Kim Snowden
GRSJ 226 101: Human Rights and Artistic Expression – Thinking Beyond the Legal
Description: How human rights are expressed in the Arts. Critical engagement with feminist, race and social justice scholarship, and activism.
Instructor: Lorenia Salgado-Leos
HIST 201 101: History Through Photographs
Description: The discipline of history through the study of photographs. Explores themes such as colonialism, orientalism, the mass media, representations of gender and sexuality, and protest through photographic evidence.
Instructor: Kelly McCormick
MDIA 100 001: Media Objects
Description: Multidisciplinary perspectives on contemporary media objects and their effects.
Instructor: TBA
VISA 110 001: Foundation Studio – Digital Media
Description: Foundation instruction in techniques and approaches to digital practice. The nature of digital technologies and their role in contemporary culture will be examined. This course is open to all UBC students, regardless of prior experience.
Instructor: Joshua Hite