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Academic Calendar 2025-2026

Media and Performance Production – Specialization (Arts) – Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Subject: Administered by the DAN School of Drama and Music and the Department of Film and Media
Plan: Consists of 60.00 units as described below.
Plan Code: MAPP-S
Program: The Plan, alone, or in combination with a Minor in another subject, and with sufficient electives to total 120.00 units, will lead to a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Degree.

Note: Requirements for this program have been modified. Please consult the 2024-2025ÌýCalendar for the previous requirements.

1. Core
A. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
Thinking Locally
and Acting Globally
or
Introduction to Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies
or
Music, Meaning, and Society
and Introduction to Digital Audio Recording, Editing, and Mixing
B. Complete 6.00 units from the following:6.00
and
or
Film Form and Modern Culture to 1970
and Mobile Communications
C. Complete the following:
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý240Introduction to Theatre Production I3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý250Fundamentals of Media Production3.00
D. Complete the following:
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý200Media and Performance I3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý300Media and Performance II3.00
E. Complete the following:
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý400Media and Performance Major Project6.00
2. Option
A. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
MAPP_Options
B. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
Drama_Theatre_Performance_Options
C. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
Expanded_Media_Production_Options
D. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
Theory_Options
E. Complete 6.00 units from the following course list:6.00
Sound_Production_Options
Electives and/or Other Plan Requirements60.00
Total Units120.00

3. Substitutions

´¡.ÌýStudents admitted to the Plan in May 2025 may use ¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý111/3.0 and ¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý112/3.0 to satisfy Core 1.µþ.Ìý

4. Notes 

´¡.Ìý¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý250/3.0 is the prerequisite course for all upper-year FILM production courses and therefore should be taken in second year. ¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý257/3.0 is the prerequisite for ¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý312/3.0.

B. A maximum of 6.00 units from courses offered by other Faculties and Schools may be counted toward the program and/or Plan requirements. This includes courses in BMED, COMM, GLPH, HSCI, LAW, NURS, and courses offered by Smith Engineering.

Media and Performance Production Course Lists

The following lists may contain courses offered through other Departments. In accordance with Academic Regulation 2.6Ìý(Access to Classes), students do not have enrolment priority in all of these courses. Access to these courses may only be made available during the Open Enrolment period, and then only if space permits.

MAPP_Options

²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý311Sound Production3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý366Media Installation Art3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý395Internship3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý401Special Topics in Media and Performance3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý493Visual Music3.00

Drama_Theatre_Performance_Options

¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý238Elementary Acting3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý241Design and Theatre3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý242Introduction to Theatre Production II3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý246Technical Practicum1.50
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý323Practical Concerns in Directing3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý335Acting for the Screen3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý342Elements of Design Practice3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý344Scenography3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý345Applied Technical Production3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý346Introduction to Props Design3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý389Music Theatre Creation Lab3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý541Directed Studies Design3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý545Advanced Technical Production3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý389Music Theatre Creation Lab3.00

Expanded_Media_Production_Options

´¡±·±õ²ÑÌý356Animation Production3.00
´¡±·±õ²ÑÌý3773D Animation3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý347Puppetry3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý348Mask Making3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý218Media Theory and History3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý275The Frame3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý352Production: Issues of Form and Structure3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý378Computational Cinema3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý379Virtual and Augmented Reality App Development3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý390Open Media Production3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý394Post-Production3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý401Special Effects3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý455Cross-Platform Storytelling3.00

Theory_Options

¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý103Theatre and Pop Culture3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý401Performance Studies3.00
¶Ù¸é´¡²ÑÌý482Performance in Times of Crisis3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý218Media Theory and History3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý309Environmental Media3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý316Advanced Video Game History and Theory3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý317Art as Technology3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý320Media and the Arts3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý342Studies in Alternative Media3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý370The Experimental Tradition3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý389The Music Video3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý406Writing for Funding and Applications3.00
¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý416Material Media Studies: Things, Ecologies, Affects3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý209Critical Issues in Contemporary Popular Music3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý240Music of Video Games3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý257Theory of Digital Recording3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý258Musical Acoustics3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý482Performance in Times of Crisis3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý491Music and Mass Media3.00

Sound_Production_Options

¹ó±õ³¢²ÑÌý397Sound Techniques for Film and Video Productions3.00
²Ñ´¡±Ê±ÊÌý311Sound Production3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý156Introduction to Digital Audio Recording, Editing, and Mixing3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý157Amplified Sound in Live Contexts3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý158Sampling and Beatmaking3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý159Creative Production: Beats, Songs, and Soundtracks3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý254Composition in the Sonic Arts Studio3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý256Developing Sound Practices in the Sonic Arts Studio3.00
²Ñ±«³§°äÌý397Digital Scoring for Media3.00