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Courses being offered in the current academic year can be found here. Under “Search by….” click on “Subject” and look for FILM courses (FA/GS). Graduate courses are numbered in the 5000, 6000, and 7000 series.

Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Courses

GS Film 5123 3.0

Screenwriting and the History of Ideas

GS Film 5230 3.0

Contemporary Film Theory

GS Film 5231 3.0

Canadian Cinema: Production, Distribution, Exhibition & Marketing

GS Film 5232 3.0

Contemporary Documentary

GS Film 5235 3.0

Issues of Film Authorship; The Case of David Cronenberg

GS Film 5240 3.0

City as Cinema: Film and City Space

GS Film 5241 3.0

The Architecture of Cinema: Theories of Urban Space, Architecture and Film

GS Film 5245 3.0

Future Cinema

GS Film 5246 3.0

Future Cinema II: Applied Theory

GS Film 5250 3.0

First Nations in Film and Television

GS Film 5255 3.0

Canadian Documentary

GS Film 5310 3.0

Selected Topics in Canadian Cinema

GS Film 5320 3.0

Selected Topics in History and Criticism

GS Film 5320B 3.0

Selected Topics in History & Criticism: Narratology and Luis Buñuel

GS Film 5320A 3.0

World Cinema Around the Millennium

GS Film 5320C 3.0

History & Criticism: Cinema Verite

GS Film 5320D 3.0

History & Criticism: Cinema Verite in Canada

GS Film 5320G 3.0

Special Topics: Classical Hollywood

GS Film 5320H 3.0

Race & Gender in Digital Technology

GS Film 5320J 3.0

Marxism, Culture and Film

GS Film 5320K 3.0

Selected Topics: Film & Sexual Deviancy in Film

GS Film 5320L 3.0

Discourses of Race/Racist Discourses

GS Film 5320M 3.0

Film in Canada

GS Film 5320P 3.0

Documentary Narration

GS Film 5320Q 3.0

Early Cinema to 1915

GS Film 5400 0.0

Graduate Seminar      

GS Film 5700 3.0

Student Initiated Collaborative Inquiry

GS Film 5800 / 5800A 3.0

Directed Reading    

GS Film 5900 3.0

Imaging the Arts: Interdisciplinary Collaboration

GS Film 7000 3.0

Key Concepts in Cinema and Media Studies

Production Graduate Courses

GS FILM 5010 3.0

Production

GS FILM 5020 3.0

Selected Topics In Production

GS FILM 5020B 3.0

Activist Video-Making

GS FILM 5021 3.0

Process Cinema

GS FILM 5030A 3.0

Cinematography

GS FILM 5031 3.0

Technical Workshop/Advanced Production

GS FILM 5040 3.0

Documentaries Without Borders

GS FILM 5041 3.0

Technical Workshop/Advanced Post-Prod.

GS FILM 5050 3.0

Senior Documentary Workshop

GS FILM 5060 3.0

Editing

GS FILM 5070 3.0

Hybrid Fiction

GS FILM 5080 3.0

Directing Short New Narratives

GS FILM 5400 3.0

Graduate Seminar

GS FILM 5700 3.0

Student Initiated Collaborative Inquiry

GS FILM 5800 / 5800A 3.0

Directed Reading

GS FILM 5900 3.0

Imaging the Arts: Interdisciplinary Collaboration

SCREENWRITING Graduate Courses

GS FILM 5110 3.0

Screenwriting

GS FILM 5112 3.0

Graduate Acting for Writers

GS FILM 5120 3.0

Feature Screenwriting II

GS FILM 5120 6.00

Feature Screenwriting II

GS FILM 5122 6.00

Writing for Television

GS FILM 5123 3.0

Screenwriting and the History of Ideas

GS FILM 5125 3.0

Scene Writing Workshop

GS FILM 5126 6.00

Story Editing

GS FILM 5127 3.0

Readings in the History of Screenwriting

GS FILM 5128 3.0

Screenwriters Cinema I

GS FILM 5129 3.0

Screenwriters’ Cinema II

GS FILM 5130A 3.0

Selected Topics in Screenwriting

GS FILM 5130A 6.00

Selected Topics in Screenwriting

GS FILM 5320E 3.0

Selected Topics: Script Editing

GS FILM 5400 3.0

Graduate Seminar

GS FILM 5700 3.0

Student Initiated Collaborative Inquiry

GS FILM 5800 / 5800A 3.0

Directed Reading

GS FILM 5900 3.0

Imaging the Arts: Interdisciplinary Collaboration

GS Film 5700 3.0 - Student Initiated Collaborative Inquiry

Students may design, in collaboration with other students in the Cinema and Media Studies, Production, orScreenwriting programs, a particular course of study with a faculty member(s) provided it is not available in the current curriculum and does not overlap significantly with a course previously taken. All Student Initiated Collaborative Inquiry courses must be approved by the applicable Graduate Program Director(s).

GS Film 5800 / 5800A 3.0 - Directed Reading

Students may design an individual course of study with a faculty member provided it is not available in the current curriculum and does not overlap significantly with a course previously taken. Students are normally allowed two half reading courses during their Master’s tenure in the Program.All Directed Reading courses must be approved by the Cinema and Media Studies Graduate Program Director.