Cultural Management Specialization
The Faculty of Arts offers students the opportunity for academic and practical training in Cultural Management as an integral part of their Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan. The Cultural Management Specialization provides students with the possibility of a broadly-based education in the liberal arts, combined with courses in cultural management, economics, accounting, communications, and computing. Students in Cultural Management complete four (of six) work terms in performing and visual arts organizations throughout Canada, working in the areas of management, fundraising, and marketing.
Honours Arts and Business Co-op students apply for admission to the Cultural Management Specialization during their 2A academic term (following completion of 1A and 1B, having declared an Honours Major and normally having completed their first Arts and Business Co-op work term).
Cultural Management Specialization students complete the required courses for the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan (Year 1A, 1B, and 2A), the Honours Arts Major academic plan, and the required courses for the Cultural Management Specialization.
It should be stressed that only students in Honours Arts and Business Co-op are eligible for the Cultural Management Specialization.
Requirements
(Students should check for course prerequisites)
- Required courses:
ARBUS 302 Marketing: Principles of Marketing and Consumer Economics
DRAMA 348 Cultural Management 1
DRAMA 349 Cultural Management 2
DRAMA 350 Cultural Management 3
HRM 200 Human Resources Management
SPCOM 223 Public Speaking
- Arts and Business courses:
ARBUS 101 Introduction to Business in North America
ARBUS 102 Accounting Information for Managers
ARBUS 201 The Principles of Entrepreneurship
Computer Science course
ECON 101 Introduction to Microeconomics
ENGL 210F Genres of Business Communication
Second Language (first & second half)
For further information, please contact the Cultural Management Specialization Director.
Digital Arts Communication Specialization
Within the Faculty of Arts, the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan offers a specialization in Digital Arts Communication. This specialization is available to students who wish to study the design of digital communication using hypertext, image, sound, and video. The specialization emphasizes the design of digital communication, and especially its role in meeting the needs of different audiences, rather than computer programming or the use of particular software applications.
It should be stressed that only students in the Arts and Business Co-op academic plan can apply for the Digital Arts Communication Specialization. To be considered for admission to this specialization, students must have completed DAC 201 Designing Digital Images and Hypertext, or DAC 202 Designing Digital Video, with a grade of 75% or better and be in satisfactory standing in the Honours Major and Arts and Business Co-op academic plans. Due to limitations of resources, fulfilment of these minimum entrance requirements does not guarantee admission to the Digital Arts Communication Specialization.
In February of Year Two, Arts and Business Co-op students can apply for the specialization. A committee will make the final selection of candidates being accepted to the specialization after assessing the student's digital portfolio.
Requirements
In addition to the Honours Arts Major and the Arts and Business Co-op requirements, students must complete three academic course units (six courses) with a minimum cumulative average of 75%, including:
- Required courses:
DAC 201 Designing Digital Images and Hypertext
DAC 202 Designing Digital Video
- Two courses from the following:
DAC 300 Special Topics in Digital Design
DAC 301 Designing with Digital Sound
DAC 303 Designing Learning Activities with Interactive Multimedia
DAC 304 Designing Computer Simulations and Games for Learning
DAC 400 Digital Design Research Project
- Two courses from the following:
DAC 329 Digital Presentations
DAC 403 Special Topics in Speech Communication and Technology
ENGL 320 History and Theory of Media 2
ENGL 392A Information Design
ENGL 392B The Rhetoric of Text and Image
FINE 228 Electronic Imaging A or FINE 229 Electronic Imaging B
MUSIC 275 Music and Technology
For further information, please contact the Digital Communication Specialization Director or the Arts and Business Co-op Academic Assistant.
International Trade Specialization
The globalization of the world economy, arising from the much accelerated process of economic integration, implies that Canada will increasingly demand people with education and skills in areas related to international trade. As an integral part of the Honours Arts and Business Co-op academic plan in the Faculty of Arts, the International Trade Specialization provides students with a broadly-based education in the liberal arts combined with courses targeted to international trade.
Enrolment in the specialization is limited. Honours Arts and Business Co-op students apply for admission to the International Trade Specialization during their 2A academic term through a process of a formal written application and a personal interview.
Requirements
In addition to the Honours Arts Major and the Arts and Business Co-op requirements, students must successfully complete four academic course units (8 courses) divided between required and elective courses, and the seminar milestone with a minimum cumulative average of 70%, including:
- Required courses:
ECON 102 Introduction to Macroeconomics
ECON 231 Introduction to International Economics
INTTS 301 Institutions of International Trade and Finance (Cross-listed as ECON 334)
- Second Language:
Additional language course (second half of Arts and Business language requirement)
- Milestone:
INTTS 400 International Trade Seminar (Fall term only)
- Four elective courses:
(must complete two courses from each category):
A: Cultures, Peoples, Geography and History
ANTH 102 Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 202 Principles of Social and Cultural Anthropology
EASIA 201R East Asian Culture
ENGL 208L Race and English Literature
ENGL 322 Postcolonial Literature of the Americas
ENGL 463 Postcolonial Literatures
FR 292 French Civilization 2
GER 272 German Thought and Culture
GEOG 101 Geography and Human Habitat
GEOG 202 Location of Economic Activity
GEOG 305 Patterns and Processes of Biogeography
GEOG 306 Gender and Environments
GEOG 353 Retail Location
HIST 130 The Modern World in Historical Perspective
HIST 239 History of Modern China, 1911 to the Present
HIST 389 Canada in World Affairs
ITALST 292 Italian Culture and Civilization 2
PSYCH 253 Social Psychology
PSYCH 338 Organizational Psychology
PSYCH 354 Interpersonal Relations
SPAN 218 Latin American Civilization 2
REES 272 Russian Thought and Culture
B: Economics and Political Science
ECON 201 Microeconomic Theory 1
ECON 202 Macroeconomic Theory 1
ECON 304 Monetary Economics
ECON 332 International Finance
ECON 436 International Trade
PACS 311 Doing Development: Issues of Justice and Peace
PACS 324 Human Rights in the Marketplace
PSCI 231 Government and Business
PSCI 255 Comparative Politics of Advanced Industrial Nations
PSCI 281 World Politics
PSCI 282 Foreign Policy
PSCI 350 Political Economy of Development
PSCI 355 Politics in the Soviet Successor States
PSCI 381 Foreign Policies of South Asian States
PSCI 382 Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy
PSCI 434 Comparative Public Administration
PSCI 485 Selected Topics in International Political Economy
- Students are expected to arrange to spend two terms working or studying abroad.
Notes:
- Up to three courses can be double-counted towards the completion of the specialization as long they are required by the two academic plans.
- No triple counting is allowed (i.e., between Arts and Business, International Trade, and the Major).
For further information, please contact the International Trade Specialization Director or the Arts and Business Co-op Academic Assistant.