Undergraduate Courses

The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies offers courses in Art history and Visual Culture, Creative Writing, Cultural Studies, Digital Humanities, English, Film, French, German, Japanese, Media Studies, Spanish, Theatre, Visual Arts, and World Literatures.

Stay tuned for a list of courses and descriptions to be taught in the 2019-2020 academic year.

Search the course schedule for the current academic year HERE.

In FCCS, we are continually updating and adding to the courses that we offer in all subject areas.

New Courses

  • WRLD 382: Cross Cultural Travel Narratives

    In this interdisciplinary course students will:

    • Learn where they are on an intercultural development scale (you can use the results in your CV!).
    • Explore intercultural communication theories that are useful for working internationally.
    • Read and discuss a variety of travel memoirs, biographies, and case-studies (non-fiction).
    • Work on a digital storytelling project with local seniors.

    Winter 2019 Term 1
    Instructor: Alwyn Spies

    World Literature 382

  • CULT 470A/ENGL 412A: Gender, Race, Medicine & the Construction of the Hysteric

    This course examines the cultural and and political history of hysteria, paying special attention to its relationship with race, gender, and sexuality. Students will engage with a diverse range of material including theory, medicine, literature, and film to consider the shifting definitions, diagnoses, treatments and representation of hysteria over time.

    Winter 2019 Term 2
    Instructor: Maria Alexopoulos

    CULT470

  • ENGL 395C: Superheroes

    This course examines the origins of modern-day superheroes, like Iron Man and the Hulk, in ancient epic, legend, history, and their relationship to modern discourses of gender, race, and selfhood.

    Prerequisite: 3 credits of 100-level ENGL or APSC 176 and 3rd year standing, or permission of the instructor.

    Note: this course is a Popular Literature course, and may not be taken for credit towards the English major, minor, honours or combined major.

    Winter 2019 Term 1
    Instructor: Marie Loughlin

    ENGL 395 Superhero

  • ENGL 458: Canadian Environmental Writing: Writing the Okanagan.

    A new course on the representation of the Okanagan Valley in Canadian literature, including Indigenous authors. We will look at this place through a literary lens, and look at novels and poetry from the perspective of dwellers and settlers of this place.

    Winter 2019 Term 1
    Instructor: Greg Garrard

    ENGL 458 Writing the Okanagan

  • CULT 410C Asian Cinema: Transnational Korean Cinema

    This course explores transnational meanings and practices of contemporary Korean films, such as The Handmaiden (2016), Okja (2017), and Burning (2018).

    Prerequisite: 3 credits of 200 level CULT or permission of the instructor

    Winter 2019 Term 2
    Instructor: Kyong Yoon

    CULT 401

  • CULT 401J Topics in Media Studies: Gender, Race and Media

    This course examines the racial and gendered landscape in media and popular culture today. We will explore diverse perspectives that focus on race and gender mainly through intersectional feminist voices, concepts and dialogues. We will be drawing on local and global contexts to understand the complexity of how media is used in identity construction and the tensions that arise.

    Winter 2019 Term 2
    Instructor: Alifa Bandali

    Topics in Media Studies: Gender, Race and Media