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Electives

If you are looking for an exciting elective to round out your schedule, consider these course from across FCAT that are open to students outside of these programs. 

FALL 2025 ELECTIVES

School of Communication

CMNS 200: Professional & Strategic Communication

Daniel Ahadi 
Online

Communication shapes how we understand each other, influences decisions, and drives meaningful change. This course offers you the opportunity to develop the strategic skills to create messages that inspire, build trust, and ethically navigate the complexities of an increasingly connected and digital world, whether you鈥檙e preparing for careers in corporate, nonprofit, or government sectors, planning for your co-op term, or planning to pursue post-graduate and professional studies.

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CMNS 215: Media and Identity

Jas Morgan
Burnaby Campus | Thursday 12:30-2:20pm 

How do we shape the Internet? How does it shape us back? This course explores how personal identity shapes media perception, with a focus on the Internet as a case study. Through key concepts like Being, Self, Difference, and Conflict, students will unpack how race, gender, nationalism, class, and more structure online experiences. Grounded in fields like Black Studies, Trans Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Queer Theory, this class encourages reflexive, critical research into the politics of identity and media in North America today.

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CMNS 315: Indigenous Cinema, Television, and Digital Media

Karrmen Crey
Burnaby Campus | Monday 2:30-5:20pm

This course will examine the rise of Indigenous cinema, television, and digital media in North America from the 1990s onward. We will explore the historical, social, and cultural dimensions of Indigenous media to make visible its scope and diversity, and develop the theoretical frameworks needed to understand and interpret these works. Indigenous media creators have received unprecedented visibility in recent years, including the groundbreaking series Reservation Dogs and films including Night Raiders and Sugarcane, signaling a boom in Indigenous production that is shaped and defined by Indigenous perspectives and priorities. (Prerequisite: 17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.)

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CMNS 424: Colonialism, Culture, and Identity鈥擨ndigenous and Postcolonial Identities, Politics, and Resistance

Karrmen Crey 
Vancouver Campus | Thuesday 4:30-7:20pm 

This course examines Indigenous and postcolonial identities, resistance, and resurgence. Indigenous peoples have philosophies and critical perspectives that are rooted in histories, kin relations, and worldviews specific to Indigenous peoples, and as this course will explore, is also in conversation with other areas of postcolonial thought, recognizing shared histories of dispossession and aspirations for sovereignty and liberation. This course examines the overlaps and divergences of Indigenous and postcolonial thought, including visual and media arts. We take as our starting point the understanding that art and media are forms of theory, where creatives transform understandings of kinship, nationhood, and resistance. (Prerequisite: 26 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 60 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.)

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School for the Contemporary Arts

CA 135 - Introduction to Cinema

Peter Dickinson | Online

This course introduces students to the foundations of cinema studies through an historical survey of the moving image from the nineteenth century to the present. By examining a diverse range of films across genres, movements, and national cinemas, students will develop a critical understanding of film form, aesthetics, and historical context. Among the filmmakers we will study: George Miller, Robert Wiene, Alice-Guy Blach茅, Akira Kurosawa, Vittorio de Sica, Wong Kar-wai, Fernando Meirelles and K谩tia Lund, Jane Campion, Coralie Fargeat, Chris Marker, Trinh T. Minh-ha, Sarah Polley, Marie Clements, Alfred Hitchcock, and Chantal Akerman.

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CA 142 - Music Apprciation in the 21st Century

Arne Eigenfeldt | Online

A post-modern course in music appreciation that aims to develop a critical ear and advanced listening skills. It will present a diversity of music from many cultures, styles, and periods in an effort to discover similarities, differences, and defining characteristics. This is a course of music appreciation for the 21st century, not of the 21st century; in other words, we will be listening and discussing many more works beyond the last two decades. All this will be done without any necessary previous knowledge of music theory, music history, or even the ability to read music.

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CA 149 - Sound

Stefan Smulovitz | Online

This course is an introduction to sound and all the forms it can take. It does not require any previous music theory and is designed to be relevant to anyone interested in deepening their relationship to sound. Students will be introduced to basic acoustics, the techniques & technology associated with recording, transforming, storing, and transmitting sound as well as a philosophical exploration of sound. This exploration of the technologies and concepts related to sound will lead to examinations of movie soundtracks, radio, theatre, installations, sound art, gaming and radio art. Special attention will be paid to the role of sound design/music in fixed media, broadcast, performance (theatre, dance, etc.), and installation art. This course will also explore the larger issues of sound in contemporary society through environmental sound, noise, and acoustic communication.

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School of Interactive Arts & Technology

IAT 110 (B-HUM): Visual Communication Desig

Kenneth Zupan
Burnaby Campus | Friday 2:30-5:20pm

Visual communication for art and design in digital media. Students learn the fundamentals of digital raster and vector image creation. Design principles such as form, typography and colour theory as they apply to digital media will be taught. Students will have core projects in digital photography, magazine layout and kinetic typography. Primarily for non-SIAT majors; while SIAT majors may take the course, it does not count for credit for SIAT degree requirements. Breadth-Humanities.

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IAT 111: Artificial Intelligence Today and Tomorrow: Systems, Applications and Ethical Challenges

Steve DiPaola
Burnaby | Thursday 2:30-5:20

In this new, introductory Interactive Arts & Technology course, students will explore AI technologies, their societal implications, and their transformative potential. Through a non-technical approach, students in this course will develop an understanding of AI systems and their ethical considerations through an examination of their technological foundations and practical applications. 

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IAT 167: Digital Games: Genre, Structure, Programming and Play

Christopher Shaw
Surrey | Monday 4:30-6:20pm

This second programming course covers practical programming concepts in the context of game development and builds on the basic programming concepts learned in CMPT 120 (or equivalent introductory programming course). The course introduces game mechanics and systems and the programming methods fundamental to their implementation in video games. Students learn how games are structured and designed, as well as the translation of the game design document into programmatic code. Issues of user interface, challenge and skill, and competition are discussed as are principles of interaction to facilitate play and engagement and compelling entertainment.

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IAT 309: Writign Methods for Research

Surrey | Wednesday 2:30-5:20pm

This course prepares students for the demands of a high-tech workforce that values collaboration among artists, engineers, designers, and project managers鈥攑rofessional writers who must be able to adapt their communications effectively to meet the needs of experts and lay audiences. This course helps students to develop critical thinking, research, and writing strategies that can be adapted to a wide range of professional communication situations related to design, media and technology. Through the exploration of research methods and contexts, students recognize written documents as applications of critical thinking and communication principles and learn to shift content, as well as authorial voice and tone, across modalities of writing. (Prerequisite: IAT 206W with a minimum grade of C- and completion of 48 units.)

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Publishing Program

PUB 101: Publication of Self in Everyday Life

John Maxwell
Vancouver campus

An exploration of how social media have transformed social behaviour (presentation of self) into proto-publishing (publication of self) by encouraging greater public participation in publishing in all forms of publishing in society. Using online tracking to discern practices, attention is given to how social media contribute to the social identities of participants and how they affect social interaction.

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ELECTIVES BY SCHOOL/PROGRAM

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Breadth-Social Sciences.

An introduction to selected theories about human communication.

This course is required for a major, honours or minor in communication.

An introduction to the forms, theories and institutions of communication as they relate to broader social change, with a focus on the political, economic and regulatory shifts characterizing Canadian and transnational media systems.

This course is required for a major, honours or minor in communication.

Media and identity centers the idea of "social position" and that media are created and interpreted from and through specific perspectives and experiences of the world.

Prerequisite: 9 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C-.

Harbour Centre on Tuesdays

Focuses on communication for social change; historical and contemporary perspectives in consumer culture; technology, media and popular culture; media and identity; and communication as public education.

Prerequisite: 9 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C-.

Writing.

An introduction to new communication/information technologies, seen as new media of communication: the technologies, their uses, and the social issues arising from them.

Students with credit for CMNS 253 may not take this course for further credit.

Topics on public and popular cultures with a focus on social, political, and cultural dynamics. Explores audiences, publics, and institutions at a global, national, and/or local level.

Prerequisite: 17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.

This course can be repeated once for credit (up to a maximum of two times).

Examination of the emergence and shaping of information and communication technologies and science in the digital age. Explores new media and social change between everyday life, social institutions, and various enterprises.

Prerequisite: 17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.

This course can be repeated once for credit if second topic is different (up to a maximum of two times).

Breadth-Humanities.

As the introductory course in IAT, this course teaches the core fundamental principles in 2D visual design, sequential and animation design. Students learn the fundamentals of digital photography and vector image creation.

Introduction to fundamental design principles for visual communication. Students will examine historical, philosophical, perceptual and semiotic approaches to understanding graphic design, and will explore principles of form, such as structure and composition, hierarchy, form, color, space, scale, typography, and legibility and readability through hands-on projects.

Breadth-Humanities.

Students learn the fundamentals of digital raster and vector image creation. Design principles such as form, typography and colour theory as they apply to digital media will be taught.

Primarily for non-SIAT majors; while SIAT majors may take the course, it does not count for credit for SIAT degree requirements.

Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.

Reviews the history of games, tracing the evolution of game design from board and card games through the latest electronic products. Examines the medium of games through various lenses: games as rules (game design), games as play (game experience), and games as culture (culture within games, and role of games and game cultures).

An introduction to music theory and exposure to the application of music materials in a wide spectrum of music literature will be accompanied by practical exercises. The course is designed for students with no formal music training.

CA 117 鈥 MODERN ART HISTORY (3)

Breadth-humanities.

An introduction to the visual arts of the nineteenth century. formal and thematic approaches to the arts will be introduced, with attention to the social, institutional, national, and international contexts of art.

A studio course devoted to the development of movement skills through specific styles of dance. The content of the course changes every semester. May repeat for credit. 

Prerequisite: 12 units.
Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.

Study of the development of modern dance and the reformation of the ballet from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

Students with credit for CA 227 may not take this course for further credit. 

Breadth-humanities.

An introductory course designed to facilitate a fundamental understanding of film technique, style and form in order to develop the skills with which to analyze films of all genres. The course will involve the screening and discussion of several complete feature films and shorts, as well as excerpts from others.

Breadth-humanities.

This course will examine the early development of cinema from 1890 until about 1945, with particular emphasis on the fundamental principles of film as an art form.

Breadth-humanities.

Looks at the issues involved in being a creative musical artist in the 21st century. Topics include historical context, race and gender, the role and influence of politics, music and identity, appropriation, art music, functional music, and hybrid practices.

Breadth-humanities.

21st century music appreciation aims to develop a critical ear and advanced listening skills. The course will take a post-modern approach to appreciation in that it will present a diversity of music from many cultures, styles, and periods in an effort to discover similarities, differences, and defining characteristics.

Quantitative.

Introduction to acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, audio sampling and signal processing, and sound production in general as relating to music, film sound, radio, new media, art installations and live performance.

Students who have taken CA 184 may not take this course for further credit.

An approach to the elements of acting for non-theatre performance majors. Work will include development of individual powers of expression - vocal, physical, intellectual, imaginative, and emotional.

CA 160 鈥 INTRODUCTORY STUDIO IN VISUAL ART I (3) 

A hands-on studio course modeled on the progressive development of artistic practice from simple mark-making to full scale installation.

A course materials fee is required.

An introduction to the processes, tools and technology used in the production and presentation of the fine and performing arts. Course requirements will include hands-on assignments in the production of theatre, dance, and music events.

Laboratory fee required.

Introduces the many ways artists have employed moving images across artistic disciplines. By the completion of the course students should have a good sense of both the historical innovations and traditions in moving-image arts as well as the use of moving images in the contemporary art scene.

A survey of the key works and ideas that have informed contemporary moving image art practice nationally and internationally, from the early european avant-garde to the lyrical and structural works of the seventies, the issue-based work of the eighties, and finally the gallery-based practices of the present day.

Prerequisite: one of ca 117 (or 167), 118 (or 168), 135, 136, or 137, or 30 units.

The relationship of music and culture, with emphasis on traditional and contemporary music in asia, africa, the middle east, latin america and the caribbean, and indigenous cultures of north america.

Prerequisite: 45 units.

Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

The detailed structural analysis of dramatic texts and/or performances, their historical context, their development and production histories.

Focus on skills and knowledge required to thrive as a creator/entrepreneur in contemporary society. Exploration of the life cycle of various creative enterprises and the development of a personal plan to realize the student's goals.

Prerequisite: 45 units.

This course examines the role of music in the viewer's experience of moving pictures. Beginning with the early 1900s, the lectures will introduce important composers, directors, films, genres and historical periods. Specific films and other works will be analyzed.

Prerequisite: 60 credit hours. Students who have taken this course previously as special topics may not take it again for further credit.

An exploration of how social media have transformed social behaviour (presentation of self) into proto-publishing (publication of self) by encouraging greater public participation in publishing in all forms of publishing in society. Using online tracking to discern practices, attention is given to how social media contribute to the social identities of participants and how they affect social interaction.

Introduction to the elements and principles of graphic design with a focus on the development of software skills, in design, layout, and production.

An in-depth study of the design methods fundamental to books in print and digital media. Students evaluate, and engage in the design and repurposing of publications, exploring current practices of content delivery online and through mobile devices. Emphasis is placed on innovative methods and design practices for screen-based publishing.

Prerequisite: PUB 231

Intensive analysis of a particular topic, practice, or technique in publishing.

May repeat for credit a maximum of two times.

Prerequisite: 75 credits.

Intensive analysis of a particular topic, practice, or technique in publishing.

May repeat for credit a maximum of two times.

Prerequisite: 75 credits.

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Making Knowledge Public explores how knowledge produced at universities makes its way into society, the public value of this knowledge, and the diminishing attention given to this public mission. The course asks questions such as: how does research shape public policy? how is the public involved in science? and, how is research taken up by the public? The course is premised on the belief that, in today鈥檚 climate, it is more important than ever for universities, researchers, and scholars to assert themselves in the public sphere in more purposeful ways. Students will have the opportunity to explore academic publishing and the importance this segment of the publishing industry plays in our society.