Open Elective Offerings
Open Elective Offerings
Discover a wide selection of elective courses in The Creative School that are open to all students. This choose-your-own-adventure table lets you explore topics outside of your program of study.
Browse by each school to see what they are offering and check out some of the featured courses.
Feature course
Student teams drawn from a range of programs work on real-world problems presented by industry and community partners in a practice-based, knowledge-building learning environment. Teams address partners' needs through the use of innovative, flexible and creative approaches. With the support of experiential industry, community and academic mentorship, the students pursue disruptive outcomes, honing and vision-proofing their proposed solutions for future execution as a final product, white paper or prototype.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| CRI 300 Digital Design Studio | CRI 420 Book Publishing and Marketing |
| CRI 460 Financial Management for Creatives | CRI 500 Project Management |
| CRI 510 Art and Business of Gaming | CRI 520 Design Management |
| CRI 530 Talent Management | CRI 540 Marketing the Creative Industries |
| CRI 590 Storying Indigenous People | CRI 630 Advertising Theory and Practice |
| CRI 670 Music and Brands | CRI 680 Celebrity |
| CRI 770 Trendwatching | CRI 820 Global Licensing/Distribution Agreements |
| FCD 540 Marketing for Creatives | FCD 815 Design Solutions Supercourse I |
| FCD 816 Global Campus Studio I. | EID 100 Digital Skills & Innovation |
| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
CRI 300 Digital Design Studio |
CRI 400 Entrepreneurship in Creative Industries |
CRI 450 Appreciating Creativity in Practice |
CRI 540 Marketing The Creative Industries |
CRI 560 Topics in Creative Industries |
CRI 620 Concert & Festival Management |
CRI 670 Music and Brands |
CRI 850 Directed Reading Course |
CRI 860 The Big Night |
FCD 540 Marketing for Creatives |
EID 100 Digital Skills and Innovation |
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Feature course
An introduction to experience design and event design through the development and production of a large-scale, multi-stakeholder fashion and cultural event, Mass Exodus.
Learn skills in event production and management, service design, space design, content creation, technical direction, and budgeting to facilitate successful events in a variety of creative fields
Feature course
This course introduces students to issues of accessibility affecting graphic communication pieces. Accessibility is increasingly important in the design, production and distribution of print and non-printed graphic media. By improving accessibility, overall design and readability are often enhanced.
| SPRING/SUMMER 2024 | |
|---|---|
| Visit GCM Summer Intensives for enrolment and schedule info. | |
GCM 740 Accessibility for Graphic Communications |
GCM 746 Sustainability in Print and Packaging |
Feature course
This course examines issues of gender, race and sexuality in contemporary art practices after 1960. It explores the cultural construction of difference through art practice and theory, looking closely at work that relates to feminism, queer theory and critical race theory. With some historical context, the course will explore recent work in both art and activist contexts.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
IDE 314 Digital Fabrication |
IDE 402 Design in the Metaverse |
| IDE 414 Co-curricular Project | IDF 250 Contemporary Art and Design |
| IDF 400 Introduction to World Textile History | IDN 101 Design Communications I |
| IDN 102 Fabrication I | IDN 103 Materiality |
| IDN 305 History of Modern Interior Design | IRP 801 Professional Practice |
Feature course
This course will explore how sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity have been portrayed in the media, news and entertainment, both historically as well as in contemporary culture. The reasons and the implications for changes in the depiction of the LGBT community will also be explored. Do the media have the power to change public perception or are the changes in news coverage and the entertainment fields merely a reflection of changing cultural and public attitudes? Do these ever conflict, and if so, why?
Feature course
This course studies the nature and function of communication by, for, and about Indigenous peoples in both historical and contemporary settings. Students will take an expansive view of both text and textual analysis as they explore material culture (rock art, birchbark scrolls, wampum belts), historical documents and narratives (oral histories), policies and legal documents (treaties, statutes), and popular media representations. Indigenous theory will be the guiding framework for the course, but students will also be exposed to a range of other theoretical perspectives.
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
CMN 231 Communicating with Comics |
CMN 279 Introduction to Professional Communication |
CMN 288 Communication and Social Media |
CMN 305 Strategic Public Relations In ProCom |
| CMN 306 Risk and Crisis Communication | CMN 314 Professional Presentations |
| CMN 315 Issues in Organizational Communication | CMN 317 Information, Technology, and Control |
| CMN 406 Storytelling in an Indigenous Context | |
| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
CMN 100 Professional Health Communication |
CMN 231 Communicating with Comics |
CMN 279 Introduction to Professional Communication |
CMN 288 Communication and Social Media |
CMN 304 Career Advancement Communication |
CMN 305 Strategic Public Relations In ProCom |
| CMN 313 Organizational Report Writing | CMN 314 Professional Presentations |
CMN 462 Critical Health Communication |
CMN 600 Science, Communication and Society |
| FCD 210 Text, Image and Sound | |
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| FCD 222 Coding for Creatives | FCD 912 Researching Media Audiences |
| FCD 920 Visual Storytelling: Video Production | RTA 101 Introduction to Media Theory and Practice |
| RTA 111 Introduction to New Media | RTA 231 Sport Marketing and Promotion |
| RTA 315 Business of Creative Media | RTA 320 Interactive Storytelling |
| RTA 321 Intro to Tangible Media | RTA 322 Technology, Identity and Creativity |
| RTA 433 Issues in Sports | RTA 520 Public Practice |
| RTA 807 Interactive Design Practice | RTA 822 Interfaces for Live Performance |
| RTA 835 Media and Museums | RTA 838 Generative Processes |
| RTA 840 Esports | RTA 855 The Athlete's Perspective |
| RTA 863 Creative AI | RTA 867 Game Engines |
| RTA 907 Sound Media | RTA 908 Business of Producing I |
| RTA 912 Media Audiences | RTA 920 Visual Storytelling: Video Production |
| RTA 927 Business of Music I | RTA 928 Introduction to Game Design |
| RTA 936 The Business of Art | RTA 939 Indigenous Media |
| RTA 956 Children's Programming | RTA 972 - Sound Synthesis |
ZON 100 Zone Learning Project I |
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| WINTER 2025 | |
|---|---|
| FCD 222 Coding for Creatives | FCD 918 Media Ethics |
| RTA 105 Sport Media Theory and Practice | RTA 183 Rhythm, Beat and Groove |
RTA 201 Video Art Production |
RTA 210 Media History |
| RTA 211 Production Theory | RTA 220 New Media Art History |
| RTA 221 Experiential Media/Interdisciplinary Practice | RTA 222 Intro to Computational Arts |
| RTA 223 Designing Material Experiences | RTA 232 Sport, Media and Society |
| RTA 310 Media Aesthetics and Culture | RTA 315 Business of Creative Media |
RTA 323 Contemporary Strategies in New Media |
RTA 332 Legal and Business Aspects of Sport |
| RTA 711 Master Class | RTA 808 First Draft |
| RTA 814 Interactive Design Studio | RTA 818 Ants, Agents and Automatons |
| RTA 824 Net Zero | RTA 832 Cybernetics and Body Centric Technologies |
| RTA 848 Esports and Online Streaming Production | RTA 856 Strategies in Interactive Design |
| RTA 886 Intro to Studio Practice | RTA 890 AI and the Environment |
| RTA 891 Games Industry and Trends | RTA 905 History and Culture of Popular Music |
| RTA 909 Business of Producing II | RTA 910 Production Management |
| RTA 915 Legal Issues in Media | RTA 918 Ethics in Media |
| RTA 923 Videogame Narrative | RTA 934 Virtual Identities and Communities |
| RTA 937 Business of Music II | RTA 938 Digital Popular Cultures |
| RTA 950 Selected Topics in Media | RTA 953 Mobility and Mixed Reality |
| RTA 962 Interaction Design | RTA 989 Emerging Media Markets/Entrepreneurship |
| RTA 997 Intermediate Game Design: Mechanics | ZON 100 Zone Learning Project I |
| ZON 200 Zone Learning Project II | |
| FALL 2024 | |
|---|---|
| THA 340 Improvisation | THF 101 Elements of Production I |
| THF 200 Timelines of Performance History I | THF 402 Text Examination: Dramaturgy and Direction |
| THF 403 Landmarks in Canadian Theatre | THF 500 Performing Arts in the Media |
| THG 32A/B Staging the Theatrical Production-A | THP 500 Conceiving the Production |