Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

CCIT Programs | CCIT Courses

Faculty and Staff List

Professor Emeriti
A.K.P. Wensley, M.A, M.A., M.B.A., Ph.D.

Professors
G. Allen, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
J. Boase, M.A., Ph.D.
M.P. Boucher, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
O. Bountali, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
T. Bowen, B.F.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.
B. Caraway, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
Y. Chen, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
S. Cherki El Idrissi, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD.
N. Cohen, B.J., M.A., Ph.D.
B. Coleman, B.A., Ph.D.
N. Dayha, B.A., M.Ed., Ph.D.
A. Delfanti, D.V.M., M.A., Ph.D.
D. Guadagnolo, B.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D
T.J. Karppi, M.A., Ph.D
R. Lotfabadi, B.A., M.Des, Ph.D.
K. Maddalena, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
B. McEwan, B.A., M.A., Ph.D
R. McEwen, B.Sc., M.B.A., M.Sc., Ph.D.
A. Nath,  B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
M. Nixon, B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
J. Packer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
S. Sabie, B.Sc., M.Arch., M.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D.
S. Sharma, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
S. Szigeti, B.A., M.A., M.i.S.T., Ph.D
L. Topouzova, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
G. Virag, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.
H. Yoo, B.A., M.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Director
Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology
Sarah Sharma
Room 3014, CCT Building
905-569-4346
sarah.sharma@utoronto.ca

Associate Director
Jeffrey Boase
Room 3073, CCT Building
j.boase@utoronto.ca

Program Advisors
Communication, Culture, Information and Technology
Alessandro Delfanti
a.delfanti@utoronto.ca

Digital Enterprise Management
Brett Caraway
905-569-4503

Steve Szigeti
Steve.szigeti@utoronto.ca

Professional Writing and Communication
Lilia Topouzova
lilia.toupouzova@utoronto.ca

Technology, Coding and Society
Michael Nixon
michael.nixon@utoronto.ca

Sheridan College
Associate Dean of CCIT|
Tania Senewiratne
tania.senewiratne@sheridancollege.ca

Program Coordinator, Sheridan CCIT
Pamela Shaw
pamela.shaw1@sheridancollege.ca

Undergraduate Program Coordinator
Truc Tran
Room 3010, CCT Building
iccit.advising@utoronto.ca
 
Undergraduate Advisor and Program Administrator
Estina Boddie
Room 3018, CCT Building
iccit.advising@utoronto.ca

Department and Program Administrator
Amanpreet Khurana
Room 3013, CCT Building
iccit.advising@utoronto.ca

Work Integrated Learning Coordinator
Samantha Clarizio
Experiential Education Unit
www.utm.utoronto.ca/experience
Email: experientialeducation.utm@utoronto.ca

 

The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information & Technology (ICCIT) offers interdisciplinary programs at the University of Toronto Mississauga:

  • CCIT Major
  • Digital Enterprise Management (DEM) Specialist
  • Professional Writing and Communication Major and Minor
  • Technology, Coding & Society


ICCIT programs combine academic courses in the arts and sciences with hands-on applied courses in digital media and technology. The focus of these ICCIT programs is on the generation, diffusion, and social impact of new technologies, and complex interactions between media, knowledge and communication technologies and individuals, organizations and society.

In addition to receiving an honours degree from the University of Toronto, ICCIT students who successfully complete CCIT Major or DEM Specialist programs have the opportunity to obtain a Certificate in Digital Communications from Sheridan College.

Entry into ICCIT programs is limited and students are urged to read the program information in the calendar carefully and to consult the institute. For more detailed information, refer to www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit

Certificate of Completion in Media Studies

The Certificate of Completion in Media Studies has been administratively suspended, pending review. New students cannot currently enroll in workshops to complete this Certificate of Completion.

The Certificate of Completion in Media Skills offers students in an ICCIT program the opportunity to refine and build their connections with media concepts, technologies, ideas, industries, peers, mentor, and community outside of the formal classroom. Through a series of self-curated workshops, students will direct their own learning and engage with their community in unique ways. Workshops will enrich classroom learning by providing students with active learning opportunities to hone and practice technical skills; learn about professional and industry application; hear from industry leaders and experts as well as ICCIT faculty and alumni; and network with their peers and mentors.


Students currently registered in any ICCIT program (i.e. DEM Specialist, CCIT Major, TCS Major, PWC Major and Minor) are eligible to participate in these workshops and earn the Certificate of Completion in Media Skills. ICCIT students will automatically have access to the ICCIT Media Skills Workshop Quercus where they can explore the current roster of available workshops and register for those that fit best with their personal interests as well as personal and professional goals. Completion of a minimum of ten (10) workshops will earn students the Certificate of Completion in Media Skills.

The Certificate of Completion in Media Skills is an optional certificate that students may choose to complete in combination with their ICCIT program/ subject post. Students may also register and attend standalone Media Skills workshops without completing the Certificate of Completion in Media Skills. Students are also eligible to complete both this Certificate of Completion in Media Skills and the Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication and Technology (also offered through ICCIT).

Laptop Requirement

Delivering rich and meaningful educational experiences is at the forefront of ICCIT’s teaching efforts.

To facilitate this end, students accepted into ICCIT's CCIT, DEM and TCS programs are expected to have a laptop with the recommended minimum technical requirements to support industry-standard software, including the Adobe Creative Cloud. For more detailed information, refer to https://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit/programs/communication-culture-information-technology-ccit/technical-requirements.

Contact:
ICCIT Advising
E-Mail: iccit.advising@utoronto.ca

Students should also review the Degree Requirements section prior to selecting courses

Program website: http://www.utm.utoronto.ca/iccit

Communication, Culture, Information and Technology Programs

Digital Enterprise Management - Specialist (Arts)

Digital Enterprise Management - Specialist (Arts)

Digital Enterprise Management (DEM) is a specialist program, providing students with the skills and knowledge for utilizing digital technologies to solve business management and organizational problems in creative and innovative ways. Students study, build, and critically analyze enterprise-grade emerging technologies in addition to studying the traditional managerial fields such as finance, law, economics, organizational studies, risk management, design, and project management. Understanding the challenges and demands of managing organizations that use and/or develop digital technologies will prepare students for both traditional and digital enterprises.


Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Admission is based on academic performance (CGPA) in a minimum of 4.0 credits that must include a minimum grade of 65% in each of CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT112H5. Each year the ICCIT program sets a minimum required CGPA. This will vary from year to year and is based, in part, on supply and demand. All students (including transfer students) must complete 4.0 U of T credits before requesting this program.

Courses completed as CR/NCR will not count as part of the 4.0 credits required for program entry. Tuition fees for students enrolling in the DEM Specialist Program will be higher than for other Arts and Science Programs.



Completion Requirements:

13.5 credits are required.

First Year: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT112H5

Second Year:

Higher Years:

  1. CCT321H5 and CCT324H5 and ( CCT328H5 or MGD428H5) and ( CCT325H5 or MGD425H5) and CCT354H5 and CCT355H5 and CCT361H5
  2. CCT424H5 and CCT461H5 and MGD421H5 and MGD426H5
  3. 1.0 credit from CCT401H5 or CCT410H5 or CCT476H5 or MGD415H5 or MGD427H5.
  4. 2.0 credits of CCT or MGD at the 300- or 400-level. Cannot include any courses already used above.

Notes:

  1. Students cannot combine the Digital Enterprise Management Program with the CCIT Major program, or the Management Major Program or the Commerce Major program or Technology, Coding and Society major program.
  2. Students are encouraged to review CCT 300 and 400 level elective courses in advance, and take necessary 200 level CCT courses to meet prerequisites in higher years.
  3. Student who cannot complete CCT219H5, due to exclusion with ECO100Y5 or ECO101H5 or ECO102H5, will need to take 0.5 credit from any 200-level or higher CCT or MGD course in its place.

ERSPE1307

CCIT - Major (Arts)

CCIT - Major (Arts)

Communication, Culture Information & Technology (CCIT) is an undergraduate interdisciplinary major program, the curriculum for which provides students with a foundation in the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of communication and digital media using appropriate methodologies. CCIT provides students the opportunity to design a range of communication media and digital artifacts suitable for collaboration, communication, learning, and exploration.

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Admission is based on academic performance (CGPA) in a minimum of 4.0 credits that must include a minimum grade of 65% in each of CCT109H5 and CCT110H5. Each year the ICCIT program sets a minimum required CGPA. This will vary from year to year and is based, in part, on supply and demand. All students (including transfer students) must complete 4.0 U of T credits before requesting this program.

Courses with a grade of CR/NCR will not count as part of the 4.0 credits required for program entry. Tuition fees for students enrolling in the CCIT Major program will be higher than for other Arts and Science programs.

Completion Requirements:

8.0 credits are required including at least 4.0 at the 300/400 level. Program must be taken in combination with another major or two minors.

First Year: (1.0 credit required)

CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Second Year: (3.0 credits required)

  1. CCT204H5 and CCT208H5 and CCT218H5
  2. 0.5 credit from CCT200H5 or CCT206H5 or CCT210H5 or CCT222H5
  3. 0.5 credit from CCT205H5 or CCT212H5 or CCT260H5
  4. 0.5 credit from any 200-level CCT course

Higher Years: (4.0 credits required)

Minimum of 4.0 credits from any 300/400 level CCT/VCC courses, of which 1.0 credit must be at the 400 level.

NOTES:

  1. All 200-level and higher CCT courses are restricted to students in CCIT programs.
  2. Students may take a maximum of 2.0 credits of VCC courses.
  3. Students accepted into the CCT major prior to 2022 are still eligible to complete the Sheridan Certificate until 2024.

ERMAJ1034

Professional Writing and Communication - Major (Arts)

Professional Writing and Communication - Major (Arts)

Professional Writing and Communication (PWC) program aims to produce critical thinkers and flexible, reflective writers and editors who apply their knowledge of language across a range of academic disciplines and professional practices. PWC students transform complex ideas into engaging and exciting writing for a diversity of audiences across multiple platforms. Through intensive training in writing and editing processes, graduates harness the power of narrative to research, write and publish original work.

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Enrolment in this program is limited. 4.0 credits are required, including the following:

  1. CCT109H5 (with a minimum grade of 65%);
  2. CCT110H5 (with a minimum grade of 65%);
  3. WRI173H5 (with a minimum grade of 65%); and
  4. A minimum CGPA (see note below).

NOTES:

  1. The minimum CGPA and grade(s) required for program entry are determined annually based on demand. It is, however, never below the stated minimums above.
  2. All students (including transfer students) must complete 4.0 U of T credits before requesting this program.
  3. Courses completed as CR/NCR will not be counted as part of the 4.0 credits required for program entry.

Completion Requirements:

8.0 credits are required.

First Year:

  1. CCT109H5
  2. CCT110H5
  3. WRI173H5 or WRI203H5

Second Year:

  1. WRI273H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5
  2. 0.5 credit from any 200-level WRI course

Higher Years:

5.5 credits from any 300 or 400 level WRI courses, including the options of CCT417H5 or CCT454H5. 0.5 credit must be at the 400-level.


ERMAJ1302

Technology, Coding & Society - Major (Arts)

Technology, Coding & Society - Major (Arts)

The Technology, Coding, and Society (TCS) major program focuses on the impact of technologies, including hardware, platform and associated software, on people and on society more generally. Students learn essential computer coding skills, are taught theories on the use of digital platforms from humanistic and social science perspectives, learn to analyze the data that digital platforms produce, and then apply these concepts through practical labs and through optional work-integrated learning opportunities. Since the TCS Major is within the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), students can concurrently obtain a Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication, and Technology from ICCIT.

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Admission is based on academic performance (CGPA) in a minimum of 4.0 credits that must include a minimum grade of 65% in each of CCT109H5, CCT110H5 and CCT111H5. Enrolment in this program is determined annually and is limited to students who have a CGPA of at least 2.4. Tuition fees for students enrolling in any CCIT Specialist/Major programs will be higher than for other Arts and Science programs.

Completion Requirements:

8.0 credits are required including at least 3.5 at the 300/400 level. Program must be taken in
combination with another major or two minors.

First Year: (1.5 credits required)

Second Year: (3.0 credits required)

Third and Higher Years: (3.5 credits required)


Note:

1. 300/400-level CCT courses are restricted to students in ICCIT programs only.
2. It is your responsibility to ensure that the prerequisites for courses listed in the calendar have been met. Students without the prerequisites can be removed at any time. No waivers will be granted.


ERMAJ1040

Professional Writing and Communication - Minor (Arts)

Professional Writing and Communication - Minor (Arts)

Professional Writing and Communication (PWC) program aims to produce critical thinkers and flexible, reflective writers and editors who apply their knowledge of language across a range of academic disciplines and professional practices. PWC students transform complex ideas into engaging and exciting writing for a diversity of audiences across multiple platforms. Through intensive training in writing and editing processes, graduates harness the power of narrative to research, write and publish original work.

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment — Enrolment in this program is limited. 4.0 credits are required, including the following:

  1. WRI173H5 (with a minimum grade of 65%); and
  2. A minimum CGPA (see note below).

NOTES:

  1. The minimum CGPA required for program entry is determined annually based on demand.
  2. All students (including transfer students) must complete 4.0 UofT credits before requesting this program.
  3. Courses completed as CR/NCR will not be counted as part of the 4.0 credits required for program entry.

Completion Requirements:

4.0 credits are required.

First & Second Years:

  1. First Year: WRI173H5 (0.5 credit)
  2. Second Year: A minimum of 0.5 WRI credit at the 200-level

Third & Fourth Years: 3.0 WRI credits at the 300- or 400-level with a minimum of 0.5 credit at the 400-level.


Note:

Students are encouraged to review 300 and 400-level WRI courses in advance, and take necessary 200-level WRI courses to meet prerequisites in higher years.


ERMIN1302

Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication and Technology

Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication and Technology

The Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication and Technology program provides eligible students the opportunity to integrate work placements into their ICCIT program of study. The certificate offers students authentic learning experiences outside the classroom that involve the application of skills and concepts learned in the classroom through a 12-16 week non-credit paid work term and a course-based internship. This certificate program must be taken in addition to any of the current ICCIT programs.

Students enrolled in the certificate program also complete two professional practice courses in class (1.0 credit), CCT273H5 Professional Practice and Communication, and CCT373H5 Career Planning and Development, as well as 0.5 credit from CCT409H5 Special Topics in Work-Based Learning or CCT410H5 CCIT Internship I or WRI410H5 Internship I that count toward their program requirements.

Students will be eligible to apply for this certificate program at the end of their second year of study. Requests to enrol in this certificate program subject post will only be assessed through the Spring term via Acorn with notification of acceptance/invitations made available in the Summer.

Students will be awarded the certificate via a transcript notation upon successful completion of the four required courses and one 12-16 week full-time work placement.

Enrolment Requirements:

Limited Enrolment: Enrolment in the Certificate Program in ICCIT is limited to students who have met the following criteria:

1. Concurrently enrolled in one of the following ICCIT programs:

  • Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (CCIT) Major;
  • Professional Writing & Communication (PWC) Major;
  • Digital Enterprise Management (DEM) Specialist;
  • Technology, Coding and Society (TCS) Major.

2. Have completed CCT110H5 Rhetoric and Media or WRI173H5 Creative Non-Fiction or WRI203H5 Expressive Writing.

3. Have completed CCT273H5 Professional Practice and Communication with a minimum course grade of 70%.

4. Have achieved an overall minimum CGPA of 2.5. The CGPA requirement for entry will be set each year in relation to the number of applicants, with the minimum being 2.5.

Completion Requirements:

2.0 credits and one 12-16 week full-time work placement.

Required courses:

  1. CCT110H5 or WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
  2. CCT273H5 and CCT373H5
  3. CCT409H5 or CCT410H5 or WRI410H5

ERCER1033

Communication, Culture, Information and Technology Courses

CCT109H5 • Contemporary Communication Technologies

This course examines different information and communication technologies (ICTs) through the analysis of such genres as contemporary written, visual, oral, electronic and musical forms. It illustrates a range of theoretical perspectives that seek to explain the relationship between communication and technology. This course will also examine, briefly, the history of ICTs.


Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT110H5 • Rhetoric and Media

This course critically examines the written, visual, aural, and dynamic rhetoric as it pertains to communications for academic and other purposes across a range of digital and interactive media discourses.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT111H5 • Critical Coding

This experiential learning course introduces students to the practice and theory of coding, programming, and basic development of user-oriented software. The lectures illustrate a core range of software development concepts that provide the foundations needed for the practical coding of front-end applications such as mobile interfaces or of back-end software such as introductory artificial intelligence or social media analysis. The practicals are lab-based and focus on applying these theoretical skills to solving problems grounded in a critical understanding of the interaction between people, culture, and society, by developing software or apps in languages such as Java, Objective C, Swift, Python.

Corequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT112H5 • Foundations of Management

This course introduces students to the foundational principles and analytical tools from the management discipline in link with today’s economic and technological advancements. Particular emphasis is given to the interconnections between information and communications technologies, innovation, the role of managers and their decision-making processes, and related social, cultural, and economic institutions.


Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT200H5 • Race, Media and Culture

This course provides an introduction to the intersecting fields of critical race, media, and cultural studies. We will pay particular attention to dynamics of social difference and power and the communication strategies and technologies through which these are navigated, reproduced and interrupted. Students will be introduced to critical and analytical tools for understanding the cultural and media circulation, regulation and reimagination of things like race, sexuality, time, gender, class, indigeneity, space, ethnicity, ability and nationality. These critical tools equip students with the skills to write, design and build ethical innovations in new media and culture.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT202H5 • Human-Machine Communication

From voice responsive cars and virtual assistants to social robots and smart toys, people are increasingly interacting with communicative technologies in their daily lives. In this course students will consider the implications of this evolution in communication practice – informing design, ethics, efficacy, privacy, and other implications. Human-machine communication is a specific area of study within communication encompassing human-computer interaction, human-robot interaction, and human-agent interaction.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT203H5 • Business Research Methods

This course provides an introduction to research design, conduct, and analysis for making informed business decisions. The course will focus on basic methodologies, qualitative and quantitative methods, data sources, reliability, validity, and other measurement issues, data collection and research design, ethics in research, and report writing and presentation.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5
Exclusions: CCT208H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT204H5 • Design Thinking I

An introduction to the basic concepts and skills of design thinking as an interdisciplinary subject. Emphasizes creative and critical thinking in the design process; provides the student with the theory and operational skills necessary to solve design problems in the realms of symbolic and visual communication, material objects, environments, and organized services and activities.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT205H5 • Digital Innovation and Cultural Transformation

This course examines a range of theoretical perspectives and worldviews that assess the cultural and social changes brought about by modern technology. These perspectives will be used to analyze the potential problems initiated by the introduction of digital and computing technologies to various contexts. Possible topics include: cybernetics; media convergence; artificial intelligence/life; smart technology; digital environmentalism and digital warfare.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT206H5 • Law, Technology and Culture

This course will provide a detailed review of copyright, trademark and patent law with a special emphasis on how they apply to digital media. This course will also review the law of contract as it applies to digital industries and investigate the relevant tort law. In addition, other regulatory issues will be discussed such as telecommunications and broadcasting law both from a Canadian and an international perspective.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT208H5 • Communications Research Methods

This course is a survey of research methodologies in the field of communication and media. A central goal of the course is to train students how to critically assess methods commonly used in social science research. Students will also become familiar with how to properly collect and interpret quantitative and qualitative social science research data.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5
Exclusions: CCT203H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/8T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT210H5 • Signs, Referents, and Meaning

How written or spoken statements, gestures, and aesthetic objects come to have meanings. How we recognize and fail to recognize such meanings. The nature, systems, and processes of interpretation. The role of mental models.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5
Exclusions: CCT213H5 or VIC223YI

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT211H5 • Fundamentals of User Interface Programming

This experiential learning course introduces students to the practice and theory of coding, programming, and development of user interfaces. The lectures illustrate an advanced range of software development concepts needed for the practical coding of user interfaces across a variety of devices. The practicals are lab-based and focus on applying these theoretical skills to design, implementation, and testing of user interface software components. Students will have the opportunity to acquire project management and software engineering skills Scrum, Agile), programming languages (Java, Javascript, Objective C, Swift, and other mobile and web programming languages), and evaluation methodologies (unit testing, bug tracking).

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT111H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT212H5 • Hacker Culture

By subverting and re-appropriating technologies, hackers influence both the evolution of computing and the politics of digital media. Hacking contributes to shaping the future of entrepreneurship, free speech, surveillance, and intellectual property. The course will examine the cultural, social, and legal facets of hacking in fields ranging from software production to political activism and the hacker underground. It will be based on social science research on hackers as well as concrete examples of data re-appropriation and technology modification.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT218H5 • Foundations of Media and Technology Studies

An introduction to foundational theories for studying the relationship between media, technology and society. The course presents technology as a social practice and considers a wide variety of concepts and methods for studying its cultural and political significance.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT219H5 • Media Economics I

This course presents economic principles that explain how markets help organize exchange and production among competing but nevertheless cooperating economic units. Theories of consumer demand, the economic nature and function of business firms, optimal business decision rules of monopoly, oligopoly, and anti-combines regulations, as well as game theory, are presented. Efficiency criteria pertaining to the operation of firms and markets, the role of property rights, and the scope for public policy, are also examined.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT112H5
Exclusions: CCT319H5 or ECO100Y5 or (ECO101H5 or ECO102H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT221H5 • Digital Marketing I (DEM)

Techniques for developing a comprehensive marketing strategy will be developed with particular emphasis on digital products and services. The nature of digital markets, approaches to advertising, pricing and such areas as versioning will also be discussed.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT112H5
Exclusions: CCT322H5 or MGT252H5 or MGT352H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT222H5 • Political Economy of Communication, Culture, and Technology

The course analyzes the relationship between media systems, communication technologies, and power. As an introduction to a political economy approach, this course surveys how media, culture, information and technologies are produced, circulated, and consumed, with attention to both historical developments and contemporary practices in the digital era. The course provides a basic understanding of media systems, technologies, and culture production in relation to the market, the state, and civil society. Students will develop a basic understanding of the political, economic, cultural, and regulatory environment in which media, culture, and technologies are produced, and pay particular attention to the implications of processes such as globalization, digitization, marketization, and commodification for social life.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT224H5 • Organizational Studies I

This course provides a comprehensive overview of the activities and processes that take place in organizations. Major emphasis is placed on the investigation of the varied measures that can be developed to assess and subsequently improve the performance of the organization. The interpretation of measures in managerial decision-making will also be investigated in detail.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT225H5 • Information Systems

This course has been designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the role of computers and communication systems in modern organizations. Unlike programming courses, the focus here is on the application of computer-based systems to support information requirements for problem solving and managerial decision-making. Topics include concepts of information, humans as information processors, survey of hardware and software applications, introduction to information systems analysis and design.

Prerequisites: CCT224H5
Exclusions: MGM371H5 or MGT371H5 or RSM327H1 or MGAC70H3

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT226H5 • Data Analysis I

This course introduces students to the basic tools of data analysis, most particularly statistics and modeling that are critical for subsequent courses in Marketing and Data Analysis II. Students are introduced to basic principles of descriptive and inferential statistics with a focus on the types of data that they will typically encounter in a digital environment.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT112H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT250H5 • Technology and Creative Expression

Advances in technology have provided users ready access to empowering technologies of creative expression. This emergence of prosumer and amateur production technology has both destabilized and revolutionized established practice in digital imaging, time based media, gaming, and design. This course provides a survey of contemporary theories, technologies and critical challenges in a variety of media of creative expression.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT260H5 • Web Development and Design I

This course will explore foundational techniques of web development and design in the context of human-centred technologies, and design of experiences, interfaces and interactions. Topics include development of semantic web properties using contemporary programming techniques; standards-based design of responsive accessible systems; and production of rich media for online displays.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT261H5 • Speculative Design I

This introductory course in information architecture is a foundation of user interface design. Information architects work in organizations to design interfaces that enable users to find and navigate complex data via technology. Using architectural and design concepts to create and organize user-friendly information structures, this course includes exploring theories and hands-on practice with information organization, structure, categorization, representation, navigation and modeling.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT270H5 • Principles in Game Design

This course will address the principles and methodologies behind the rules and play of games. It will foster a solid understanding of how games function to create experiences, including rule design, play mechanics, game balancing and the integration of visual, tactile, audio, and textual components into games.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and (CCT110H5 or ENG110H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT273H5 • Professional Practice and Communication

This professional practice course provides students with basic skills in professional communication, acumen, and problem solving that will help them develop personally and professionally.

Prerequisites: 70% in CCT110H5 or (WRI173H5 or WRI203H5).

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT285H5 • Immersive Environment Design

Students will develop skills in the areas of bitmap/vector graphics, audio/visual production and editing, 2D/3D modeling and animation, and video game design. Students will produce immersive environments while addressing and engaging issues of remix culture and intellectual property.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and (CCT110H5 or ENG110H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT286H5 • Interactive Media Design

This course provides students with the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to produce responsive web content. Students will develop skills in the areas of website design, interactive and animated web content, mobile app development, and mobile game development.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and (CCT110H5 or ENG110H5) and CCT285H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT295H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

An in depth examination of selected topics in communication, culture, information and technology. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT300H5 • Critical Analysis of Media

This course offers an overview of critical theoretical concepts and applies them to contemporary media. Students will use concepts from social theory, media studies and technology studies to critically analyze the many facets of the evolution and pervasiveness of digital media.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5 or CCT218H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT301H5 • Design for Online Cultures

This course builds upon the concepts introduced in CCT218H5, Introduction to Digital Culture, through an exploration of the design and development of online information services (e.g. websites, digital libraries). It examines the standards, modeling approaches, and methods for testing. Students will experiment with different approaches to design of websites or other online services for different types of delivery devices (e.g. desktops, mobiles).

Prerequisites: CCT218H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT302H5 • Developing and Managing Communication Campaigns and Projects

Communication campaigns and projects, whether they involve marketing, politics, or advertising require the establishment of objectives, tasks, and milestones. Furthermore developing and managing campaigns requires the development of knowledge and skills relating to the management of teams. Students will acquire analytic skills allowing them to understand the development and management of communication campaigns and projects. Current theory and research will comprise an integral part of the course as will study of the appropriate software tools. A significant component of the assessment for this course will be a group project that will involve the design of a communication campaign or project which will be presented to a group of experts.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits.

Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT303H5 • Communicating In and Between Organizations

This course examines the nature of communications in organizations. Communications are the glue that holds organizations together. Understanding theoretically and practically the multi-faceted functions of communication in and between organizations is essential for anyone seeking to develop a career in an organization whether it be private or public. Students will acquire analytic skills allowing them to understand organizational communication from a variety of different perspectives. They will also be required to develop and actively critique practical examples of organizational communication.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5 or CCT218H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT304H5 • Visual Communication and Digital Environments

This is a project-based course that focuses on analyzing and evaluating the persuasive impact of the images we use every day to make decisions about our social networks, what we buy, how we live, what we care about, and who we are. Students will learn about rhetorical devices used in visual communications and then work in teams to create a persuasive awareness campaign for an NGO, Government Agency, Healthcare organization or other social interest group as the final project.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5

Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/8T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT305H5 • Design and Implementation of Multimedia Documents

The principles and techniques of user-centered, functional design are introduced and applied to the analysis of software interfaces and the creation of multimedia documents. The roles of shared metaphors and mental models in clear, concise and usable designs are emphasized. Students will produce multimedia documents, which make effective use of text, colour, user input, audio, still, and time-based images.

Prerequisites: CCT204H5 or CCT250H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT306H5 • Interpersonal Communication

An introduction to the cognitive, social, dyadic and group factors that shape communication and relational development between people. The objective of this course is for students to learn and apply the communication processes involved in encoding and decoding messages that help us understand others around us. Students will learn concepts, theories, and skills related to interpersonal communication. Topics include impression management, interpersonal influence, relational development, and conversational skills.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT307H5 • Critical Infrastructure Studies

This course explores how infrastructures shape society, culture, and understanding of the human condition. We examine different infrastructures from electric networks to communication networks, data farms, environmental sensing systems, smart cities, and satellite technologies and our reliance on them. We will also examine how these infrastructures are sustained and maintained. By building on critical theories and approaches to infrastructures and their impact, the course investigates the power of infrastructure to establish the conditions of our daily lives.

Prerequisites: CCT218H5
Exclusions: CCT207H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT308H5 • Advanced Research Methodologies

This course provides students with an in-depth study and critical analysis of research methodologies within the discipline of communications and new media. Students will learn to explicitly identify generalizable findings, ethical concerns, study limitations, and new contributions to the field of knowledge using existing studies in qualitative, quantitative and mixed methodologies. Students will also gain experience in identifying and assessing problems within a research design and develop the ability to recommend revisions and/or new contexts and techniques for replicating the studies.

Prerequisites: CCT203H5 or CCT208H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT310H5 • Popular Culture and Society

How does consumerism affect symbolic production, circulation and transactions? Major modern theories of mass communication will be presented (Fiske, Bourdieu, Benjamin, Jenkins, Frankfurt school, and Marxist approaches). Students will explore new structures of mass communication in relation to popular culture systems, and their economic, technological and institutional dimensions. Topics include Disney, Hollywood, celebrity culture, social media, and user generated content in digital environments.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT311H5 • Game Design and Theory

This course provides an introduction to games studies. It reviews the history of games, from board and card games through to the latest digital games. It enables students to understand the medium of games through various lenses such as critical theory and ethnography. Students are introduced to the concepts of game narrative, the influence of technology in digital games, and the emergence of game paradigms such as casual games, serious games, game ‘modding’, and subversive play.

Prerequisites: CCT270H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT312H5 • Interactive Story Telling for Game Development

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course will address traditional storytelling and the challenges of interactive narrative. Students will develop a solid understanding of traditional narrative theory as well as experimental approaches to storytelling in literature, theatre and film with relevance to game development.

Prerequisites: CCT270H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT314H5 • Mind, Media and Representation

This course applies a variety of theoretical and practical approaches to consider the multiple and often conflicting ways representations in media are produced and consumed. The study of representations is approached from the perspective that they are best understood as both discursive and ideological. Questions to be examined include: What does it mean for historical and contemporary representations to carry economic, ideological and discursive power? To what extent do audiences hold power to resist or negotiate with representations? How might we interrogate the notion that we live in a post-feminist, post-racialized society in which older ideas about gender, race and power no longer apply or need re-thinking?

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT316H5 • Communication and Advertising

A study of theories in communication and meaning with different reference to advertising, advertising messages, and advertising management.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT317H5 • Creative and Experimental Coding

This course will instruct students in the use of programming languages such as Python or Processing for novel applications, including cases from animation, design, and information visualization. Appropriate use of code libraries, platforms and programming techniques will be developed. Assessment will be based on both programming and the expressive use of programs in their case context.

Prerequisites: CCT211H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT318H5 • Sustainability and the Digital Enterprise

This course focuses on investigating the impacts of the digital enterprise on sustainability. The course presents an overview of the sustainability challenges and the concrete approaches to solving those challenges with the use of technology. The course uses an active learning approach allowing students the opportunity to learn while working on different sustainability projects linked to digital enterprises.

Prerequisites: Minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT112H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT320H5 • Communication, Technology, and Social Change

This course explores how media and media technology have shifted the nature of existing political and social orders. We will focus on how social movements and political change engage media and technology to disrupt social norms and practices that perpetuate inequality. This will bring us in contact with theories of social movement mobilization, political communication, and digital media. We may also explore the ways that legacy and digital media have changed to be in service of misinformation and state repression.

Prerequisites: CCT212H5 or CCT218H5 or CCT222H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: Online, In Class

CCT321H5 • Introduction to Finance

This course will provide students with an understanding of investment appraisal from a financial standpoint. It will provide them with the necessary tools to construct the financial component of a business plan and analyze the financial performance of a company. It will examine the practical problems of capital budgeting and highlight the techniques of performing ongoing monitoring of a company's financial health and risks.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and (CCT219H5 or CCT319H5) and CCT224H5
Exclusions: MGM230H5 or MGT230H5 or MGT331Y1 or MGT337Y5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT324H5 • Organizational Studies II

Overview of individual and group behaviour in organizations, including motivation, communication, decision making, influence and group dynamics. Examination of major aspects of organizational design including structure, environment, technology, goals, size, inter-organizational relationships, innovation and change.

Prerequisites: CCT224H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT325H5 • Media Economics II

This course explores macroeconomics through the analysis of national and international crises. The course begins with a discussion of the nature of economics, a brief examination of markets, and a discussion of crisis and growth. We survey the institutions and dynamics of growth in the post WWII period, their breakdown in the 1960s and the spread of international crisis in the 1970s, and the crises of various economic policy responses from the 1980s to the present. After this historical overview, we explore macroeconomic theory and its development over the last 50 years. We study the Keynesian model and its emphasis on employment and output, its crisis in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the rise of monetarist alternatives, the elaboration of aggregate supply and demand models highlighting prices instead of employment, the surge of supply-side and rational expectations economics during the Reagan administration and the continuing debates among economists over the merits and problems of the various theoretical approaches. The course closes with an examination the various forms of crises tied to the emergence of information and communications technologies and the knowledge economy.

Prerequisites: CCT219H5 or CCT319H5 or ECO100Y5 or (ECO101H5 or ECO102H5).
Exclusions: MGD425H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT328H5 • Project Management

Approaches to the management of complex technical projects will be investigated. Topics include project estimating, costing and evaluation, organizing and managing project teams, quantitative methods for project planning and scheduling, introduction to computer-based project management tools. The course may involve an applied field project.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits.
Exclusions: MGD428H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT331H5 • Social Media and Society

This course introduces students to critical approaches to social media drawing from theories and fields including software studies, platform studies, critical theory and political economy. The course provides students with tools and theories to analyze and understand current social media connectivity, and how social media platforms function as socio-cultural systems.

Prerequisites: CCT218H5 or CCT222H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT332H5 • Canadian Communication Policy

This course examines the policy and regulatory frameworks that shape media, culture, and technology in Canada. The course surveys the historical development of communication policy in Canada, broadly understood, and introduces students to issues and debates in the development of communication policy for specific sectors such as broadcasting, creative industries, platforms, and the internet.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT333H5 • Social Innovation

This course introduces students to the strategies and processes of social innovation through usability studies, systems analysis, and artifact prototyping for new products or services for underserved groups. Students will learn various techniques of understanding user needs requirements and design methodologies, and apply this knowledge to create socially innovative prototypes to apply to real world situations. By the end of this course, students will have worked in groups to develop design alternatives for a technological artifact or system of their choosing, gain knowledge of human-centred design strategies and learn how to become change agents through case studies, best practice analyses, and relevant readings.

Prerequisites: CCT250H5

Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT334H5 • History and Theory of Game Production

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course will examine the principles, theory and practice behind the production of games. By examining the history and contributions of early founders such as Atari and Activision, all the way to present-day leaders such as Electronic Arts and Sony, students will gain an understanding of how the global video game industry operates. The lectures and practical work will foster an approach to the understanding of game production issues including technology, law, marketplace and audience demand.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT335H5 • Technology and the City

Technology continues to reshape the physical contours of our built environments as much as it redefines our conceptualization of how we inhabit and interact within them. This course investigates how urban form, space, infrastructure and communication are mediated by new and evolving technologies.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/11T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT336H5 • Comics and Digital Culture

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) Examining the medium of comics and graphic novels and its evolution in an era of digital production and dissemination. Starting from a foundational understanding of the visual grammar of comics, students create their own graphic narratives and later explore the dynamics of digital dissemination by creating viral and memetic content for an Internet audience.


Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT340H5 • Gender, Media and Technology

This course brings a gendered lens to the study of media and technology. The course explores the (re)production and (re)presentation of gender through communicative practices in a variety of mediums, including print media, TV, activist media, video games and online platforms. The course develops an understanding of gender ideologies and how media, technologies, and communication help produce gender. The course examines the way gender identities are constructed by mainstream and alternative media; gendered divisions of media and digital labour; the relationship between ICTs and the performance of gender and sexuality; masculinities, gender politics; feminist theory; and the construction and negotiation of gender in relation to mediated environments.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and (CCT200H5 or CCT210H5 or CCT222H5 or WRI173H5 or WRI203H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT341H5 • Introduction to IT Consulting

Information Technology (IT) Consulting is a growing profession that embodies the use of computer-supported collaborative tools in the execution of business functions. In this course students engage with the principles of Computer Supported Co-operative Work (CSCW) through an experiential opportunity to work with a real client. Students create an IT Consulting company and take on the role of consultants, learning core skills (soft and hard) necessary for this profession, including client management, communication, ideation, analysis and solution development, project management, presentation skills, and web design. Using case studies we discuss consulting lessons learned and problems to avoid within the context of industry best practices.

Prerequisites: Minimum of 8.0 credits.

Course Experience: Partnership-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT351H5 • Theory and Practice of Animation

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course introduces the student to the history of animation from the earliest exploration of the animated image in the early 1900's to the most current computer, traditional and web-based practices. This course will focus on important stylistic, narrative and technological developments.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT352H5 • History and Practice of Design

This course examines the historical development of communication design from the industrial revolution to the present. The student will focus on the emergence of design practice and theory in changing economic, technological and social contexts.

Prerequisites: CCT204H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT353H5 • Digital Media: Video

This course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of producing narrative time based imagery within a digital environment. The conceptual and digital tools as well as workflows and delivery systems that have been developed to produce images will be explored.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 48P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT354H5 • Digital Marketing II

This course examines digital marketing strategies and the role of online and mobile advertising platforms. Students will explore how emerging technologies are used to facilitate B2B and B2C transactions. A number of domains will be covered (search, display, programmatic trading, mobile, social, etc.) to give students a comprehensive understanding of both existing marketing strategies and emerging trends. This class will emphasize the strengths and weaknesses of various approaches to digital marketing while helping students develop a greater understanding of the different elements of marketing campaigns from formulation and implementation to integration and assessment.

Prerequisites: CCT221H5 or CCT322H5
Exclusions: CCT356H5 or MGT414H5 (Winter 2022) or MGT450H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT355H5 • Critical Approaches to Innovation

This course provides students with a survey of critical theories appropriate to the study of technological innovation. Students will: 1) explore theories of the social, cultural, and ecological impacts of technological innovation; 2) apply these theoretical lenses to the study of trends in innovation; and 3) propose a product or approach to innovation using social, cultural, or ecological criteria.

Prerequisites: CCT224H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT356H5 • Online Advertising and Marketing

This course investigates the industrial practices and tools of effectively marketing and promoting goods and services online. Topics include analysis of contemporary online advertisement design, the effective use of social media technologies in product marketing, planning online campaigns that reinforce and complement existing marketing and advertising efforts, and understanding key metrics used to evaluate a campaign's effectiveness.

Prerequisites: CCT260H5
Exclusions: CCT354H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT357H5 • Digital Media: Photography

This course will explore the theoretical and practical aspects of producing theme based single and sequential imagery within a digital environment. We will explore the conceptual and digital tools as well as workflows and delivery systems that have been developed to produce images.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 48P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT360H5 • Web Development and Design II

This course will introduce advanced standards-based frameworks that support the development of responsive front-end systems. Key concepts covered in this course include the application of advanced markup and design strategies, scripting languages applied to dynamic interactions, frameworks and code version control, and foundations of server-side implementations.

Prerequisites: CCT260H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT361H5 • Speculative Design II

In this course students are introduced to programming languages regularly used in management operations. Students will learn what these languages are, when and why they are applied, and how to read and write basic scripting code. The goal of this course is to familiarize students with scripting so that they can communicate more effectively with programmers in business settings.

Prerequisites: CCT261H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT365H5 • Surveillance

From the Orwellian Big Brother to Foucault's panopticon, surveillance has become an everyday facet of modern life. From a surveillance studies perspective surveillance can be applied as a framework for understanding social, political, and technological interrelationships. This framework can help us study more effectively power, identity, persuasion, and control associated with the spread of Information Communication Technologies (ICT's). This course will introduce students to viewpoints, vision and visibility in surveillance studies. The class will look at a range of topics from information politics, identification, privacy, security, suspicion, social sorting, bodies, borders and biometrics to explore a range of perspectives under the surveillance studies umbrella. It will introduce students to key issues surrounding data, discrimination, and visibility in a global context to undercover the watched world.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and CCT206H5 or CCT222H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT371H5 • Sound as Media

Sound as Media will provide students with an immersive introduction to the field of sound studies. The course offers a counterpoint to surveys of visual media by exploring acoustic technologies in historical, cultural and spatial context. By considering examples such as the gramophone, public address system, boombox, and MP3 player as well as the theories that account for them, students will develop an understanding of media forms that engage the ear as well as the eye. They will in turn, have the opportunity to apply this understanding to the final project which will give them hands-on experience with creating a sound-based documentary.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 or CCT110H5 or CCT111H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT373H5 • Career Planning and Development

The transition from university studies to professional settings necessitates the articulation of how acquired skill sets, education, professional contacts, supporting resources, and related experiences connect to and influence career trajectories. To facilitate agility in navigating the ever-shifting global economy, within and outside of the classroom students are provided with a mixture of structured, self-directed, independent, and team activities that aid in the development and refinement of professional identities, community networks, communication approaches, and problem solving skills.

Prerequisites: CCT273H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT374H5 • Critical Histories of Information Technologies

The course approaches current information and communication technologies from critical and historical perspectives. It investigates the interests, motives and tactics of news media, pop culture producers, amateurs, universities, corporations, and governments in promoting, sustaining, and interpreting information and communication systems. It also asks how the focus will be on media and information technologies, more theoretical or methodological readings will necessarily cover other systems. Case studies may include investigations of orality, writing, the printing press, industrialized printing, and electronic media from the telegraph and the telephone to broadcasting and the internet.

Prerequisites: CCT218H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT380H5 • Human-Computer Interaction and Communication

The emphasis in this course will be on theoretical, methodological, and empirical issues in the study of Human-Computer Interaction. Intelligent interface designs, usability assessment, user modeling and the accessibility of the technology for the disabled are among the topics to be examined. Related behavioural investigations concerning the ease and efficiency of users' interactions with computerized environments will also be discussed.

Prerequisites: CCT109H5 and CCT110H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT381H5 • Media Audiences

Audiences are social constructions which must be imagined to be actualized. Beginning with an exploration of the nature and role of audiences from early 20th century media, students explore how audiences make meaning of popular media platforms today. How are audiences situated within media texts, what role does this play in how media is generated and circulated, and how do audiences both enact and resist media influence? Broadcast models, interactive models, audience reading, gender, culture, race, and audience feedback are investigated.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT382H5 • Prototyping Digital Games

This course explores the fundamentals of the process of game design through prototyping. It focuses on the contexts and components of game design, such as design iteration and user testing along relevant dimensions such as art style, narrative, and game balance. Students will be introduced to design across different genres and types of digital games, including games for education, serious games, indie, and AAA games. Working in collaborative groups, students will learn and practice the appropriate methodology to design game mechanics, characters, art assets and other appropriate deliverables in order to create a game or high-fidelity prototype.

Prerequisites: (CCT211H5 or CCT285H5) and CCT270H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT383H5 • The Interactive Society

This course introduces students to the theoretical and practical study of how interactive digital media and systems affect, influence and reshape our society and what does it mean to be a "user" in the information-centric society. It will expose students to specific theoretical issues such as privacy by design, usable privacy, marginalized and at-risk user groups, the digital divide, behavioural modification (persuasion) through new media, ICT4D (info tech for development) and empowerment/alienation through intelligent interactive systems. Focus will be on developing skills that will enable students to propose changes (design, policy, framework) to existing and future envisioned interactive technologies that address the issues analyzed.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT386H5 • Information Practice in Virtual Worlds: Exploration of Information Environments

Virtual environments, immersive 3D environments accessed via computers or virtual reality headsets, comprise a unique and futuristic communication environment. Virtual environments have the potential to support a wide variety of activities related to information creation, distribution, and reception and can support social, economic, and cultural causes. Compared to everyday information practices, however, those enacted in virtual worlds are uniquely characterized by multimodality, synchronicity, digital embodiment and geographic distribution of users. In this course, students engage in participatory learning in virtual environments, using avatars to assess how the world's technological and social affordances support and constrain information practices. Using theories of gaming, virtuality, and information lifecycles, students critically analyse how information is produced and used in these environments.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT390H5 • Digital Media and Communications Abroad

Students on International exchange programs are encouraged to seek out courses in digital media and technologies that enrich their learning within an international context. This course is intended as an opportunity for students to study global issues and contexts abroad that provide a comparator to the Canadian media and communications landscape.

Prerequisites: Permission of ICCIT Director.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT391H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) An in-depth examination of selected CCIT topics Topics will vary from year to year and the content in any given year depends on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT395H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology

An in-depth examination of selected topics in communication, culture and information technology. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 8.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program (ROP)

This course provides an opportunity for third or higher year students to assist with the research project of a professor in return for 399Y course credit. Students have an opportunity to become involved in original research and enhance their research skills. Based on the nature of the project, projects may satisfy the Humanities, Sciences or Social Sciences distribution requirement. Participating faculty members post their project description for the following summer and fall/winter session on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 10.0 credits or permission of instructor
Exclusions: CCT299Y5 or VCC399Y5

Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT400H5 • Advanced Project

Majors and specialists are given the opportunity to develop a critical perspective on selected issues in CCIT. Students design and implement an advanced project on a topic of interest by engaging with advanced readings. A central aim is to refine the skills in critical analysis and in oral and written communication.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT401H5 • Advanced Thesis Course

Students will carry out a research project on a topic of their choosing which is related to their specific program focus in Digital Enterprise Management. Students will meet as a group for selected seminars emphasizing advanced research skills and thesis writing. Students will develop a research proposal, conduct research, and produce a research paper.

Prerequisites: CCT203H5 or CCT208H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT402H5 • Creating, Protecting and Managing Digital Artifacts

Digital artifacts play an increasingly important role in our society. It is essential that in the digitization of these artifacts appropriate attention is paid to their representation, protection and management. Students will review the theories and practices of representation. They will investigate the technologies associated with the storage of digital artifacts as well as investigating appropriate legal perspectives. This varied knowledge will be integrated into a study of best practices in the management of digital artifacts.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits including CCT206H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT403H5 • Finance, Innovation and the Digital Firm

Students will learn about financial aspects of digital industries. They will gain knowledge about how financial and other incentives shape the decisions of agents in the digital marketplace. Such a knowledge helps to identify industry trends aiding their own decisions when participating in Internet related industries. Topics covered include online and traditional media industries, aspects of e-commerce and marketing, open source software and crowd-sourcing. A highly effective way to gain such knowledge is by covering a relevant topic in an academic essay. This way the students will also improve their writing skills, and learn better how to cover financial aspects of their chosen topic in a scholarly manner.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT404H5 • Remote Work, Technology and Collaboration

This project-based course aims to demonstrate how collaboration is a critical capability often overlooked. During the course students will integrate their learning and experience and first hand see how, in combination with collaboration it can lead to creatively solving problems in areas as varied as business, health care delivery, urban planning and development. In addition to lectures, students will have the benefit of a series of guest lecturers. A large, group based project will serve to integrate learning and allow students the benefit of experiential learning.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.
Recommended Preparation: CCT204H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT405H5 • Individual Project

A research project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. Students will carry out a research project on a selected topic related to CCIT. Students must obtain signed permission from the faculty member who they would like to have as their supervisor.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.
Exclusions: CCT401H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT406H5 • Capstone Design Project

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) An applied project-based capstone course in which groups will be paired with an identified client with real-life needs in digital media creation. Students will work in small cross-functional teams to develop and present proposals to client representatives and a panel of industry experts. Students will also be taught the arts of networking, proposal writing and project management.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits including CCT204H5 or CCT260H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT407Y5 • Advanced Field Experiences in CCIT

This course provides students the opportunity to test their skills, immerse themselves within a different cultural or social context and explore communication and technology issues through an intense field experience either in Canada or abroad. The type of field experience varies from year to year and some experiences may evolve through collaborations with other disciplines or through special industry projects. The advanced field experience may involve travel and participation in international conferences or other relevant activities. Students are responsible for travel expenses.

Prerequisites: Permission of the ICCIT Director.
Exclusions: CCT409H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT409H5 • Special Topics in Work-Based Learning

An advanced unpaid field placement working on specially designed projects that explore collaborative, collective and global approaches to practical knowledge application. The placements may include international internships, collaborative group internships and community-based initiatives. The projects may vary from year to year depending on the external partners. Students will engage with others in the course through an online class component and complete individual reports and critical evaluations of the work experience.

Prerequisites: A minimum 13.0 credits and CGPA of 2.5.
Exclusions: CCT410H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT410H5 • CCIT Internship I

This course is a practical internship and is available only upon application from students registered in the CCIT/DEM/TCS programs. Through a placement, students will apply the expertise in communication, culture, and information technology that they have gained through previous courses. Students must plan well in advance for the placement and work closely with the placement officer for CCIT to determine eligibility and suitability. A report and presentation will be required at the end of the placement. These, along with the employer's assessment, will provide the main part of the course mark.

Prerequisites: Completion of 13.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.5 and approval of the internship coordinator/instructor, and evidence of additional career development (e.g. workshops, networking events, and professional communication with faculty, librarians, staff, and peers).
Exclusions: CCT409H5 and WRI410H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 14S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT411H5 • CCIT Internship II

This course is a practical internship and is available upon application from students registered in any CCIT program who have completed CCT410H5. The course is intended for students who have the opportunity to continue their CCT410H5 internship for a second semester. A report and presentation will be required at the end of the placement. These, along with the employer's assessment, will provide the main part of the course mark.

Prerequisites: (Completion of 13.0 credits including CCT409H5 or CCT410H5 or WRI410H5) and minimum CGPA of 2.5 and permission of Internship Coordinator.
Exclusions: WRI411H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 12S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT412H5 • Self-Directed Research Project: Advanced Studio Practices

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course facilitates a student-led research project to be carried out under the supervision of a faculty member. This is an opportunity to develop a critical and practical perspective on selected issues and practices within CCIT. Students design and implement an advanced project on a topic of interest using advanced creative and critical production skills. The aim is to redefine and articulate critical ideas through the process of making creative work. Students must obtain signed permission from a potential supervising faculty member.

Prerequisites: 1.0 credit from CCT305H5 or CCT351H5 or CCT353H5 or CCT357H5 or CCT360H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT414H5 • Special Topics in Knowledge, Media and Design

An in-depth examination of selected topics in interactive digital media with emphasis on knowledge, media and design. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT416H5 • Social Data Analytics

This course highlights the research in analysis for social data and builds skills to undertake those analysis. It is a lab-intensive course intended to build up data analytic skills for novice and intermediate researchers. Students look at recent studies using "big data" which are primarily theoretical, including critiques of data analytics and concerns surrounding data ethics. Students learn a programming language -- Python -- and how to scrape social data, store and collect it, run basic statistics, generate visuals, and create a report based on a project of interest.

Prerequisites: CCT203H5 or CCT208H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT417H5 • Alternative Media

This course examines the history, politics and aesthetics of a range of alternative, underground and radical media, as well as their relation to mainstream media. Students will study and experiment with a range of alternative media, including zines, graffiti, hacking, and culture jamming, for example. Students will gain hands-on experience in the creation of alternative media.

Prerequisites: Minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT418H5 • Work, Media and Technology

The course analyses the political, historical, and technical relationships between media, technology, and work in contemporary capitalism. The course will examine the power and social relationships that structure work in contexts such as media, creative industries, and the platform or "gig" economy. The course will focus on critical theories of work and will engage with case studies of the intersection of work, media and technology. The aim of the course is to build a tool kit for encountering an increasingly casualized and digitally-mediated labour market.

Prerequisites: CCT222H5 or CCT319H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT419H5 • User Experience Design - UXD and Board Games

This course allows students to explore issues related to user interface, user experience, materiality, gamification and game theory. Board games represent a space to consider social interaction, the use of materials, the role of emotion in design (UX), knowledge sharing and the role gamification plays in influencing behaviour. Students will be exposed to professional and research publications related to design, game theory, user experience and game mechanics.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT420H5 • Information Technology and Globalization

The variety of ways in which various information technologies influence and are influenced by globalization will be critically examined. The class will explore metaphors or ways of thinking about society and technology to critically examine the complex process and the diverse consequences of globalization. Topics may shift focus yearly but will include the economy, culture, politics, social movements, migration, social identity, war and global conflict, etc.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT423H5 • Game Development Project

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course will provide the opportunity to develop a practical understanding of the game development cycle. Students will design and develop an original game in support of a specific narrative, set of rules or play mechanics.

Prerequisites: CCT311H5 or CCT312H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities, Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT424H5 • Organizational Studies III

An in-depth study of the development of innovative strategies for organizations with an emphasis on digital enterprises. The nature of strategic innovation will be studied and a variety of analytic frameworks introduced. Concepts will be explored through a combination of lectures and case studies.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and (CCT219H5 or CCT319H5 or CCT321H5) and (CCT221H5 or CCT322H5) and CCT324H5.
Exclusions: MGT400H5 or MGM400H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT430H5 • Networked Life

The rise of information and communication technologies in contemporary societies has highlighted the interdependent nature of relationships; person-person, person-machine, machine-person, and machine-machine. Network analysis offers a point-of-view with which we can analyze networks to understand the roles of people and technology, identify the source of existing or potential issues, and the exchange of resources and information. This course applies network theory and methodology to examine how technology is used to maintain and build personal networks. It will further explore how personal networks intersect with larger institutional networks (e.g. corporations and universities) and informal networks (e.g. online communities and sports clubs). In the process, students will be guided in how to identify, measure, and collect data on selected networks, how to then analyze this data using a variety of analytic techniques.

Prerequisites: CCT203H5 or CCT208H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT431H5 • Drones, Robots, Artificial Intelligence

Drones, robots, and artificial intelligence are three interrelated technologies that are changing the most fundamental considerations of how society and sociality should operate. Work, war, consumption, and even love are being reconfigured. This course will address debates concerning the cultural, political, economic, military, and economic considerations surrounding the growing use of these technologies.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT432H5 • Ethics and Code

A self-driving car should always protect pedestrians, even if that implies serious threat for the vehicle's passengers. Current ethical challenges within our computational cultures has brought forward dilemmas involving code such as designing killer robots, the use of technology to predict and prevent crimes before they happen, and platform surveillance in social media. Students in this course will use theories and case based examples to examine questions such as what is meant with ethics in new media and critical computing, can we program computational systems according to ethical models, and does digital culture force us to rethink what ethics are?

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT433H5 • Sustainable Design

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course immerses students in sustainable design methodologies based upon whole systems analysis, applying the quadruple bottom line of people, profit, planet, and culture to understand and design for environmental issues and social change. During this course, students will apply the process and rhetoric of sustainable systems thinking to the re-design of an object or service applying such methodologies as cradle-to-cradle, 'design-for-environment', pricing based on full cost accounting, greening of the supply chain, and corporate responsibility. Throughout the course, students will examine the need for sustainable design through case studies, best practice analyses, and relevant readings

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 university credits including (CCT204H5 or CCT250H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT434H5 • Design Thinking II

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) An advanced project-based seminar on the art and creative directions of design thinking. Combining traditional and innovative creativity methods, a variety of design projects are conceptualized and drafted for proposal or implementation. This course embraces design thinking as a holistic, interdisciplinary approach that integrates methodical creativity and overarching design principles, such as aesthetics, futures-thinking, progress and metadesign.

Prerequisites: CCT204H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT435H5 • Media and Outer Space

Examines the relationship between media studies and Outer Space inhabitation and exploration. Through analysis of military, technological, industrial, scientific, design, artistic, and civilian projects, films, novels, science fictions, and other media forms, the class investigates and reveals the historical, social, cultural, and political implications of our mediated relation with Outer Space. Technologies and topics include: the space race and the Cold War, space imagery, extreme environments, space travel, space suits, space vehicles, and space habitats, satellites, extra-terrestrial intelligence, mining, extraction, terraforming, radiation, gravity, and levitation.


Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits
Exclusions: CCT495H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT440H5 • Power, Privilege and Technology

How is social inequality reproduced and encoded in technology systems and in digital media? In what ways do technology and media creations inform and influence perceptions, beliefs, and practices that impact girls and women, communities of colour, Indigenous groups, LGBTQ+ and other minoritized people? This course will address overlapping and intersectional issues of power, privilege, oppression, and sociotechnical imaginaries - all related to networks, big data and predictive analytics, algorithms, digital gig economies, and interactive multimedia like social media and virtual reality.

Prerequisites: CCT200H5 and CCT222H5
Exclusions: CCT395H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT448H5 • Game Design as Problem Solving

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) In this course, learners will identify and analyze the problems associated with game design such as The Door Problem and The Stamp Collecting Dilemma. Applying their own creativity and various schools of game theory such as Player-Centric Design, learners will prepare game mechanics that address and attempt to solve these problems.

Prerequisites: CCT311H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT449H5 • Immersive VR Journalism

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course focuses on creating digitally produced stories designed to provide a first-person, interactive experience with news events, animation and documentary film. 3D gaming, 3D drawing tools, and immersive technologies will be used to engage the audience member, creating a sense of 'presence'. Four theoretical domains will be discussed as part of a new narrative design framework foundational to Immersive VR Journalism: VR presence, narrative, cognition and journalistic ethics.

Prerequisites: CCT312H5 or CCT351H5 or CCT353H5 or CCT357H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT450H5 • Designing Interactive Books

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This advanced self-directed project-based course allows students who are already familiar with the principles of page layout and interactive multimedia to design and publish in iBooks. The principles and practice of creative concept development and art direction are actively applied. Students will develop original content in text, digital media, and engage in the creative application of iBooks Author's widgets as a writer, editor, illustrator, and designer. Balancing an industry-ready mindset with an avant-garde spirit, students are also encouraged to investigate this medium as an art form in alternative, experimental directions.

Prerequisites: CCT204H5 and CCT305H5 or permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT451H5 • Digital Media: Advanced Audio Production

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course explores how to design and produce a soundtrack for film or television. The foundations of technical theory and nomenclature will be provided, as well as aesthetic guidelines. Practical exercises will explore: voice recording, use of library sound effects, creative sound design, sound editing and processing technology and soundtrack mixing.

Prerequisites: CCT353H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT452H5 • Graphic Design and Popular Culture

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course will continue from where History and Practice of Design leaves off; from the beginning of the Post-Modern period or c.1975. It will study the history of graphic design to the present in roughly chronological order; it will focus on specific topics rather than on movements, schools or chronological events. Topics will highlight how social trends, political forces, technological innovation and continuing folk traditions all contribute to the visual environment we all inhabit today. Topics will emphasize popular culture as a force shaping graphic design while also referring to a theoretical graphic design discourse.

Prerequisites: CCT204H5 and CCT352H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT453H5 • Digital Media: Advanced Video Production

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course focuses on advanced theoretical and practical aspects of video production and editing. Storytelling techniques, the relationship of form to content, and montage strategies will be investigated. Over the course of the term students will work in teams to direct, film and edit video using digital technologies.

Prerequisites: CCT353H5

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 48P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT454H5 • Documentary Practices

This course explores the form and practice of documentary. Objectivity, ethics, censorship, representation, reflexivity, responsibility to the audience and authorial voice will be examined. Students will engage in practical engagement with documentary forms including the expanded field of documentary using tools such as photography, audio, video, 360 video, VR and new technologies.


Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Humanities
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT456H5 • Analysis and Visualization of Open Data

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course explores the open data/open government movement with the goal of understanding the promises and perils of the open data movement, better understanding what conclusions can and cannot be extrapolated from open data standards, using common visualization tools to make better sense of large open data sets, and concluding with a design competition where students build a prototype application that leverages open data sources to develop new services.

Prerequisites: CCT356H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT457H5 • Digital Media: Advanced Photography Production

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course focuses on advanced theoretical and practical aspects of digital image production and editing. Production techniques, professional practices and workflows, the relationship of form to content, and digital darkroom strategies will be investigated. Over the course of the term students will work individually and in teams to create and edit images using professional grade digital technologies.

Prerequisites: CCT357H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 48P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT460H5 • Advanced Web Design

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course builds on the client-side web development skill of the Intermediate Web Design courses by adding a server-side programming and database design component. Students will learn the theoretical and practical aspects of implementing a database including data modelling, development, communication and security. Additionally, server-side programming will be introduced as a means of communication and interaction between client-side web pages and database data, allowing students to develop a dynamic database driven website.

Prerequisites: CCT260H5 and CCT360H5
Recommended Preparation: Solid experience with static HTML is mandatory. Previous exposure to the logic of a programming language is advised.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT461H5 • Speculative Design III

Emerging technologies have the potential to transform business models and architectures. In this course students learn the functional and technical underpinnings of selected emerging technologies and critically analyse how these technologies are impacting business functions. Students also gain hands-on experience with emerging technologies and consider how they may be applied or adapted to solve management issues.

Prerequisites: CCT361H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT470H5 • Information Visualization

Visual literacy and the visualization of information are increasingly important competencies in a growing number of fields. This course will explore the history of visually representing information, consider issues related to data visualization and approaches to visually representing data. In addition, students will develop a better understanding of what visualization works best for various types of data, what makes for a strong visualization and the importance of narrative in the construction of graphic data representation.

Prerequisites: CCT210H5 and (CCT286H5 or CCT304H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT472H5 • Media Archaeology

This course examines media as technical objects with specific histories and a contemporary presence. In the contemporary context where media technologies are programmed to become obsolete, residual forms and practices provide materials traces for analysis. The class will focus on the evolution of media forms, looking particularly at early, antiquated, and obsolete practices and technologies of communication in order to recover their material traces, and to situate them in their historical, social, cultural, and political contexts. Through texts, archival materials, and case studies, old media will be brought back to life to question notions of authenticity, authority, preservation, archiving, temporality, agency, power, evolution, decay, and death.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits and 2.3 CGPA

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT473H5 • Career Strategies

In this course students will learn about various challenges that new graduates, future managers, and future executives will face in the workplace. Students will learn the theoretical as well as practical techniques that will help them succeed after graduating from their undergraduate programs.

Prerequisites: Minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT475H5 • Thesis in Integrated Learning in Digital Media, Communication, and Technology

This capstone project course carried out independently under the supervision of a faculty member requires students to reflect on the experiences they gained during their two work placements connected with the Professional Experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication, and Technology, and develop a comprehensive case study that integrates theories learned within ICCIT and their work placements. Students will be required to participate in one-on-one consultations with the course instructor.

Prerequisites: CCT273H5 and CCT373H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT476H5 • Foundations of Operations Management

Operations Management deals with the functions of an enterprise that create value for the customers. The scope of study covers all processes involved in the design, production and physical distribution of goods and services. With global competition continuously increasing, a firm's survival depends upon how well it integrates the operations function into the enterprise's general planning and strategy. It is thus essential for business managers to acquire an understanding and appreciation of operations.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits including CCT224H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT477H5 • UX Design - Understanding Users

The focus of the course is on understanding the experiences of users and their communities as affected by their interaction with digital technologies in information-centric societies. Students will learn the theoretical framework and practical aspects of advances user-centered design principles (such as participatory design and techno-centric ethnographies). This course represents an opportunity for students to enrich their understanding of the deep interconnections between human factors, human needs, interactive technologies, information, as projected on several dimensions: cultural, societal, ergonomic, and economic.

Prerequisites: CCT380H5
Exclusions: CCT485H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT478H5 • UX Design - Prototyping and Evaluation

The course investigates how people interact with interactive digital systems from an evaluation and formal testing perspective, and introduces students to the methods of User Experience Assessment and User Experience Analysis (UXA). This studio-based experiential course examines how interactive systems are implemented and deployed to meet users' needs, with a focus on formal Human Computer Interaction (HCI) evaluation methods. Students will acquire the capacity to evaluate systems and to critically assess different HCI and UX validation methods which are based on industry approaches carried out by User Research Analysis.

Prerequisites: CCT380H5
Exclusions: CCT480H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT481H5 • Augmented Places and Social Media Spaces

Increasingly we are seeing a hybridization of information and location, where media provide a framework or environment for users (participants) to construct reality and relationships. The course explores emergence of new ubiquitous communication practices and the increasingly pervasive use of technology for the augmentation of people, places, and objects. In this course, students will explore various approaches to context-based information systems, and the shaping of social media spaces.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT482H5 • Interactive Electronic Design

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) This course investigates the emerging field of critical making, which encourages students to approach social, communication and cultural issues through material engagement versus the literal and oral media more traditionally used in social science research. Students will not only explore core tensions and challenges regarding technology's role and influence in society, but engage these challenges directly through the design and physical creation of alternative technological prototypes. Basic mechanics, electronics and programming will be taught, with an understanding that thinking materially is rare for many most social science students. No previous knowledge is assumed.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT483H5 • Play, Performance and Community in Digital Games

Students will explore the complex relationship between games and play. Starting with an overview of the major play theories, students will learn how cognitive, philosophical and social theories of play are used to guide and inform game design. The increasingly prominent role of the player in the co-creation and performance of digital games will be examined. Students will also explore the emergence of player communities and consider the various issues that this introduces into design and management process, including important new questions about governance, player and creative freedoms, and immaterial labour.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits, including CCT270H5.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT486H5 • Digital Platforms: A Global Perspective

From Apple, Amazon, and Facebook to LINE, WeChat and TikTok, digital platforms dominate contemporary life. This course provides an intellectual voyage of the global spread of digital platforms from the days when they were not yet recognized as platforms to the contemporary era when users can hardly think of an internet without platforms. We will explore questions concerning the penetration of platforms into the social fabric of our digital life on a global scale while paying attention to the local conditions and specificity. Students will engage with key concepts, theories, and approaches related to platform studies through readings and discussions about different types of platforms, ranging from e-commerce and social media to live-streaming and on-demand service matching.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits
Exclusions: CCT490H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT487H5 • Advanced Communication Policy in a Global Context

This course provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of media, technology, and cultural policy in a global context. The course focuses on issues such as national identity and globalization, media convergence, intellectual property, global media regulation, security and privacy by examining how media, communication, and cultural policy is created, influenced, and contested by a range of actors.

Prerequisites: CCT206H5 and CCT332H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L/12T
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT490H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

An in-depth examination of selected topics in communication, culture, information and technology. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24S
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT491H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information and Technology

Campus: Sheridan

(Offered at Sheridan College) An in-depth examination of selected CCIT topics. Topics will vary from year to year and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits including CCT109H5 and CCT110H5 and permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36P
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT495H5 • Topics in Communication, Culture, Information & Technology

An in-depth examination of selected topics in communication, culture, information and technology. Topics vary from year to year and the content in any given year depends on the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

CCT499Y5 • Research Opportunity

This course provides an opportunity for third or higher year students to assist with the resource project of a profession in return for 499Y credit. Students have an opportunity to become involved in original research and enhance their research skills. Participating faculty members post their project description for the following summer and fall/winter session on the ROP website in mid-February and students are invited to apply at that time. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits or permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

MGD415H5 • E-Business Strategies

Electronic business, the extensive use of the web and the Internet, is radically changing existing businesses. New Internet businesses are also being created at an unprecedented rate. New business models, e-business technologies, payment mechanisms, legal and regulatory issues (e.g., intellectual property rights, privacy and security) and the economics of e-business will be investigated from a research and practical perspective.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and CCT355H5
Exclusions: MGT415H5 or MGT471H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

MGD421H5 • Technological Entrepreneurship

This course explores the methods and frameworks of entrepreneurship through an experiential learning model (learning by doing). Students will begin the process of developing a new business venture, exploring their own business ideas and developing a business plan and pitch while working in teams. Topics include the business model, customers and markets, financial models, competition, intellectual property, funding and investment and characteristics of entrepreneurial teams.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and (CCT219H5 or CCT319H5) and (CCT321H5 or MGM230H5) and (CCT221H5 or CCT322H5 or MGT252H5) and (CCT324H5 or MGT262H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 36L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

MGD426H5 • Enterprise Risk Management

This course will address the identification and management of risks that are specific to digital industries such as network penetration, transaction processing interruption and flow disruption, provision of audit and backup facilities. The course will also integrate technical security issues along with managerial and legal considerations.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and [CCT219H5 or CCT319H5 or EC0100Y5 or (ECO101H5 or ECO102H5)] and (CCT321H5 or MGM230H5) and (CCT221H5 or CCT322H5 or MGT252H5) and (CCT324H5 or MGT262H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

MGD427H5 • Advanced Legal Issues

This course will build on the foundations established in CCT206H5. Issues relating to the protection of digital rights, taxation, privacy, jurisdiction and regulation will be examined in detail through the use of recent legal scholarship and evolving case law.

Prerequisites: CCT112H5 and CCT206H5
Exclusions: MGM390H5 or MGT393H5 or MGT394H5 or MGT423H5 or MGT429H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

MGD429H5 • Data Analysis II

This course offers an overview of data analytics principles, approaches, and technologies that allow businesses to generate business intelligence. Business intelligence refers to all the means required to collect, exploit and analyze data in order to provide the right information to decision-makers at the right time. This course is designed for individuals interested in Business Intelligence practices and analysis from a management point of view, without a detailed focus on statistical or programming methods.

Prerequisites: CCT226H5 and CCT221H5 or CCT322H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI173H5 • Creative Non-Fiction

This course is an introduction to creative nonfiction as both a genre and a methodological tool for a variety of fields. It explores creative narrative approaches by professional writers in the form of journalism, documentary, ethnography, memoir, and narrative essay. This course also serves to begin and/or strengthen students’ own writing practice through craft-oriented workshops. Students explore ideas about product and process, form and meaning. Students will experiment with syntactic structures to explore how the form of language serves, or fails to serve, intention and the expression of meaning that may be understood and interpreted by others.

Exclusions: WRI203H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI225H5 • Community and Writing

Writing communication is a social act that both shapes and is shaped by community. Students in this course develop a narrative portfolio based on research into the experiences of individuals within a community that interests them. The course aims to enhance students’ storytelling by incorporating aspects of community such as unwritten rules, community language and nomenclature, rituals, history, ironic juxtaposition, and profiles of community members. Readings include a mix of student-authored and contemporary professional works.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
Exclusions: WRI325H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI227H5 • Social Media and Content Creation

Examines theory and offers practice in creating content for Social Media. The course explores the growth of the Web, from information gathering to interactive and cooperative information/opinion dissemination. Students will critically examine the rhetorical practices of Social Media users and how these practices currently shape communications. Students will create and maintain individual content creation projects.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
Exclusions: WRI327H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI273H5 • Specialized Prose

Examines theory and offers practice in nonfiction narrative with a specialized purpose. Students will explore conceptions of genre and the way genre shapes, and is shaped by, the social context of communications.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
Exclusions: WRI303H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI291H5 • Introduction to Journalism

This course provides an introduction to journalism and examines journalism’s role in a democratic society. Students learn the fundamentals of journalistic writing, with a focus on news and reporting. The course examines news formats and styles, sources, interviews, research, structure, and other fundamentals. The course functions as a newsroom, with students producing several reported articles throughout the term, and includes guest talks and workshops with practicing journalists.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
Exclusions: WRI378H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI292H5 • Narrative Inquiry

In this course, students design and carry out writing through a series of research techniques. Students learn to select and evaluate expert and scientific information from primary sources and produce content for an array of different media. A critical reading program exposes students to research-based writing. Assignments are aimed at developing professional skills across different forms and topics.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5
Exclusions: WRI392H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI293H5 • Introduction to Technical Communication

Introduction to Technical Communication serves as an introduction to the academic and professional fields of technical writing and communication. It explores strategies for analyzing organizational contexts, including professional audiences, professional purposes for writing, and organizational cultures. Assignments will build skills in technical writing, document design, documentation, accessibility, and ethical considerations for communication in professional settings.

Prerequisites: WRI173H5 or WRI203H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L

WRI299Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their second year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 299Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.


Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI306H5 • Writing for the Academic Sciences

Examines conventions and standard practices when scientists write for other scientists in academic science journals, in conference and poster presentations, and in grant applications. This course focuses on presenting primary and secondary research. Humanities and social science students will gain specialized skills in technical writing and editing. Science students will learn the writing practices expected in professional labs and research groups. Students will present an article-length paper presenting primary research findings and a conference poster presenting the same findings to a scientific audience.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0
Exclusions: WRI490H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI307H5 • Writing about Science

Examines the best practices of science writers and journalists who, based on research published in science journals, communicate scientific information to an educated audience which lacks specialized training. Science students will learn techniques for educating and informing public audiences. Humanities and social science students will learn to access and present current scientific information in engaging narrative. This course examines scientific writing and journalistic writing about science.


Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimumCGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI310H5 • Social and Professional Languages

Examines language by approaching it through its social users -- ethnic groups, genders, and social classes -- and its contextualized usages -- the languages of publishing, advertising, law, technical communications, academe and the electronic media. The course explores the functions of these languages and the roles of such forces as dictionaries, social change, and new communications technologies in the evolution of these languages.

Prerequisites: WRI227H5 or WRI273H5 or WRI291H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5 

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI320H5 • History and Writing

Examines written history as rhetoric and considers various conceptions of history and procedures for historical research and writing with reference to a range for models from Thucydides to contemporary writers of specialized and local histories. Students will conceptualize, design, and carry out primary source historical research to produce original history using locally available sources and materials.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Course Experience: University-Based Experience
Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI330H5 • Oral Rhetoric

Examines the rhetoric of speech drawing on theorists from Plato to Havelock to Ong, and considers implications of "great leap models" that present orality and literacy on a continuum. This course considers a range of oral practices from informal to formal, and from spontaneous to research-based and examines a range of rhetorical modes: dialogue, storytelling, reporting, debate and presentational address. Significant course time will be devoted to students' oral performance, both individual and team-based.

Prerequisites: WRI227H5 or WRI273H5 or WRI291H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI340H5 • Critical Reading and Listening

This course approaches reading and listening as time-bound processes by which we sense and make sense of the world around us. Reading and listening are not to be reduced merely to how we consume written or aural texts, but rather will be explored as the perceptual and cognitive activities that structure our sense of time, space, self and environment. We will place a particular emphasis on reading and listening in contemporary digital culture by engaging selectively with fundamental concepts in critical theory, as well as recent work in media and sound studies.

Prerequisites: WRI227H5 or WRI273H5 or WRI291H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI360H5 • Finance and Writing

Examines organizational discourse with special attention to financial analysis and financial documents as rhetorical elements. Students will design and carry out primary research into organizations such as publicly listed companies and non-profit organizations and will examine different modes for reporting research findings. Principles of discourse analysis and genre theory provide a conceptual framework. Students do not need backgrounds in accounting or finance to manage this course.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI363H5 • Communicating in a World of Data

This course examines how professionals in a variety of contexts communicate data. The course explores the growing relevance and allure of data in all its forms. Students will learn to interpret data to tell a story through numbers by creating infographics, writing informative articles from their own data mining, and presenting further findings at the end of the semester.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI365Y5 • Editing: Principles and Practice

Examines theory and practice of editing in a professional communications environment. The course will consider principles of editing and the editorial process as it applies to various forms of writing, from daily news, to magazines, books, web pages and blogs. Study will include examination of the building blocks of an editor's skills - grammar, spelling, syntax, punctuation - and the means employed by an editor working with a writer to achieve clarity, accuracy and immediate comprehension.

Prerequisites: WRI227H5 or WRI273H5 or WRI291H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5
Exclusions: WRI365H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 48L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI370H5 • Writing about Place

Examines writing about geographic places and the multiple rhetorics --- scientific, historical, geographical, social, political, economic --- that come into play. Students will design and carry out original primary research to develop their writing projects.

Prerequisites: WRI227H5 or WRI273H5 or WRI291H5 or WRI292H5 or WRI293H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI375H5 • Writing about Environment and Ecology

Examines the evolving rhetoric of scientific, journalistic, legal and political writing about environmental issues. The course will consider eco-linguistic theory and eco-critical discourse analysis. Through theory and applied research, including primary research, and writing, students will consider protocols, research standards, and ethics in writing about environment and appraise current issues around the emerging language of sustainability.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI380H5 • Podcasting

This course offers the skills and techniques needed to script, record and publish podcasts to the Web. Students will design and carry out original primary research to script, edit and produce independent podcasts. The course also explores the growing popularity of podcasts, and modern societies’ shift into a secondary orality.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI390H5 • Independent Studies

A research/writing project designed by the student in consultation with a faculty member. Independent Study students will produce a substantial body of writing at a high professional standard submitted in weekly installments and will develop their drafts in editing sessions with other Independent Studies students. Students will also design and carry out a reading program. Students may not take WRI390H5 and WRI391H5 in the same term.

Prerequisites: 8.0 credits including 1.5 WRI credits with a mark of 77% or higher in each and permission of course instructor or the PWC Director.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI391H5 • Independent Studies

A research/writing project designed by the student in consultation with a faculty member. Independent Study students will produce a substantial body of writing at a high professional standard submitted in weekly installments and will develop their drafts in editing sessions with other Independent Studies students. Students will also design and carry out a reading program. The Project Supervisor will be chosen in consultation with the Program Coordinator. Students may not take WRI390H5 and WRI391H5 in the same term.

Prerequisites: 8.0 credits including 1.5 WRI credits with a mark of 77% or higher in each and permission of instructor or the PWC Director.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI395H5 • Re-languaging: Writing Across Cultures and Languages

Explores the practice and experience of writing across cultures, languages, and space. We examine writing as inflected through questions of translation, migration, colonialism, and social identity. Students will consider these themes through a historical and theoretical lens to sharpen analytic and writerly skills.

Prerequisites: Completion of 8.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.0

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI399Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their third year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 399Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 10.0 credits or permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI410H5 • Professional Writing and Communication Internship 1

This course is a practical internship and is available only upon application from PWC Majors. Through a placement, students will apply their expertise in writing, editing and communications. Students must plan well in advance for their placement and work closely with CCIT/PWC placement officer to determine eligibility and suitability. A report of the placement, samples of work completed on the placement and a presentation about it will be required at the end of the placement. These, and the employer's assessment, will determine the course mark.

Prerequisites: Completion of 13.0 credits with a minimum CGPA of 2.5 and approval of the internship coordinator/instructor, and evidence of additional career development (e.g. workshops, networking events, and professional communication with faculty, librarians, staff, and peers).
Exclusions: CCT410H5 and CCT409H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI411H5 • Professional Writing and Communication Internship II

This course is a practical internship and is available only upon application from PWC Majors who have completed WRI410H5. The course is intended for students who have the opportunity to continue their WRI410H5 internship for a second semester. A report of the placement, samples of work completed on the placement and a presentation about it will be required at the end of the placement. These, and the employer's assessment, will determine the course mark.

Prerequisites: (Completion of 13.0 credits including WRI410H5 or CCT410H5 or CCT409H5) and minimum CGPA of 2.5 and permission of the Internship Coordinator.
Exclusions: CCT411H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI420H5 • Making a Book

Examines principles, procedures and practices in book publishing. Students, working collaboratively, will collect material for, design, edit, typeset, print and assemble books. Students will consider philosophical, aesthetic, and economic factors that guide publishing, editing and design decisions. Students who do not receive formal permission may not take this course.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 3.0 WRI credits and permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI430H5 • Journalistic Investigation

This course examines principles and practices in journalistic investigation and writing, and provides an introduction to the main socio-political issues related to contemporary journalism. The course will consider various models and formats of journalistic writing. Students will design and carry out investigative projects that culminate in a series of journalistic articles. The course will also analyze the Canadian media industry and its evolving labour market.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 1.5 WRI credits and (WRI291H5 or WRI378H5)

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI470H5 • Writing Futures

This course examines speculative non-fiction and explores ways writers communicate about research, projections, and plans for humanity’s future. Students will consider how writing and other cultural forms act not only as “products” of science and reportage but as tools of knowledge-making. Students will produce portfolios that respond to and add to the literature of speculative non-fiction.

Prerequisites: 3.0 WRI credits 
Exclusions: WRI490H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI483H5 • Character, Narrator and Psychic Space

This course examines the central role of characterization and character development in nonfiction prose. Students explore the theory of psychic space, working to understand how the creation of that space operates to advance audience engagement. Classwork explores the furnishing and unfurnishing of psychic space in relation to meaning and characterization. Students focus on a small set of characters they develop over time via a writing portfolio. The course considers the impacts of place, incident, narrative arc, and complication-resolution models, with reference to theories by Gerke, French, Wolfe, and Van Manen. Weekly exercises and assignments focus on developing believable, memorable characters. Readings include a mix of student-authored and contemporary professional works.

Prerequisites: 2.0 WRI credits

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI488H5 • Food and Writing

This course examines narrative approaches to researching and writing about food-related topics. Students will design and carry out research projects that culminate in a series of life stories, narrative articles/chapters, or personal essays that investigate complex relationships surrounding food in society.

Prerequisites: 2.0 WRI credits
Exclusions: Food and Writing taken previously as WRI490H5

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI490H5 • Special Topics in Writing

An in-depth examination of topics in writing. Topics vary from year to year, and the content in any given year depends upon the instructor. The contact hours for this course may vary in terms of contact type (L, S, T, P) from year to year, but will be between 24-36 contact hours in total. See the UTM Timetable.

Prerequisites: 2.5 WRI credits and permission of instructor

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Total Instructional Hours: 24L
Mode of Delivery: In Class

WRI499Y5 • Research Opportunity Program

This courses provides a richly rewarding opportunity for students in their fourth year to work in the research project of a professor in return for 499Y course credit. Students enrolled have an opportunity to become involved in original research, learn research methods and share in the excitement and discovery of acquiring new knowledge. Participating faculty members post their project descriptions for the following summer and fall/winter sessions in early February and students are invited to apply in early March. See Experiential and International Opportunities for more details.

Prerequisites: A minimum of 13.0 credits.

Distribution Requirement: Social Science
Mode of Delivery: In Class

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