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Graduate Electives

Graduate elective courses open to all students at The Creative School for the current term can be found below.

  • This list is updated at the start of each term.
  • Courses are offered subject to faculty availability and are subject to change without notice.
  • Preference will be given to students enrolled in the program offering the course.

How to request enrollment

  1. Review available courses below and identify the course you are interested in.
  2. Reach out to your Supervisor/Advisor and Program Director to get permission to take the course for credit in your program.
  3. Complete the  (PDF file) Course Substitution form (opens in new window) , it must be signed by your Supervisor/Advisor* and Program Director.
  4. Complete the  (google form) Enrollment Request Form (external link)  and submit the signed Course Substitution form**.

*If you don't have a Supervisor/Advisor, your Program Director can sign on behalf of both. 

** Submit one form per course request.

 

Deadline to submit request: Winter 2024 - Jan 10

The Admin team will review your enrollment request, and confirm via email.

 

Communication & Culture courses require an additional step to enroll

(CC8960, CC8921, CC8828, CC8836, CC8838)

  1. Complete the Course Substitution form (same as above).
  2. Submit the Enrollment request form (same as above).
  3. Submit the  (google form) ComCult Request form (external link, opens in new window)   to request enrollment.

Course Descriptions

Unless shown below, course descriptions can be found in the YSGPS calendar.

For your convenience, the links to each graduate program calendar at The Creative School are listed below. 

 

Special Topic courses - Course Descriptions

CD8330 Audiencing Today

Everyday life today is shaped and saturated by mediated forms, processes, logics, and content.  We can no longer understand mediated experiences in terms of a relatively homogenous audience, passive exposure to a simple range of media content, or limited range of unambiguous media effects.  Instead, we need an approach to audiences and audiencing that encompasses key modes of engagement in the contemporary mediascape: watching, listening, consuming, using, playing, reading, creating, and acting politically.  CD8330 – Audiencing Today provides a structured survey of audiencing across the spectrum of modes of engagement, along with an introduction to key conceptual frameworks, theoretical models, and some analytical tools for audience research.
 

DG8010  Selected Topics in Digital Media: Game Design & Industry Trends

The learning objectives for this course aim to provide students with a customized understanding of the tools and features of an interactive 3D engine (Unreal, Unity, GameMaker, etc.), and to help them develop the skills and knowledge they need to create professional-quality games interactive experiences, and theoretical frameworks via research-creation methodologies. The course will focus on a variety of areas, such as character animation, level design, mechanics design, and visual effects, in order to accomplish these goals. Students will have opportunities to put what they've learned into practice via a variety of projects and activities designed to foster both technical mastery and imaginative flexibility.

 

DG8010  Selected Topics in Digital Media: UX/UI & AR/VR in practice

DG8010 UX/UI & AR/VR in Practice explores the intersection of UI / UX and immersive realities ( Mixed, Augmented and Virtual ). Students will learn UI / UX basics through a hands-on AR / VR final project. This course will cover the current understanding of UI / UX trends, UI / UX, AR / VR planning and creation tools, UI and UX in practice through an AR / VR experiential project.

 

DG8116    Special Topics: Zone Learning Project

DG 8116 allows you to get course credit towards your graduate degree and connect with a community of like-minded students from across the university. This new elective course from Zone Learning allows graduate students to launch and grow a project under the guidance of an instructor. The course also offers a very hands-on experience to gain deeper insights into the highly transferable skills and competencies needed to launch and grow projects and ventures.
Visit the course website here (opens in new window) 

 

MP8995   Special topics in Media Production: Embodied Digital Media

Few digital technologies make use of the connection between our bodies and minds to support creativity and knowledge production. This research and design centered course provides students with the unique opportunity to envision the shape of research-based education in digital and embodied media, while working in the Synaesthetic Media Lab (Synlab) on cutting edge projects in Tangible and Embodied Interaction for creativity, discovery and expression.

 

PC8106   Special Topics: Critical Health Communication

This course introduces students to a growing field of critical health communication that explores the  ideological processes underpinning the meanings of health, illness, and well-being. Drawing on Canadian  and international examples, the course nurtures students’ ability to critically analyze health practices,  messages, and artifacts, while paying close attention to the issues of power, ethics, and equity. Lecture  (asynchronous, 1hr) & Interactive tutorial (in-person, 2hr).  

Course Objectives & Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, undergraduate students will be able to:
• Articulate the key assumptions and purposes of major theories and models of health  communication
• Critically explore the role of communication in a wide range of health contexts • Critically analyze the production, circulation, and reception of dominant health discourses in the  media
• Learn anti-oppressive approaches to communication in health
Additionally, graduate students will be able to:
• Coordinate a collaborative group project and hone their management skills
• Analyze diverse stakeholder needs for and interests in health communication campaigns
• Employ research methodology to evaluate impacts of health communication campaigns.

 

 

Links to Graduate Programs Calendar

Program Contact Information

Communication & Culture (MA, PhD)

comcult@torontomu.ca

Digital Media MDM

digitalmedia@torontomu.ca

Documentary Media MFA

docmedia@torontomu.ca

Film + Photography Preservation
and Collections Management

gradppcm@torontomu.ca

Post-Professional Master of Interior Design

mid@torontomu.ca

Journalism MJ

mj@torontomu.ca

Media & Design Innovation Phd

mediadesignphd@torontomu.ca

Media Production MA

mediaprod@torontomu.ca

Professional Communication MPC

mpc@torontomu.ca

Scriptwriting & Story Design MFA

mfascriptwriting@torontomu.ca

Administration Team

Tonisha Boyd, Graduate Program Administrator

Tonisha Boyd

Graduate Program Administrator

Mauro Chiera

Mauro Chiera

Graduate Program Administrator

Emily Hall
Emily Hall

Graduate Program Administrator

Elaine Nie
Elaine Nie

Graduate Program Administrator

Daniel Garcia, Manager Graduate Programs Administration

Daniel Garcia

Manager, Graduate Programs Administration