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- Summer 2024
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- New Certificate in Sound offers interdisciplinary perspectives
- FCAT & SIAT partner with two BC school districts to bring new learning opportunities to indigenous students
- Lita Lising and Kiran Sonea are the inaugural recipients of the Shaun Kenneth Gauthier Memorial Award
- Communication alumnus and renowned acoustic ecologist Hildegard Westerkamp receives honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from 間眅埶AV
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- Spring 2024
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- IUPP student Morgan Peequaquat finds her voice and a community while organizing the Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
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- FCAT scholars awarded Community Engagement Initiative grants for their innovative work
- Going beyond diversity and inclusion: A Day with Dr. Kim TallBear
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- SCA's Arne Eigenfeldt in The Conversation: Why the growth of AI in making art wont eliminate artists
- FCAT hosts Safe Space for White Questions online discussion
- Our Way and The Klabona Keepers among 5th Annual Skoden Film Festival award winners
- FCAT supports northern BC communities with increased learning opportunities
- Master of Digital Media Grads Tackle Plastic Waste Blanketing Our Oceans with Group Shopping App
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- Spring 2023
- Cody Sawatsky Memorial Plaque Unveiled at the 間眅埶AV Surrey Campus
- Scholarly Impact of the Week: Michael Filimowicz
- School of Interactive Arts & Technology professor Wolfgang Stuerzlinger inducted to prestigious VR academy
- Meet Nico Hernandez, 2022 Lighthouse Lab Prize Recipient
- Jon Corbett Joins School of Interactive Art and Technology
- Welcome Kota Ezawa, the 2023 Spring Audain Visual Artist in Residence
- MPUB Alumnus Claire Cavanagh Becomes Literary Agent
- Alumnus designs Canucks Lunar New Year jersey
- 2023 Skoden Indigenous Film Festival
- How the Online Streaming Act will support Canadian content
- Meet Jonathan Newman, the 2022 Recipient of the Cody Sawatsky Memorial Award in Gaming
- Fall 2022
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- Graduating Student Sharlyn Monillas Tells Us About Her Time in CMNS
- Centre for Digital Media partners with Eth廙s Lab to improve Black representation in digital media
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- FACTS AND FALSEHOODS IN THE TIME OF COVID-19
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- FCAT June 2021 Convocation: Looking back
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- Episode 10: Shifting Places, Shifting Minds with Milton Lim
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- Episode 0: Welcome to FCAT After School Series 2!
- Episode 1: Entrepreneurship in UX Design with Eric Lee
- Episode 2: Community and Adaptability in the Performing Arts with Howard Dai
- Episode 3: Mastering the Art of Publishing with Jazmin Welch
- Episode 4: Navigating your Educational Journey with Broadcaster Simi Sara
- Episode 5: Career Transitions of a Software Engineer with Vic Ong
- Episode 6: Becoming Your Own Boss with Kirstin Richter
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- Episode 9: Exploring Virtual Production with Brenda Medina
- Episode 10: Inclusion in the Design Industry with Priscilla Skylar Lee
- Episode 11: Exploring Study Focus in Contemporary Arts with Sophie Tang
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- Episode 0: Season 3 Coming Soon!
- Episode 1: Following Your Creative Passions with Cameron Maitland
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- Season 3, Episode 4: Clowning, Failing, and Re-enchanting the Everyday with June Fukumura
- Season 3, Episode 3: The Poetry of Publishing with Charlotte Nip
- Season 3, Episode 2: Shame Demons and Queer Sci-fi Horror with Mily Mumford
- Season 3, Episode 1: Following Your Creative Passions with Cameron Maitland
- Season 2, Episode 11: Exploring Study Focus in Contemporary Arts with Sophie Tang
- Season 2, Episode 10: Inclusion in the Design Industry with Priscilla Skylar Lee
- Season 2, Episode 9: Exploring Virtual Production with Brenda Medina
- Season 2, Episode 8: Finding Your Place in Publishing with Heidi Waechtler
- Season 2, Episode 7: Kai Bockmann
- Season 2, Episode 6: Becoming Your Own Boss with Kirstin Richter
- Season 2, Episode 5: Career Transitions of a Software Engineer with Vic Ong
- Season 2, Episode 4: Navigating your Educational Journey with Broadcaster Simi Sara
- Season 2, Episode 3: Mastering the Art of Publishing with Jazmin Welch
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Electives
If you are looking for an exciting elective to round out your fall 2023 schedule, consider these course from across FCAT that are open to students outside of these programs.
Important Note: Not all courses will be open or offered each semester. For the most current information, please visit the .
Breadth-Social Sciences.
An introduction to selected theories about human communication.
This course is required for a major, honours or minor in communication.
An introduction to the forms, theories and institutions of communication as they relate to broader social change, with a focus on the political, economic and regulatory shifts characterizing Canadian and transnational media systems.
This course is required for a major, honours or minor in communication.
Media and identity centers the idea of "social position" and that media are created and interpreted from and through specific perspectives and experiences of the world.
Prerequisite: 9 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C-.
Harbour Centre on Tuesdays
Focuses on communication for social change; historical and contemporary perspectives in consumer culture; technology, media and popular culture; media and identity; and communication as public education.
Prerequisite: 9 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C-.
Writing.
An introduction to new communication/information technologies, seen as new media of communication: the technologies, their uses, and the social issues arising from them.
Students with credit for CMNS 253 may not take this course for further credit.
Topics on public and popular cultures with a focus on social, political, and cultural dynamics. Explores audiences, publics, and institutions at a global, national, and/or local level.
Prerequisite: 17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.
This course can be repeated once for credit (up to a maximum of two times).
Examination of the emergence and shaping of information and communication technologies and science in the digital age. Explores new media and social change between everyday life, social institutions, and various enterprises.
Prerequisite: 17 CMNS units with a minimum grade of C- or 45 units with a minimum CGPA of 2.00.
This course can be repeated once for credit if second topic is different (up to a maximum of two times).
Breadth-Humanities.
As the introductory course in IAT, this course teaches the core fundamental principles in 2D visual design, sequential and animation design. Students learn the fundamentals of digital photography and vector image creation.
Introduction to fundamental design principles for visual communication. Students will examine historical, philosophical, perceptual and semiotic approaches to understanding graphic design, and will explore principles of form, such as structure and composition, hierarchy, form, color, space, scale, typography, and legibility and readability through hands-on projects.
Breadth-Humanities.
Students learn the fundamentals of digital raster and vector image creation. Design principles such as form, typography and colour theory as they apply to digital media will be taught.
Primarily for non-SIAT majors; while SIAT majors may take the course, it does not count for credit for SIAT degree requirements.
Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.
Reviews the history of games, tracing the evolution of game design from board and card games through the latest electronic products. Examines the medium of games through various lenses: games as rules (game design), games as play (game experience), and games as culture (culture within games, and role of games and game cultures).
An introduction to music theory and exposure to the application of music materials in a wide spectrum of music literature will be accompanied by practical exercises. The course is designed for students with no formal music training.
CA 117 MODERN ART HISTORY (3)
Breadth-humanities.
An introduction to the visual arts of the nineteenth century. formal and thematic approaches to the arts will be introduced, with attention to the social, institutional, national, and international contexts of art.
A studio course devoted to the development of movement skills through specific styles of dance. The content of the course changes every semester. May repeat for credit.
Prerequisite: 12 units.
Breadth-Humanities/Social Sciences.
Study of the development of modern dance and the reformation of the ballet from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.
Students with credit for CA 227 may not take this course for further credit.
Breadth-humanities.
An introductory course designed to facilitate a fundamental understanding of film technique, style and form in order to develop the skills with which to analyze films of all genres. The course will involve the screening and discussion of several complete feature films and shorts, as well as excerpts from others.
Breadth-humanities.
This course will examine the early development of cinema from 1890 until about 1945, with particular emphasis on the fundamental principles of film as an art form.
Breadth-humanities.
Looks at the issues involved in being a creative musical artist in the 21st century. Topics include historical context, race and gender, the role and influence of politics, music and identity, appropriation, art music, functional music, and hybrid practices.
Breadth-humanities.
21st century music appreciation aims to develop a critical ear and advanced listening skills. The course will take a post-modern approach to appreciation in that it will present a diversity of music from many cultures, styles, and periods in an effort to discover similarities, differences, and defining characteristics.
Quantitative.
Introduction to acoustics, psychoacoustics, sound synthesis, audio sampling and signal processing, and sound production in general as relating to music, film sound, radio, new media, art installations and live performance.
Students who have taken CA 184 may not take this course for further credit.
An approach to the elements of acting for non-theatre performance majors. Work will include development of individual powers of expression - vocal, physical, intellectual, imaginative, and emotional.
CA 160 INTRODUCTORY STUDIO IN VISUAL ART I (3)
A hands-on studio course modeled on the progressive development of artistic practice from simple mark-making to full scale installation.
A course materials fee is required.
An introduction to the processes, tools and technology used in the production and presentation of the fine and performing arts. Course requirements will include hands-on assignments in the production of theatre, dance, and music events.
Laboratory fee required.
Introduces the many ways artists have employed moving images across artistic disciplines. By the completion of the course students should have a good sense of both the historical innovations and traditions in moving-image arts as well as the use of moving images in the contemporary art scene.
A survey of the key works and ideas that have informed contemporary moving image art practice nationally and internationally, from the early european avant-garde to the lyrical and structural works of the seventies, the issue-based work of the eighties, and finally the gallery-based practices of the present day.
Prerequisite: one of ca 117 (or 167), 118 (or 168), 135, 136, or 137, or 30 units.
The relationship of music and culture, with emphasis on traditional and contemporary music in asia, africa, the middle east, latin america and the caribbean, and indigenous cultures of north america.
Prerequisite: 45 units.
Writing/Breadth-Humanities.
The detailed structural analysis of dramatic texts and/or performances, their historical context, their development and production histories.
Focus on skills and knowledge required to thrive as a creator/entrepreneur in contemporary society. Exploration of the life cycle of various creative enterprises and the development of a personal plan to realize the student's goals.
Prerequisite: 45 units.
This course examines the role of music in the viewer's experience of moving pictures. Beginning with the early 1900s, the lectures will introduce important composers, directors, films, genres and historical periods. Specific films and other works will be analyzed.
Prerequisite: 60 credit hours. Students who have taken this course previously as special topics may not take it again for further credit.
An exploration of how social media have transformed social behaviour (presentation of self) into proto-publishing (publication of self) by encouraging greater public participation in publishing in all forms of publishing in society. Using online tracking to discern practices, attention is given to how social media contribute to the social identities of participants and how they affect social interaction.
Introduction to the elements and principles of graphic design with a focus on the development of software skills, in design, layout, and production.
An in-depth study of the design methods fundamental to books in print and digital media. Students evaluate, and engage in the design and repurposing of publications, exploring current practices of content delivery online and through mobile devices. Emphasis is placed on innovative methods and design practices for screen-based publishing.
Prerequisite: PUB 231
Intensive analysis of a particular topic, practice, or technique in publishing.
May repeat for credit a maximum of two times.
Prerequisite: 75 credits.
Intensive analysis of a particular topic, practice, or technique in publishing.
May repeat for credit a maximum of two times.
Prerequisite: 75 credits.
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Making Knowledge Public explores how knowledge produced at universities makes its way into society, the public value of this knowledge, and the diminishing attention given to this public mission. The course asks questions such as: how does research shape public policy? how is the public involved in science? and, how is research taken up by the public? The course is premised on the belief that, in todays climate, it is more important than ever for universities, researchers, and scholars to assert themselves in the public sphere in more purposeful ways. Students will have the opportunity to explore academic publishing and the importance this segment of the publishing industry plays in our society.