Visual Culture & Communication
Visual Culture and Communication (VCC) is an interdisciplinary undergraduate curriculum that provides students with a foundation in both visual cultural and communication studies (history, theory, and criticism) and digital communication practices (with courses taught at Sheridan College).
Honours Bachelor of Arts
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- Director of Photography
- Graphic Designer
- Arts Administrator
- Information Specialist/Librarian
- Exhibit Designer
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Admissions RequirementsLife in Visual Culture & Communication
Buzz Around Campus
Filmmaker Richie Mehta was finishing a project in Delhi when the Nirbhaya (Hindi for “fearless) case broke out. The 2012 gang rape and murder of a 23-year-old student in the national capital territory was front-page news worldwide, but the crime shook India to its core.
Elizabeth Wijaya is one of the rare scholars who can claim a listing on IMDB, the Internet Movie Data Base. The new assistant professor of East Asian cinema at U of T Mississauga studies the transnationality of cinema – how stories and people cross borders throughout Asia. She also has credits as a writer, director and producer with E&W Films, the film production company she runs with partner and U of T Mississauga sessional lecturer Lai Weijie.
From 20th century strongmen to Gwyneth Paltrow’s infamous jade egg, a new course at U of T Mississauga explores how self-styled health-and-wellness experts influence and profit from the pursuit of the perfect body. Special topic course "Visuality and North American Fitness Culture" uses advertising to explore the ever-changing—and sometimes repeating—health and fitness fads of the past century.
Sample Courses
This course provides a survey of contemporary theories, technologies and critical challenges in a variety of media of creative expression.
This course examines monster movies and television shows alongside readings from monster literature, comics, and critical essays.
This course will examine political and social activism in visual and media culture focusing on the role that visual representation has played in social movements.
Other Programs to Consider
Art & Art History
Art History offers students an exciting forum for developing critical skills in interpreting visual imagery and understanding the significance of art in a variety of cultures and historical periods, including the contemporary moment. Courses span the history of art from the ancient to the contemporary worlds, and investigate art from Europe.
Cinema Studies
The Cinema Studies program is devoted to the stylistic, historical, and theoretical analysis of film. Students learn about film as a unique mode of communication in the 20th and 21st centuries, while also investigating what it is that film can be said to share with allied art forms.
Communication, Culture, Information & Technology
Communication, Culture Information & Technology (CCIT) is an undergraduate interdisciplinary major program, the curriculum for which provides students with a foundation in the analysis, evaluation and interpretation of communication and digital media using appropriate methodologies. CCIT provides students the opportunity to design a range of communication media and digital artifacts suitable for collaboration, communication, learning, and exploration.