Media Studies Electives

Below is a list of approved MST electives for Spring/Summer 2024 and Fall 2024/Winter 2025. To view lists of approved MST electives from previous years, please visit the MST Approved Electives Archive.

Please note:

  • It is important to follow the program requirements for the year you were admitted. See the Calendar archive and select the appropriate year.
  • Below are the courses from the approved calendar list of electives that are running in Spring/Summer 2024 and Fall 2024/Winter 2025.
  • Courses with an asterisk (*) are also approved for the specified term, but are not yet in the University Calendar. Once you have successfully completed one of these courses, it will be manually moved on your Academic Requirements Report.
  • Check Bear Tracks carefully for specific enrollment instructions and course information, and contact the department offering the class if you have further questions.

Spring 2024

Approved Electives:

  • ART 134 Art Fundamentals
  • DES 135 Design Fundamentals
  • HADVC 211 Special Topics in the History of Art, Design and Visual Culture (LEC A1 ONLY // Topic: Art, Design & Disability) *
  • HIST 115 Technology and History *
  • LA ST 499 - Special Topics: Cuba - Myths and Realities * (this is a study abroad opportunity, for more information click here)
  • MUSIC 245 Introduction to Music Technologies
  • STS 200 Introduction to Studies in Science, Technology and Society
  • WGS 101 Representations of Girls and Women

Summer 2024

Approved Electives:

  • DES 135 Design Fundamentals
  • WGS 220 Feminism and Popular Culture

Fall 2024

Approved Electives:

  • ANTHR 230 Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Environment
  • ART 134 Art Fundamentals
  • C LIT 352 Literature and the Other Arts
  • DES 135 Design Fundamentals
  • EASIA 260 Popular Culture and Contemporary Japanese Society
  • EASIA 372 K-Pop and Korean Culture
  • ENGL 397 History of the Book
  • FREN 445 Contemporary Cinema in French
  • FS 201 Introduction to Film History I
  • FS 203 Television from Broadcasting to Screen Cultures
  • FS 321 Animation
  • FS 333 Experimental Films
  • FS  412 Topics in Film Studies
  • FS 416 Analyzing Television
  • HADVC 257 History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture in Canada
  • HIST 115 Technology and History *
  • HIST 486 Topics in the History of Technology
  • LA ST 415 From Modernism to Tropicalism: (Post) Modernity in Brazilian Culture *
  • MLCS 210 Approaches to Cultural Studies *
  • MST 350 Understanding Video Games
  • MST 351 Understanding Video Games
  • MUSIC 103 Introduction to Popular Music
  • MUSIC 245 Introduction to Music Technologies
  • PHIL 365 Philosophy of Computing
  • SOC 302 Topics in Sociology (LEC A1 only; Topic: Media and Society) *
  • SOC 444 Critical Media Studies
  • STS 200 Introduction to Studies in Science, Technology and Society
  • WGS 101 Representations of Girls and Women

winter 2025

Approved Electives:

  • ART 134 Art Fundamentals
  • DES 135 Design Fundamentals
  • EASIA 461 Occult Cinephilia: Contemporary Japanese Horror in Film *
  • ENGL 398 Histories of Reading
  • ENGL 483 Studies in Popular Culture
  • FS 202 Introduction to Film History II
  • FS 215 Introduction to Film Theory
  • FS 318 Science Fiction Film
  • FS 324 Monsters, Slashers, and Ghosts
  • FS 341 Television Genres
  • FS 412 Topics in Film Studies
  • GERM 460 Seminar in Literature (LEC B1 only) *
  • HIST 115 Technology and History *
  • HIST 121 Topics in Global History (LEC B1 only; Topic: History of Computing) *
  • HIST 191 Video Games, History, and Storytelling *
  • HIST 293 History of Science, Technology and Medicine: Key Moments
  • INT D 350 Game Design Principles and Practice
  • INT D 450 Computers and Games
  • ITAL 499 Special Topics (LEC B1 only; Topic: Italian Cinema) *
  • MLCS 210 Approaches to Cultural Studies *
  • MST 299 Special Topics in Media Studies (LEC B1 Topic: Language and the Internet) 
  • MUSIC 103 Introduction to Popular Music
  • MUSIC 203 Issues in Popular Music Studies
  • MUSIC 445 Electroacoustic Music
  • MUSIC 488 Studies in Music and Media
  • PHIL 366 Computers and Culture
  • POL S 298 Topics in Political Science (LEC B2 only Topic: Introduction to Communication Policy in Canada: Power, Persuasion and Participation) *
  • POL S 448 Gender Politics and Mass Media
  • SOC 226 Surveillance Studies
  • STS 200 Introduction to Studies in Science, Technology and Society
  • WGS 101 Representations of Girls and Women
  • WGS 220 Feminism and Popular Culture

An asterisk (*) denotes that class will not automatically show up as an Approved Elective on your Academic Requirements Report and will be added manually upon successful completion and a final grade has been posted.

If your Academic Requirements Report does not reflect a course you have successfully completed, please contact the Undergraduate Advisor (mtsug@ualberta.ca).