Culture & Expression (BA)
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Culture & Expression explores the catalytic relationship between the creative human imagination and the cultural settings that ignite it.
Religion, literature, architecture, popular culture, the arts, media and technology provide areas of study for Culture & Expression courses. This program investigates how meaning, embedded in form, offers ways of understanding culture as a complex expression that animates human imagination and life. It encourages speculation on how this expression operates in social, political and cultural settings.
Through the lens of humanities studies, you will zero in on historical and contemporary themes. Explore how themes are expressed, refracted, and reflected through a range of cultural forms such as cinema, music, various forms of popular culture and literary studies. Theoretical courses will delve into the core of ideological "meaning" in culture, analyzing the social, economic and political contexts in which culture manifests itself.
Culture & Expression prepares students to pursue careers in the cultural industries, as well as education, publishing, marketing, and any profession or field that requires an awareness and appreciation of human creativity and diversity.
What makes this program unique:
- Explore exciting expressions of human creativity in popular culture, architecture, media and technology.
- Learn how a broad range of cultural and artistic forms convey social, political and philosophical concerns.
- Courses are drawn from areas including the humanities, communication studies, sociology and women's studies - providing you with personal choice and flexibility.
- Our professors are
leading researchers in their fields. They include
- Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Communication & Culture
- Caitlin Fisher, Canada Research Chair in Digital Culture
- Christopher Innes, Canada Research Chair in Culture & Performance
- Gail Vanstone, recipient of the 2010 Dean’s Award in Teaching Excellence.