Open Elective Offerings
Open Elective Offerings
Discover a wide selection of elective courses in The Creative School that are open to all students. This choose-your-own-adventure table lets you explore topics outside of your program of study.
Browse by each school to see what they are offering and check out some of the featured courses.
Feature course
Student teams drawn from a range of programs work on real-world problems presented by industry and community partners in a practice-based, knowledge-building learning environment. Teams address partners' needs through the use of innovative, flexible and creative approaches. With the support of experiential industry, community and academic mentorship, the students pursue disruptive outcomes, honing and vision-proofing their proposed solutions for future execution as a final product, white paper or prototype.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| CRI300 Digital Design Studio | CRI420 Book Publishing and Marketing |
| CRI460 Financial Management for Creatives | CRI 500 Project Management |
| CRI510 Art and Business of Gaming | CRI 520 Design Management |
| CRI530 Talent Management | CRI540 Marketing the Creative Industries |
| CRI590 Storying Indigenous People | CRI630 Advertising Theory and Practice |
| CRI670 Music and Brands | CRI680 Celebrity |
| CRI770 Trendwatching | CRI820 Global Licensing/Distribution Agreements |
| FCD540 Marketing for Creatives | FCD815 Design Solutions Supercourse I |
| FCD 816 Global Campus Studio I. | EID100 Digital Skills & Innovation |
| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
CRI300 Digital Design Studio |
CRI400 Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries |
CRI450 Appreciating Creativity in Practice |
CRI540 Marketing The Creative Industries |
CRI560 Topics in Creative Industries |
CRI620 Concert & Festival Management |
CRI670 Music and Brands |
CRI850 Directed Reading Course |
CRI860 The Big Night |
FCD540 Marketing for Creatives |
EID100 Digital Skills and Innovation |
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Feature course
An introduction to experience design and event design through the development and production of a large-scale, multi-stakeholder fashion and cultural event, Mass Exodus.
Learn skills in event production and management, service design, space design, content creation, technical direction, and budgeting to facilitate successful events in a variety of creative fields
Feature course
This course introduces students to issues of accessibility affecting graphic communication pieces. Accessibility is increasingly important in the design, production and distribution of print and non-printed graphic media. By improving accessibility, overall design and readability are often enhanced.
| SPRING/SUMMER 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Visit GCM Summer Intensives for enrolment and schedule info. | |
GCM 740 Accessibility for Graphic Communications |
GCM 746 Sustainability in Print and Packaging |
Feature course
This course examines issues of gender, race and sexuality in contemporary art practices after 1960. It explores the cultural construction of difference through art practice and theory, looking closely at work that relates to feminism, queer theory and critical race theory. With some historical context, the course will explore recent work in both art and activist contexts.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
IDE 314 Digital Fabrication |
IDE 402 Design in the Metaverse |
| IDE 414 Co-curricular Project | IDF 250 Contemporary Art and Design |
| IDF 400 Introduction to World Textile History | IDN 101 Design Communications I |
| IDN 102 Fabrication I | IDN 103 Materiality |
| IDN 305 History of Modern Interior Design | IRP 801 Professional Practice |
Feature course
This course will explore how sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity have been portrayed in the media, news and entertainment, both historically as well as in contemporary culture. The reasons and the implications for changes in the depiction of the LGBT community will also be explored. Do the media have the power to change public perception or are the changes in news coverage and the entertainment fields merely a reflection of changing cultural and public attitudes? Do these ever conflict, and if so, why?
Feature course
This course studies the nature and function of communication by, for, and about Indigenous peoples in both historical and contemporary settings. Students will take an expansive view of both text and textual analysis as they explore material culture (rock art, birchbark scrolls, wampum belts), historical documents and narratives (oral histories), policies and legal documents (treaties, statutes), and popular media representations. Indigenous theory will be the guiding framework for the course, but students will also be exposed to a range of other theoretical perspectives.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
CMN231 Communicating with Comics |
CMN279 Introduction to Professional Communication |
CMN288 Communication and Social Media |
CMN 305 Strategic Public Relations In ProCom |
| CMN 306 Risk and Crisis Communication | CMN 314 Professional Presentations |
| CMN 315 Issues in Organizational Communication | CMN 317 Information, Technology, and Control |
| CMN406 Storytelling in an Indigenous Context | |
| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
CMN100 Professional Health Communication |
CMN231 Communicating with Comics |
CMN279 Introduction to Professional Communication |
CMN288 Communication and Social Media |
CMN304 Career Advancement Communication |
CMN 305 Strategic Public Relations In ProCom |
| CMN 313 Organizational Report Writing | CMN 314 Professional Presentations |
CMN 462 Critical Health Communication |
CMN600 Science, Communication and Society |
| FCD210 Text, Image and Sound | |
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| BPM201 Digital Music Production I | BPM301 Performance Production I |
| BPM401 Capstone Project | FCD 222 Coding for Creatives |
| FCD912 Researching Media Audiences | FCD920 Visual Storytelling: Video Production |
| RTA103 Intro to Digital Media | RTA111 Introduction to New Media |
| RTA231 Sport Marketing and Promotion | RTA315 Business of Creative Media |
| RTA316 Concepts in Narrative | RTA320 Interactive Storytelling |
| RTA331 Advanced Sports Marketing | RTA406 Chinese Instrumental Music |
| RTA431 Sport Media Practicum | RTA433 Issues in Sports |
| RTA701 Thesis: Production Project | RTA703 Thesis: Media Writing Proj. I |
| RTA807 Interactive Design Practice | RTA822 Interfaces for Live Performanc |
| RTA82A New Media Thesis Project-A | RTA855 The Athlete's Perspective |
| RTA865 Exploring Virtual Environments | RTA867 Game Engines |
| RTA927 Business of Music I | RTA 939 Indigenous Media |
RTA941 Dramatic Writing |
RTA944 Writing for Animation |
RTA960 Int'l Media Co-production |
RTA970 Lighting Grip and Effects Spec |
RTA972 - Sound Synthesis |
RTA993 Sport Graphics |
| ZON100 Zone Learning Project I | |
| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
| BPM102 Modern Music Fundamentals II | BPM302 Performance Production II |
| BPM402 Masterclass | FCD222 Coding for Creatives |
FCD918 Media Ethics |
RTA105 Sport Media Theory and Practice |
| RTA106 Intro to Video Sport Prod. | RTA120 Video Games and Culture |
| RTA180 Music and Film | RTA183 Rhythm, Beat and Groove |
| RTA201 Video Art Production | RTA210 Media History |
| RTA212 Media Writing | RTA220 New Media Art History |
RTA222 Intro to Computational Arts |
RTA317 Media Participatory Audiences |
RTA430 Sport Media Capstone |
RTA440 Sport Media Internship |
| RTA501 Studio Practice | RTA844 Sport in Film |
| ZON100 Zone Learning Project I | |
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| THA340 -Improvisation | THF101 - Elements of Production I |
| THF200 - Timelines of Performance History I | THF402 - Text Examination: Dramaturgy and Direction |
| THF403 - Landmarks in Canadian Theatre | THF500 - Performing Arts in the Media |
| THG32A -Staging the Theatrical Production-A | THP500 - Conceiving the Production |