TIMETABLE
Fall-Winter 2015-16
As of 9 July 2015
Please note that changes may be made to the timetable at any time during the year.
Updated versions will be emailed to students; as well the timetable will be posted on the program web site:
http://cmct.gradstudies.yorku.ca/
Missing information will be provided as soon as possible.
All course scheduling is tentative. Courses are sometimes
changed at the last moment for reasons beyond our control.
Building/classroom locations:
YORK UNIVERSITY
Fall
Courses held at Ryerson start: Tues, 8 September 2015
Courses held at York start: Thurs, 10 September 2015.
Winter
Courses held at Ryerson start: Friday, 15 January 2016
Courses held at York start: Monday, 4 January 2016
Course descriptions: are on York and Ryerson Com Cult websites
for regular courses.
Selected Topics courses: Descriptions are at the end of the
timetable.
COURSE NUMBERS vs. CATALOG NUMBERS – Ryerson course
numbers are CC8XXX or CC9XXX. York course numbers are CMCT
XXXX. However to enroll in courses at York you must use the
catalog number - six digit (or letter/number) combinations which are
available on the online lecture schedule, as are course descriptions:
https://w2prod.sis.yorku.ca/Apps/WebObjects/cdm
LIMITED ENROLLMENT: ENROLLMENT IN A COURSE IN ANY GIVEN
TERM IS NOT GUARANTEED AS ALL COURSES HAVE LIMITS. ENROLLMENT
REQUESTS OVER THE LIMIT MUST BE APPROVED BY THE PROGRAM.
ENROLLMENT IN CROSS-LISTED COURSES IS SHARED WITH OTHER
PROGRAMS, BUT DON’T LET THIS STOP YOU FROM REQUESTING THE
COURSE. ADDITIONAL SPACES MAY BE NEGOTIATED BY THE PROGRAM.
http://www.yorku.ca/web/futurestudents/map/keele_map.html
RYERSON UNIVERSITY
http://www.ryerson.ca/maps/
Courses listed in grey:
These are courses on which Com Cult is cross-listed but hosted by
another York graduate program. We are awaiting confirmation that they
will be definitely offered. We hope to know by early July. If you are
interested in any of these courses, please let us know and we’ll start a
waiting list.
IMPORTANT NOTICES:
ALL INCOMING DOCTORAL STUDENTS MUST TAKE THE PERSPECTIVES COURSE IN FALL AND ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN WINTER.
ALL INCOMING MASTERS STUDENTS MUST TAKE THE INTERDISCIPLINARY SEMINAR IN THE FALL, AND MA LEVEL RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES IN
WINTER.
YK
Crs #
RY Crs
#
Title
CMCT
CC
FALL TERM 2015
6004 3.0 A
8906
Sect 1
6004 3.0 B
Crs.
Type
Instructor
Univ/
Bldg/
Rm
Day/Time
Communication and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approach
Req.
MA
John McCullough
johnmccu@yorku.ca
YK
R S102
Wed
2:30-5:30
8906
Sect 2
Communication and Culture: Interdisciplinary Approach
Req.
MA
Isabella Pruska-Oldenhof
i2pruska@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Tues
3:00-6:00
6005 3.0
8905
Research Specialization and Practice
(Second Year Students ONLY)
Req.
MA
Mark Hayward
mhayward@yorku.ca
YK
R S803
Wed
2:30-5:30
7000 3.0
9904
Perspectives in Communication & Culture
Compulsory course for all doctoral candidates.
Req.
PhD
Greg Elmer
gelmer@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Thurs
12:00-3:00
Media & Culture Electives (Fall)
6101 3.0
8922
Issues in Cultural Studies
Topic: Making DIY
Elec.
MC
Art Blake
art.blake@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Fri
12:00-3:00
6110 3.0
8921
Visual Culture
Elec.
MC
Bruce Elder
bedler@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Wed
12:00-3:00
6113 3.0
8934
Contemporary Topics in Social Theory
Elec.
MC
Sylvia Bawa
bawa@yorku.ca
YK
R S803
Mon
2:30-5:30
8928
Culture and the Environment
Elec.
MC
TBD
YK
TBD
TBD
8836
Selected Topics in Media and Culture
Elec.
Susan Ingram
YK
Wed.
[cross-listed
SOCI/SPTH]
6120 3.0
[cross-listed
ENVS]
6135 3.0 A
Sect 1
Topic: Fashion Theory
MC
singram@yorku.ca
R S104
7:00-10:00
6135 3.0 B
8836
Sect 2
Selected Topics in Media and Culture
Topic: Film and Philosophy
Elec.
MC
John Caruana
jcaruana@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Thurs
3:00-6:00
6135 3.0 C
8836
Sect 3
Selected Topics in Media and Culture
Topic: “Our” Toronto – “Our” Food
Elec.
MC
Mustafa Koc
mkoc@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Mon
12:00-3:00
7125 3.0
9922
Cinema and Media Studies
(PhD ONLY)
Elec.
MC
Sharon Hayashi
hayashi@yorku.ca
YK
CFT
137B
Thurs
10:00-2:00
[cross-listed
FILM/SPTH]
Politics and Policy [Fall]
6300 3.0
8940
The Political Economy of Culture & Communication
Elec.
PP
David Skinner
skinnerd@yorku.ca
YK
R N836
Mon
7:00-10:00
6306 3.0
8947
Cultural Policy
See Note below
Elec.
PP
Joyce Zemans
jzemans@yorku.ca
Wed
7:00-10:00
6335 3.0
Section A
8849
Selected Topics in Politics & Policy
Topic: Digital Media & Public Participation
(Teleconference Course) See description below
Please note this course starts the week before Labour
Day
Elec.
PP
Daniel Drache
drache@yorku.ca
YK
SSB
S126
YK
6336 3.0
8850
Politics of Aesthetics
Elec.
PP
Shannon Bell
shanbell@yorku.ca
8844
Managing the Broadcast and Digital Worlds
[by permission – see instructions below]
Elec.
PP
[cross-listed
ARTM]
[cross-listed
POLS/SPTH]
6340 3.0
[cross-listed
ARTM]
Stedman
120E
Wed.
8:15-11:30
am
Starts 2 Sept
Tues
7:00-10:00
Douglas Barrett
douglasbarrett@schulich.yo
rku.ca
YK
TEL
0013
YK
SSB
S125
Tues
7:00-10:00
Technology in Practice [Fall]
5501 3.0
8967
Contemporary Theory in the Visual Arts
Elec.
TP
Marc Couroux
couroux@yorku.ca
YK
CFA 338
Mon
2:30-5:30
6504 3.0
8963
Social & Cultural Implications of New Media
6507 3.0
8986
Future Cinema to Film
Elec.
TP
Elec.
TP
Ganaele Langlois
gana@yorku.ca
Caitlin Fisher
caitlin@yorku.ca
YK
VC 105
YK
CFA 303
Tues
4:00-7:00
Wed
9:30-12:30
8982
The Body and the Culture of Modernity
Elec.
TP
Darcey Callison
callison@yorku.ca
YK
MC 215
Mon
4:00-7:00
[cross-listed
VISA]
[cross-listed
FILM]
6522
6524 3.0
8988
Design, Theory and Criticism
Elec.
TP
TBD
8989
Design Issues
Elec.
TP
Wendy Wong
wsywong@yorku.ca
[cross-listed
MDES/ARTH]
6525 3.0
[cross-listed
MDES]
Winter 2016 starts on next page
YK
TEL
4023
YK
TEL
4023
Wed
9:30-12:30
Thurs
9:30-12:30
YK
Crs #
RY Crs
#
Title
Crs.
Type
Instructor
Univ/
Bldg/
Rm
Day/Time
WINTER TERM 2016
6002 3.0
8902
Research Methodologies
Req.
MA
Natalie Coulter
ncoulter@yorku.ca
YK
VH 2016
Tues
8:30-11:30
7200 3.0
9900
Advanced Research Methodologies
Req.
PhD
Paul Moore
psmoore@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Fri
12:00-3:00
Elec.
MC
Elec.
MC
Elec.
MC
Murray Pomerance
mpomeran@ryerson.ca
Andreas Kitzmann
kitzmann@yorku.ca
Elizabeth Trott
etrott@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
YK
MC 216
RY
TBD
Mon
3:00-6:00
Mon
11:30-2:30
Wed
12:00-3:00
Media & Culture (WINTER)
6096 3.0
8927
Reading Film
6100 3.0
8920
Theoretical Approaches
6111 3.0
8828
Philosophy, Culture and Values
6113 3.0
8934
Contemporary Topics in Social Theory
Elec.
MC
Sheila Cavanagh
sheila@yorku.ca
YK
MC 213
Tues
2:30-5:30
6114 3.0
8932
Communication, Culture and the City
6123 3.0
8833
Cultures of Sexuality and Gender
Elec.
MC
Elec.
MC
Markus Reisenleitner
mrln@yorku.ca
Susan Driver
sdriver@yorku.ca
YK
VC 105
YK
R N812
Tues
2:30-5:30
Tues
11:30-2:30
6136 3.0
8837
Asian Studies: Critical Perspectives
Elec.
MC
Janice Kim
jkim@yorku.ca
YK
R N836A
Fri
11:30-2:30
Elec.
PP
Jeremy Shtern
jshtern@ryerson.ca
RY
TBD
Thurs
12:00-3:00
[cross-listed
SOCI/SPTH]
[cross-listed
HIST/SOCI/
ANTH]
Politics and Policy (WINTER)
6301 3.0
8941
Issues in Comm. And Cultural Policy
6312 3.0
8957
Applied Research Methods: Policy & Regulatory Studies
Elec.
PP
TBD
YK
TBD
TBD
6322 3.0
8848
Armed Conflict: Peace and the Media
6335 3.0
8849
Selected Topics in Politics & Policy
Topic: Youth, Culture and Creative Economy
Elec.
PP
Elec.
PP
Pat Mazepa
pamazepa@yorku.ca
Miranda Campbell
YK
MC 101
RY
TBD
Thurs
11:30-2:30
Wed
3:00-6:00
Elec.
TP
Elec.
TP
Izabella Pruska-Oldenhoff
i2pruska@ryerson.ca
Graham Wakefield
grrrwaaa@yorku.ca
RY
TBD
YK
CFA
303
YK
TBD
Wed.
12:00-3:00
Tues
10:00-1:00
YK
WC
118
YK
TEL
3072
Wed
2:30-5:30
YK
MC 109
Tues
2:30-5:30
[cross-listed
ENVS]
Technology in Practice (WINTER)
6500 3.0
8960
Advanced Communication Technology
6508 3.0
8862
Future Cinema II: Applied Theory
8947
Cultural Production Workshop
Elec.
TP
TBD
8861
Bodies in Technology
Elec.
TP
Jody Berland
jberland@yorku.ca
XXXX
Technological Mediations in Visual Culture
Elec.
TP
Mary Morbey
mmorbey@edu.yorku.ca
9921
Technology, Communication and Culture
Elec.
TP
Jan Hadlaw
jhadlaw@yorku.ca
[cross-listed
FILM]
6510 3.0
[cross-listed
ENVS]
6538 3.0
[cross-listed
STS]
6539 3.0
[cross-listed
EDUC5856,
ARTH 5185]
7500 3.0
TBD
Tues
5:30-8:30
Summer Term 2016
The following courses are scheduled for Summer 2016. Others will be added as we learn about them. The full Summer 2016 timetable will not be
available until late March.
CMCT 6005 3.0/CC8905 Master’s Research Specialization and Practice (MA Level)
CMCT 7005 3.0/CC9906 PhD Field Seminar: Disciplinary Practices
Electives will be advertised at a later date
COURSE NOTES
Fall 2015
CMCT 6306 3.0 / CC 8947 Cultural Policy.
The companion course to this, CMCT 6305 3.0 Communications Policy, will not be taught this year. Instead, Prof. Zemans, who is teaching the
Cultural Policy course, will incorporate communications policy into her syllabus. If you are interested in taking this course and would like more
information on course content, please contact Kathleen Welsby at kwelsby@schulich.yorku.ca
CMCT 6340 / CC 8844 Managing the Broadcast and Digital Worlds
This course requires permission of the instructor. Please see separate application form available from the Com Cult program office.
Selected Topics – Course Descriptions
Fall 2015
CMCT 6135A / CC 8836 Section 1 Fall 2015
Selected Topics in Media & Culture: Topic – Fashion Theory
Instructor: Susan Driver
This course surveys and contextualizes key concepts, texts, and debates in the burgeoning field of fashion studies. Approaching fashion both from
an art historical understanding of dress and a sociological understanding of social change, it covers a range of themes including individual, social
and gender identity, clothes and the body, the erotic, consumption, and communication.
CMCT 6135B / CC 8836 Section 2 Fall 2015
Selected Topics in Media & Culture: Topic – Film and Philosophy
Instructor: John Caruana
Cinema has been a key topic of philosophical investigation into the phenomenology of time and space. This course reads philosophers of cinema
such as Deleuze, Bergson, Zizek and others to consider the epistemology of the moving image.
CMCT 6135C / CC 8836 Section 3 Fall 2015
Selected Topics in Media & Culture: Topic – “Our” Toronto – “Our” Food
Instructor: Mustafa Koc
This course looks at creation of cosmopolitan identity in the post-World War era in Toronto through the lens of food. During this period Toronto’s
image has been transformed from “Toronto the Good” to Toronto “the global city” and food and multicultural culinary experiences in the city has been
used extensively in commodifying and promoting this perception. This course will provide analytical insights from literatures on multiculturalism,
cosmopolitanism, globalization and food studies to explore how cultural practices are represented, how they change over time, and how differences
are negotiated in diverse metropolitan settings. Students will get a chance to work on a number of case studies on a selection of diasporic culinary
traditions and their representation in the media in Toronto.
CMCT 6335 / CC 8836 Fall 2015
Selected Topics in Politics and Policy: Topic – Digital Media & Political Participation
Wednesdays 8:15-11:30 am Location TBA START DATE = Wednesday, 2 September
Instructors: Prof. Daniel Drache (York/Ryerson); Prof. Taberez A. Neyazi (Jamia Millia Islamia)
This is a joint course between Communication & Culture at York/Ryerson, and the Centre for Culture, Media and Governance at Jamia Millia Islamia
University in New Delhi. As there is a significant time difference between New Delhi and Toronto the start time will be at 8:15 AM in York’s video
television center. The course will begin on September 3 and the final joint seminar will end on October 29. During the month of November
York/Ryerson students will meet separately to finish their assignments and seminar discussions. The course will end in the November for
York/Ryerson students.
This course introduces students to the way digital media have an impact on political participation and precipitated change in the character of
citizenship. We will particularly examine the internet, and mobile phones and look at both the direct and indirect impact on political participation,
protest movements and citizenship. The emergence of new forms of political participation outside the institutionalized and representative modes of
participation has been greatly facilitated by digital media. Yet, it would be difficult to understand the impact of digital media in isolation from traditional
media in a society where the reach of the internet is limited. Therefore, we will also critically examine the convergence between traditional and digital
media and how it’s transforming the nature and modes of political participation both at election time and between elections. What role has the digital
media played in transforming election outcomes and changing the political landscape? One of the goals is to give participants a strong comparative
understanding of the diverse impacts of social media in contrasting settings.
The course will focus on both theories and practices of digital media and political participation. The American 2008 and 2012 presidential elections,
the six month 2012 Québec student strike, the anticorruption movements in India, Indonesia and the Ukraine, the surprising 2015 win of India’s
common man party in the new Delhi Assembly are examples to draw on. As well the role of whistleblowers such as Edward Snowden and Julian
Assange raise many questions about access to information, citizen rights and national security. The first part of the course will analyze various
theories and concepts in the field of digital media and political communication/political participation, while the second part will focus more on the
cases. Majority of the cases will be selected from India, but we will also look at the cases outside of India as it will help in getting comparative
perspectives and enrich our understanding of the subject. Since the field of digital political participation is quite dynamic, the topics and readings
might change during the course of the classes.
Winter 2016
CMCT 6335 / CC 8836 Winter 2016
Selected Topics in Politics and Policy: Topic – Youth Culture and the Creative Economy
Instructor: Miranda Campbell
Since the emergence of post-war subcultures, youth creative activities have merited considerable academic, economic, and political attention. This
course will examine the development of youth culture through studying youth as consumers and producers of cultural production, and assess the
policy implications of the youth creative economy.
Courses in other graduate programs
Please let us know during your advising appointment if you are interested in taking an out-of-program course. These courses will be
considered elective courses for both York students and Ryerson students. Forms must be processed through your program administrator.