All Undergraduate Courses

For course descriptions, please see the Cinema Studies Program in the Faculty of Arts & Science Calendar

Group A Courses: Foundations
CIN105Y1 Introduction to Film Study
CIN201Y1 Film Cultures I: Art and Industry
CIN301Y1 Film Cultures II: Politics and Global Media

 

Group B Courses: Genre and Modes
CIN210H1 Horror Film
CIN211H1 Science Fiction Film
CIN212H1 Cinema and Sensation I: Action/Spectacle
CIN213H1 Cinema and Sensation II: Sex
CIN214H1 New Media Forms
CIN215H1 Fantasy Film
CIN216H1 Crime Film Traditions
CIN310Y1 Avant-Garde and Experimental Film
CIN312Y1 Documentary Film
CIN314Y1 Genre, Narrative and Narration in Film
CIN315H1 Sound and Animation
CIN320H1 Special Topics in Genre and Modes
CIN321H1 Special Topics in Genre and Modes II
CIN322H1 Cult Cinema
CIN410H1 Advanced Study in Genre and Modes
CIN411H1

Advanced Study in Genre and Modes

CIN412H1 Advanced Study in Genre and Modes
CIN420H1 Advanced Studies in Cinema

 

Group C Courses: Social and Cultural Practices
CIN230H1 The Business of Film
CIN240H1 Special Topics in Cinema Studies
CIN330Y1 Feminist Approaches to Cinema
CIN332Y1 Screening Race
CIN334H1 The Origins of the Animation Industry, 1900-1950
CIN335H1 Animation after 1950
CIN336H1 Queer Film and Media
CIN337H1 Black Cinema
CIN338H1 Environmental Media
CIN340H1 Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
CIN341H1 Special Topics in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice II
CIN349H1 Screenwriting
CIN430H1 Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
CIN431H1 Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
CIN432H1 Advanced Study in Cinema as Social and Cultural Practice
CIN433Y1 Sensory Ecologies: Theory and Praxis in Environmental Media Studies
CIN440H1 Advanced Studies in Cinema

 

Group D Courses: Theory and Criticism 
CIN250Y1 Directors: Four Studies in Film Authorship
CIN260H1 Selected Topics in Cinema Studies
CIN352H1 Issues in Film Authorship I
CIN353H1 Issues in Film Authorship II
CIN360H1 Special Topics in Theory and Criticism
CIN361H1 Special Topics in Theory and Criticism II
CIN362H1 Animals and Cinema
CIN363H1 Ecocinema: The Nature of Film
CIN364H1 Theories of Media
CIN365H1 Studies in Cinema and Media Practice
CIN366H1 Durable Empires and Medias of Mass Culture
CIN369H1 Critical Writing on Film
CIN450H1 Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism
CIN451H1 Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism
CIN452H1 Advanced Study in Theory and Criticism
CIN460H1 Advanced Studies in Cinema
CIN461H1 Advanced Study in Cinema and Media Practice

 

Group E Courses: History and Nation 
CIN270Y1 American Popular Film Since 1970
CIN370H1 Canadian Cinemas
CIN371H1 (New) Media Aesthetics
CIN372Y1 Contemporary World Cinema
CIN374Y1 American Filmmaking in the Studio Era
CIN376Y1 Chinese Cinema
CIN378H1 Aspects of a National Cinema
CIN379H1 Hungarian Cinema
CIN380H1 Special Topics in History and Nation
CIN381H1 Special Topics in History and Nation II
CIN470H1 Advanced Study in History and Nation
CIN471H1 Advanced Study in History and Nation
CIN472H1 Advanced Study in History and Nation
CIN480H1 Advanced Studies in Cinema
FCS310Y1 French Cinema
GER251H1 German and European Cinema
ITA240Y1 History of Italian Cinema
ITA340H1 Italian Neorealist Cinema
ITA341H1 Gender and Genre in Italian Cinema
ITA342H1 Popular Italian Cinema
ITA345H1 Cinema of the Italian Diasporas

 

Group F Courses: Independent Studies 
CIN490Y1 Independent Studies in Cinema
CIN491H1 Independent Studies in Cinema
CIN492H1 Independent Studies in Cinema

 

Group G Courses: Cross-Listed
CLT355H1 Contemporary Celtic Cinema
EAS242H1 Japanese Cinemas I: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity
EAS243H1 Japanese Cinemas II: Film Form and the Problems of Modernity
EAS249H1 Sinophone Cinemas: Revolution of the Sensible World
EAS278H1 Approaches to Korean Cinema
EAS431H1 Advanced Topics in Japanese Cinema
FCS392H1 Special Topics in French Cultural Studies II
FIN250H1 Finnish Cinema
FIN260H1 Scandinavian Cinema
GER250H1 Topics in German Film History
HIS345H1 History and Film
HIS459H1 Soviet History and Film, 1921-1946
HIS460H1 Soviet History and Film, 1941-1991
HIS467H1 French Colonial Indochina: History, Cultures, Texts, Film
JSU325H1 Queerly Canadian
SLA226H1 Film and Ethics: Polish Cinema
SLA234H1 Russian and Soviet Cinema
SLA333H1 Animated Film in Europe
SPA275H1 Latin American Cinema

 

First Year Foundations
CIN196H1 Story Worlds and the Cinema
CIN197H1 School Daze