Media Studies
Faculty List
G. Leonard, M.A., Ph.D. (Florida), Professor
M. Mahtani, B.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (London), Associate Professor
R. Bai, B.A., M.A. (Beijing Foreign Studies), Ph.D. (Illinois), Assistant Professor
A. Maurice, M.A., Ph.D. (Cornell), Assistant Professor
K.A. McLeod, M.A. (McMaster), Ph.D. (McGill), Assistant Professor
L. Chan, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Senior Lecturer
S.L. Helwig, B.A. (Guelph), M.A. (Toronto), Senior Lecturer
D. Hlynsky, B.F.A. (Ohio State), Senior Lecturer
K. McCrindle, M.A., Ph.D. (Toronto), Senior Lecturer
M. Petit, M.A., Ph.D. (Colorado), Lecturer
E. Webster, B.A., M.A. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve), Lecturer
MAJOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA STUDIES (ARTS)
Program Director: M. Petit Email: mepetit@utsc.utoronto.ca
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: mds-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
The Major Program in Media Studies is under review and new enrolment in it has been suspended indefinitely. Students who first enrolled at UTSC prior to the 2010 Summer Session should refer to the 2009/2010 UTSC Calendar. Students who had intended to enrol in the program in 2010/2011 might want to consider applying to the Joint Programs in Journalism or New Media.
The Media Studies Study Guide is available at: www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~humdiv/prg_ms.html
MINOR PROGRAM IN MEDIA STUDIES (ARTS)
Undergraduate Advisor: 416-287-7184 Email: mds-undergrad-advisor@utsc.utoronto.ca
Program Requirements
Students must complete 4.0 full credits from the courses below as follows:
1.0 credit from the following:
MDSA01H3 Introduction to Media Studies
MDSA02H3 From Print to Digital: History of Media and Technology
1.0 credit from the following:
MDSB05H3 Media and Globalization
MDSB61H3 Critical Approaches to Digital Media
0.5 credit from the following:
MDSB03H3 Advertising and Consumer Culture
MDSB62H3 Visual Culture
VPAB05H3 Introduction to Contemporary Cultural Theory
VPHB68H3 Art and the Everyday: Mass Culture and the Visual Arts
0.5 credit from the following:
MDSC01H3 Theories and Methods in Media Studies
MDSC63H3 Legal and Ethical Issues in Media Studies
1.0 credit from the following:
Any C-or D-level MDS course not listed above
IDSC08H3 Media and Development
GASC41H3 Media and Popular Culture in East and Southeast Asia
GASC40H3 Chinese Media and Politics
MDSA01H3 Introduction to Media Studies
Introduces students to key terms and concepts in media studies as well as an overview of theoretical and critical understandings of media. Through a study of classic and cutting-edge media studies scholarship, students develop an understanding of the political, economic, social and cultural contexts in which mediated images and texts are produced, distributed and consumed.
Exclusion: (NMEA20H3)
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSA02H3 From Print to Digital: History of Media and Technology
This course surveys the history of media and communication technologies, from the development of writing through to the printing press, newspaper, telegraph, radio, film, television and internet. Students examine the complex interplay among changing media technologies and concomitant cultural, political and social changes, from the rise of a public sphere to the development of highly-mediated forms of self identity.
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSB02H3 Language and Media
A study of the relationship between language and media. The course examines language as a social phenomenon, in particular the ways in which media represent language-related issues and how media's use of language affects people's notions of what acceptable language use is and ought to be.
Prerequisite: [[MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] & MDSA02H3] or [[(MDSA21H3) or JOUA01H3] & [(MDSA22H3) or JOUA02H3]]
Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
MDSB03H3 Advertising and Consumer Culture
This course is an introduction to the study of advertising as social communication. The key objective of the course is to provide a historical perspective on advertising's role in the emergence and perpetuation of 'consumer culture'. The course will examine strategies historically employed to promote the circulation of goods as well as the impact of advertising on the creation of new habits and expectations in everyday life.
Prerequisite: MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSB05H3 Media and Globalization
This course introduces students to the variety of ways cultural and social theorists have addressed notions of "globalization" and the media; and to focus our eyes and research concerns on media systems and practices in the non-western world: Asian, Latin American, and Arabic countries.
Same as GASB05H3.
Exclusion: (HUMB74H3), GASB05H3
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSB25H3 Media Ownership and Journalism
This course examines how the political economy of news organizations shapes the process of news gathering, editing and publishing. It critically examines the implications of hyper-commercialization of media for journalism, and assesses the future of the newspaper industry.
Prerequisite: [MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] or [[(MDSA21H3) or JOUA01H3] & [(MDSA22H3) or JOUA02H3]
Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
MDSB61H3 Critical Approaches to Digital Media
This course introduces students to the key terms and concepts in digital media studies as well as approaches to digital media criticism. Students examine the myriad ways that digital media contribute to an ongoing reformulation of the dynamics of contemporary society, including changing concepts of community, communication, identity, privacy, property, and the political.
Prerequisite: Any 4.0 credits
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSB62H3 Visual Culture
Visual Culture studies the construction of the visual in art, media, technology and everyday life. Students learn the tools of visual analysis; investigate how visual depictions such as YouTube and advertising structure and convey ideologies; and study the institutional, economic, political, social and market factors in the making of contemporary visual culture.
Prerequisite: MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)
Exclusion: (NMEB20H3)
Enrolment Limits: 50
Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language
MDSC01H3 Theories and Methods in Media Studies
This is an advanced seminar on theories and methodologies applied to the study of media. Topics vary.
Prerequisite: Any 5.0 credits including [MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] & MDSA02H3
Enrolment Limits: 30
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural Studies
MDSC02H3 Topics in Media, Identities and Politics
This course explores the centrality of mass media such as television, film, the Internet and mobile media in the formation of multiple identities in the context of globalization, and the role of media as focal points for various cultural and political contestations.
Prerequisite: Any 5.0 credits including [MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] or [[(MDSA21H3) or JOUA01H3] & [(MDSA22H3) or JOUA02H3]
Enrolment Limits: 35
Breadth Requirement: Social & Behavioural Sciences
MDSC63H3 Legal and Ethical Issues in Media Studies
Introduces students to legal and ethical issues in media, including journalism, advertising, and entertainment. Students learn legal principles and ethical theory and apply them to media industries and practices. Topics include issues of access, privacy, intellectual property and copyright, libel and slander, violence, censorship, and media democratization.
Prerequisite: Any 5.0 credits including [MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] or (MDSB04H3)
Enrolment Limits: 35
Breadth Requirement: History, Philosophy & Cultural
MDSC64H3 Old Media, New: Film and New Technology
From the first depiction of a cyborg in Metropolis (1927) to the Web-based surveillance devices of Minority Report (2002), film is central to organizing cultural discourse around new media and technology. This course examines how the popularization of both real and imagined
technologies in various films contributes to cultural attitudes that attend the introduction and social diffusion of new technologies.
Prerequisite: Any 5.0 credits including MDSA02H3
Enrolment Limits: 35
Breadth Requirement: Arts, Literature & Language Studies
MDSD01H3 Senior Seminar: Topics in Media and Arts
This is a senior seminar that focuses on the connections among media and the arts. Students explore how artists use the potentials offered by various media forms, including digital media, to create new ways of expression. Topics vary.
Prerequisite: Any 11 credits including [[MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] & MDSA02H3] or [[(MDSA21H3) or JOUA01H3] & [(MDSA22H3) or JOUA02H3]]
Enrolment Limits: 15
MDSD02H3 Senior Seminar: Topics in Media and Society
This is a senior seminar that focuses on media and society. It explores the social and political implications of media, including digital media, and how social forces shape their development. Topics vary.
Prerequisite: Any 11 credits including [[MDSA01H3 or (NMEA20H3)] & MDSA02H3] or [[(MDSA21H) or JOUA01H3] & [(MDSA22H3) or JOUA02H3]]
Enrolment Limits: 15
MUSIC AND CULTURE
See the Visual and Performing Arts section of this Calendar