This course explores Black media production, representation, and consumption through the analytical lenses of Black diaspora studies, critical race studies, political economy of media and more. Themes include, Black media histories, radical traditions, creative expression, and social movements. Students will explore various forms of media production created and influenced by Black communities globally. The course readings and assignments examine the interconnection between the lived cultural, social, and historical experiences of the African diaspora and the media artefacts they create as producers, or they are referenced as subjects. Students will critically examine media artefacts (music, television shows, movies, social media content) through various lenses, including race and gender theory, rhetoric, visual communication, and digital media analysis.

Selfies are an integral component of contemporary media culture and used to sell everyone from niche celebrities to the Prime Minister. This class examines the many meanings of selfies to trace their importance in contemporary media and digital cultures as well as their place within, and relationship to, historically and theoretically grounded concepts of photography and self portraiture.

Understanding the interests and goals of audiences is a key part of media production. This course introduces communication research methods including ratings, metrics, in-depth interviews, and focus groups. The focus of class discussion and research project is to use these methods to be able to understand the nature of audiences’ media use in the digital age.

Same as JOUC80H3

This course will examine Critical Disability Studies as it intersects with and informs Media Studies and Science & Technology Studies with a focus on the advancement of disability justice goals as they relate to topics that may include: interspecies assistances and co-operations, military/medical technologies that enhance "ability," the possibilities and limitations of cyborg theory for a radical disabilities politics and media practice informed by the disability justice ethics of “nothing about us without us.”

This course will examine ethical considerations for conducting digital research with a focus on privacy, consent, and security protections, especially as these issues affect underrepresented and minoritized communities.

The course explores critical data studies and considers critical understandings of artificial intelligence, with a focus on topics that may include algorithmic fairness, data infrastructures, AI colonialism, algorithmic resistance, and interplays between race/gender/sexuality issues and data/artificial intelligence.

The advancement of religious concepts and movements has consistently been facilitated - and contested - by contemporaneous media forms, and this course considers the role of media in the creation, development, and transmission of religion(s), as well as the challenges posed to modern religiosities in a digital era.

This seminar elaborates on foundational concepts and transformations in the media industries, such as conglomeration, platformization, datafication, and digitization. Taking a global perspective, emerging industry practices will be discussed, such as gig labour, digital advertising, and cryptocurrency.

This course focuses on the process of platformization and how it impacts cultural production. It provides an introduction into the fields of software, platform, and app studies. The tenets of institutional platform power will be discussed, such as economics, infrastructure, and governance, as well as questions pertaining to platform labour, digital creativity, and democracy.

This course examines the complex and dynamic interplay of media and politics in contemporary China, and the role of the government in this process.

Same as GASC40H3

This course introduces students to academic perspectives on games and play. Students develop a critical understanding of a variety of topics and discussions related to games, gamification, and play in the physical and virtual world.

New media technologies enable more production and distribution of culturally, ethnically and linguistically diverse voices than ever before. Who produces these diverse voices and how accessible are these media? This course explores various types of diasporic media from century-old newspapers to young and hip news and magazine blogs, produced by and for members of a multicultural society.

Same as JOUC60H3

How does journalism engage and feed into broader public debates? And how does journalism from around the world impact such debates differently? This course considers the topic of journalism and public sphere theory, and discusses the relationship between the press and politics, government, and democracy. The course takes a comparative lens to journalism, and will also draw on ethnographic readings and approaches.
Same as ANTC53H3, (MDSC53H3)

This course explores themes of labour in news media and new media. Topics include labour conditions for media workers across sectors; the labour impacts of media convergence; and the global distribution of media labour including content generation and management. The course is structured by intersectional analyses, studying how race and racism, class, gender, sex and sexism, sexuality, nationality, global location and citizenship status, Indigeneity and religion shape our experiences of media, journalism and labour.

Same as JOUC62H3

This course examines the synergistic relationship between the moving image and music and how these synergies result in processes of meaning-making and communication. Drawing on readings in cultural theory, cultural studies, musicology and film studies, the course considers examples from the feature film, the Hollywood musical, and the animated cartoon.

Same as MUZC20H3/(VPMC85H3)

This is a senior seminar that focuses on the connections among media and the arts. Students explore how artists use the potentials offered by various media forms, including digital media, to create new ways of expression. Topics vary.

This is a senior seminar that focuses on media and society. It explores the social and political implications of media, including digital media, and how social forces shape their development. Topics vary.

This is a senior seminar that closely examines media as institutions such as media regulatory bodies, firms, and organizations, as well as media in relation to other institutions in broader political economies. In this course, students will have the opportunity to interrogate key theoretical concepts developed in critical media industry studies and apply them to real-life cases through research and writing.

Together with MGAB02H3, this course provides a rigorous introduction to accounting techniques and to the principles and concepts underlying these techniques.
The preparation of financial statements is addressed from the point of view of both preparers and users of financial information.

This course is a continuation of MGAB01H3. Students are encouraged to take it immediately after completing MGAB01H3. Technical topics include the reporting and interpretation of debt and equity issues, owners' equity, cash flow statements and analysis. Through cases, choices of treatment and disclosure are discussed, and the development of professional judgment is encouraged.

An introduction to management and cost accounting with an emphasis on the use of accounting information in managerial decision-making. Topics include patterns of cost behaviour, transfer pricing, budgeting and control systems.

Together with MGAC02H3, this course examines financial reporting in Canada. Through case analysis and the technical material covered, students will build on their knowledge covered in MGAB01H3, MGAB02H3 and, to a lesser extent, MGAB03H3.

This course is a continuation of MGAC01H3. Students will further develop their case writing, technical skills and professional judgment through the study of several complex topics. Topics include leases, bonds, pensions, future taxes and earnings per share.

An examination of various cost accumulation and performance evaluation systems and decision-making tools. Topics include job and process costing, flexible budgeting, and variance analysis and cost allocations.

An introduction to the principles and practice of auditing. The course is designed to provide students with a foundation in the theoretical and practical approaches to auditing by emphasizing auditing theory and concepts, with some discussion of audit procedures and the legal and professional responsibilities of the auditor.

First of two courses in Canadian income taxation. It provides the student with detailed instruction in income taxation as it applies to individuals and small unincorporated businesses. Current tax laws are applied to practical problems and cases. Covers employment income, business and property income, and computation of tax for individuals.

This course is intended to help students understand the information systems that are a critical component of modern organizations. The course covers the technology, design, and application of data processing and information systems, with emphasis on managerial judgment and decision-making. This course includes work-integrated-learning components, and satisfies the WIL requirement of the BBA degree.

This course covers special topics in the area of accounting. The specific topics will vary from year to year, but could include topics in: data analytics for accounting profession, accounting for finance professionals, forensic accounting, bankruptcy management and integrated reporting, etc. The specific topics to be covered will be set out in the syllabus for the course for each semester in which it is offered.

An extension of the study of areas covered in the introductory audit course and will include the application of risk and materiality to more advanced topic areas such as pension and comprehensive auditing. Other topics include special reports, future oriented financial information and prospectuses. This will include a review of current developments and literature.

An examination of how organizations support the implementation of strategy through the design of planning processes, performance evaluation, reward systems and HR policies, as well as corporate culture. Class discussion will be based on case studies that illustrate a variety of system designs in manufacturing, service, financial, marketing and professional organizations, including international contexts. This course includes work-integrated-learning components, and satisfies the WIL requirement of the BBA degree.