Note:听 Many courses are 鈥淪pecial Topics鈥� courses whose subject matter changes from year to year.听 If you think a particular 鈥淪pecial Topics鈥� course may be appropriate for the COMS Minor please suggest it to the Undergraduate Program Director.听
Please note that students may take a maximum of 6 credits of complementary courses outside of Communication Studies.听
Please note that this is a list of course which appear in departmental calendars.听 There is no guarantee that all of these course will be offered in any given year.
Anthropology
ANTH 540 Critique & Social Theory
Art History
ARTH 440 - The Body and Visual Culture
Canadian Studies
CANS 404 - Critical Museology and Heritage in Canada
CANS 406 - Media, Politics and Populism
CANS 413 Canada and Quebec Seminar
Classics
CLAS 206 - Classics in Modern Media
CLAS 306 - Classics in Modern Media
East Asian Studies
EAST 250 - Introduction to Asian Media Studies
EAST 361- Animation and New Media
EAST 362 - Japanese Cinema
EAST 364 - Mass Culture and Postwar Japan
EAST 372 - Topics in Television (Asia)
EAST 375 - Korean Media and Popular Culture
EAST 477 - Media and Environment in Asia
English
ENGL 275 - Introduction to Cultural Studies
ENGL 277 - Introduction to Film Studies
ENGL 279 - Introduction to Film as Art
ENGL 280 - Introduction to Film as Mass Medium
ENGL 351 - Studies in the History of Film 2
ENGL 378 - Media and Culture
ENGL 380 - Non-Fiction Media: Cinema, Television, Radio
ENGL 383 - Studies in Communications 1
ENGL 388 - Studies in Popular Culture
ENGL 389 - Studies in Popular Culture
ENGL 476 - Alternative Approaches to Media
ENGL 490 Intro to Digital Humanities
ENGL 492 - Image and Text
Film
FILM 279 - Introduction to Film History
French
FREN 498 Questions de litt茅rature: Introduction 脿 la fouille textuelle
German
GERM 375 - German Media Studies
History
HIST 301 - U.S. Mass Media
Indigenous Studies
INDG 400 - Interdisciplinary Seminar in Indigenous Studies
Languages, Literatures and Cultures
LLCU 300 - Cinema and the Visual
LLCU 301 Topics on Culture and Thought
LLCU 498 - Digital Project
Management (Faculty of)
MGPO 434 Narrating Life: Fact, Fiction, and Modelling Possible Worlds
麻豆传媒网站 Writing Centre (1 of 2 only)
*Can no longer count to the COMS minor as of January 1, 2026. Students who have taken WCOM 314 and 317 prior to January 1, 2026 may still include them in the COMS minor*
WCOM 314 - Communicating Science
WCOM 317 - Writing the Internet
Music (Faculty of)
*Can no longer count to the COMS minor as of September 2024.听 Students who have taken MUAR 392 or MUSR 202 prior to September 2024 may still include them in the COMS minor*
MUAR 392 Popular Music after 1945
MUSR听202 Fundamentals of New Media
Philosophy
PHIL 446 Current Issues in Political Philosophy:听 Social Epistemology 鈥淒emocratic Theory in the Digital Age鈥� (only this topic can count)
PHIL 481 Topics in Philosophy: Artificial Intelligence (only this topic can count)
Sociology
SOC 318 - Sociology of the Media
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