Complementary Courses in Other Departments

CULTURAL STUDIES

The appearance of a course on these lists of recommended courses does not guarantee that the Department running this course and the instructor will grant permission to a student from Cultural Studies to take this course in 2015-16; please always inquire about the feasibility of taking these courses this academic year. Please also verify the term (Fall or Winter) on the Minerva system, as scheduling may change.

There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Cultural Studies program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Cultural Studies methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

LISTINGS BY CULTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:

Courses in Cultural Studies with a Canadian Component
• ANTH 436: North American Native Peoples (Winter)
• CANS 301: Popular Music in Québec (Fall)
• CANS 306: Issues in Native Studies (Winter)
• CANS 310: Canadian Culture: Context and Issues (Fall)
• CANS 315 (ARTH 315): Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
• CANS 413/ QCST 440: Living in Montreal: History of Ethnicity from the 19th Century to Contemporary Society (Winter)
• CANS 501: The Canadian North (Winter)
• FREN 252: Littérature Québécoise (Fall) [in French]

Courses in Cultural Studies with an Historical Dimension
• ARTH 325: Visual Culture of Renaissance Venice (Winter)
• GERM 368: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Fall)
• JWST 309: Jews in Film (Winter)
• EAST 454: Chinese Cinema (Winter)
• MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (Fall)
• MUAR 393: Introduction to Jazz (Winter)
• RUSS 430: High Stalinist Culture (Winter)

Cultural Studies 400-level Courses with a Theoretical Component
• COMS 425: Urban Culture and Everyday Life (Winter)
• COMS 491: Media, Communication, Culture (Fall)
• COMS 492: Big Data (Winter)
• LLCU 212: Understanding Digital and Social Media (Fall)
• LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)

Major Figures
• RUSS 337: Nabokov (Winter)

Suggested courses in Other Departments for Cultural Studies, in alphabetical order:

Anthropology
• ANTH 436: North American Native Peoples (Winter)

Art History
• ARTH 315 (CANS 315): Indigenous Arts and Culture (Fall)
• ARTH 325: Visual Culture of Renaissance Venice (Winter)
• ARTH 354: Visual Culture of Crime (Winter)

Canadian Studies
• CANS 301: Popular Music in Québec (Fall)
• CANS 306: Issues in Native Studies (Winter)
• CANS 310: Canadian Culture: Context and Issues (Fall)
• CANS 315 (ARTH 315): Indigenous Art and Culture (Fall)
• CANS 413/ QCST 440: Living in Montreal: History of Ethnicity from the 19th Century to Contemporary Society (Winter)
• CANS 501: The Canadian North (Winter)

Classics
• CLAS 206: Classics and Modern Media (Winter)

Communication Studies
• COMS 310: Media and Feminist Studies (Winter)
• COMS 425: Urban Culture and Everyday Life (Winter)
• COMS 491: Media, Communication, Culture (Fall)
• COMS 492: Big Data (Winter)

East Asian Studies
• EAST 350: Gender and Sexuality in Chinese Literature (Fall)
• EAST 454: Chinese Cinema (Winter)

French
• FREN 252: Littérature Québécoise (Fall)

German
• GERM 336: German Language, Media, Culture (Fall)
• GERM 368: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Fall)

Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas
• PLAI 400: Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities—Mind, Brain, and Culture (Fall)
• PLAI 500: Advanced Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar—Activists in Revolution (Fall)

Italian
• ITAL 375: Cinema and Society in Contemporary Italy (Fall)
• ITAL 477: Italian Cinema and Video (Winter)

Jewish Studies
• JWST 309: Jews in Film (Winter)
• JWST 376: Topics in Jewish Music (Winter)

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures
• LLCU 212: Understanding Digital and Social Media (Fall)
• LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)
• LLCU 230: Environmental Imagination in Literary Texts and Films (Fall)

Music (Arts)
• MUAR 392: Popular Music after 1945 (Fall)
• MUAR 393: Introduction to Jazz (Winter)

Philosophy
• PHIL 242: Intro to Feminist Theory (Fall)
• PHIL 327: Philosophy of Race (Fall)
• PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)

Russian
• RUSS 337: Nabokov (Winter)
• RUSS 382: Russian Opera (Fall)
• RUSS 430: High Stalinist Culture (Winter)

Spanish
• HISP 340: Spanish-American Cinema (Winter)
• HISP 341: Spanish Cinema (Fall)

Women’s Studies
• WMST 200: Introduction to Women’s  Studies (Fall)

Sexual Diversity Studies
• SDST 250: Introduction to Sexual Diversity Studies (Fall)

DRAMA AND THEATRE

This list comprises 2015-16 courses in other departments that might be accepted by your advisor for credit towards your Drama and Theatre program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2015-16. Do not take these courses in a different year and assume that they will count towards your Drama and Theatre program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Drama and Theatre program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Drama and Theatre methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

Courses are listed first by Drama and Theatre program requirements they fulfil and thereafter in alphabetical order by department.

The online Faculty of Arts course catalogue for 2015-16 can be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/study/2015-2016/faculties/arts/undergraduate/courses/

LISTINGS BY DRAMA AND THEATRE PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS:

Courses in a Major Figure in Drama and Theatre
• None offered this year; please choose from Department of English course list.

Courses in Drama and Theatre with a Canadian Component
• None offered this year; please choose from Department of English course list.

Courses in Theatre History
• None offered this year; choose from Department of English course list.

Courses in Drama and Theatre with an Historical Dimension:
• ITAL 290: Commedia dell’Arte (Fall) [in Italian]
• HISP 390: 20C Drama: Satirical Drama and Theatre of Social Protest (Fall) [in Spanish]

Courses in Drama and Theatre before 1900
• ITAL 290: Commedia dell’Arte (Fall) [in Italian]

400-level Drama and Theatre courses with Theoretical Component
• None offered this year; choose from Department of English course list.

All Accepted Drama and Theatre Courses in Other Departments in Alphabetical Order:

German
• GERM 368: Fin-de-Siècle Vienna (Fall)

Hispanic Studies
• HISP 390: 20C Drama: Satirical Drama and Theatre of Social Protest (Fall) [in Spanish]

Italian
• ITAL 290: Commedia dell’Arte (Fall) [in Italian]

Philosophy
• PHIL 242: Intro to Feminist Theory (Fall)
• PHIL 336: Aesthetics (Fall)
• PHIL 436: Aesthetics 2 (Winter)

Russian Studies
• RUSS 382: Russian Opera (Fall)

LITERATURE:

This list comprises 2015-216 courses in other departments that might be accepted by your advisor for credit towards your Literature program. Please consult an advisor about where one of these courses might be appropriately placed in your Program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2015-16. If you take these courses in a different year, do not assume that they will count towards your Literature program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Literature Program credit. If you feel you have identified an appropriate course, please show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.

• JWST 353: The Messiah in 20th-Century Jewish and Christian Literature (Winter)
• LLCU 255: Introduction to Literary Text Mining (Fall)
• LLCU 230: Environmental Imagination in Literary Texts and Films (Fall)
• LLCU 301: Rogues, Vagabonds, Madmen and the Picaresque Tradition (Winter)
• RUSS 337: Nabokov (Winter)