Cinema Studies Courses
Key to Course Descriptions.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all INI Cinema Studies courses
are classified as HUMANITIES courses.
INI115Y1
Introduction to Film Study 26L, 52P, 26T
Introduction to film analysis; concepts of film style and narrative. Topics include documentary, avant-garde, genres, authorship, ideology, and representation.
INI212Y1
Film History 26L, 52P, 26T
An introduction to major phases of international film history from its origins to the present, including screenings and discussion of narrative films representative of film movements, technological innovations, and influential directors. Issues in the writing and reading of film history are examined.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI214Y1
Film Theory 26L, 52P, 26T
A study of select classical and contemporary film theories, their medium-specific arguments, and their cultural and intellectual contexts. Investigations include the nature of film theorizing, formalist and realist traditions, first and second film semiologies, apparatus theory, and debates specific to spectatorship and film viewing.
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI224Y1
Filmmakers: The Personal Vision (Formerly Authorship in Cinema) 52L,
52P
Close examination of the careers and works of four auteur directors in commercial film production. (Offered in alternate years)
INI225Y1
American Popular Film Since 1970 52L, 52P
Examination of the art of popular film in its social, political, and commercial contexts, through study of selected popular films from 1970 to the present. Various critical approaches, genres, and directors are included.
Exclusion: INI326Y1
INI322Y1
Avant-Garde and Experimental Film 52L, 52P
Film experimentation in the context of modern art and poetry (Cubism, Dada-Surrealism) from the 1920s through the 1990s. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI322H1
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI323Y1
Women and Representation 52L, 52P
Feminist film criticism from mid-sixties critiques of media stereotypes of women to current issues in feminist film theory. Films to be studied include mainstream narrative fiction and films by women directors: Von Sternberg, Godard, Sirk, Arzner, Dulac, Lupino, Von Trotta, Rainer, Akerman, Duras. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1/NEW260Y1
INI324Y1
American Filmmaking in the Studio 26L, 52P, 26T Era
A study of filmmaking in the US once the studio system was in place; consideration of industrial, economic, ideological, and aesthetic dimensions of the American studio era. Topics include the primacy of classicism, the operations of the studio system (including censorship, labour relations, marketing, and star promotion), and the cultural function of American films. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI325Y1
Documentary Film 52L, 52P
A critical survey of documentary practice including newsreels, direct cinema, cinema verité, ethnographic, and various hybrid narrative forms, with emphasis on the rhetorical, aesthetic, and political dimensions of “the art of record.” Topics include poetics, argument, and modes of address; evidence, authenticity, and persuasion; filmmaker/subject/audience nexus; historiography, hagiography, and memory; reflexive irony and performance. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI327Y1
Race and Representation 52L, 52P
Theories of cinematic representation emphasizing race, identity, and Diaspora, with an emphasis on post-colonial and critical race theories. Films include works from Africa and the black Diaspora, as well as selections from aboriginal and other diasporic communities. Films by Mambety, Julien, Dash, Cisse, Akomfrah, Moffat, Sembene. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI329Y1
Theories of Film Genres and Filmic Narration 26L, 52P, 26T
Study of theoretical and analytical models of film genres and narratology; structuralist, cognitive, and semiotic approaches to filmic narration. Genres to be studied include westerns, crime films, art cinema, fantasy, and horror. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI330Y1
Contemporary Film Theory: The Screen Revolution 52L, 52P
Film theory since the early 1970s. Topics include the critique of realism, suture, spectatorship, genre, the cinematic apparatus, race, and queer cinema. Films are screened as illustrations of the theoretical texts: Welles, Sirk, Godard, Duras, Potter, Ottinger, Julien. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI 425Y1, 481Y1
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI214Y1
INI374H1/
Problems in Film Authorship (I & II) 52L,
52P375H1
Advanced study of problems in film authorship through the intensive examination of one or more major filmmakers. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI380Y1
Contemporary World Cinema 52S
An intensive survey of world cinema since 1970, from Africa, Asia, Australia, South and North America, and Europe. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI381H1
Aspects of a National Cinema 52S
In-depth treatment of a national cinema in a seminar format. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI382H1
European Cinemas 26L, 26P
Comparative study of European film production and culture: inter-war and post-war developments; contemporary tendencies (co-production, continental unification, immigration). (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI382Y
INI383H1
The Origins of the Animation Industry, 1900-1950: A Technosocial History 26S, 26P
An introduction to early animation, considering its vaudeville roots, its industrialization, and its emerging aesthetics and representational tropes. Examination of the early corpus of animation from 1900-1950 and in-depth study of the artistic, social and cultural mileux from which animation derived. (Offered in alternate years)
Prerequisite: INI115Y1, INI212Y1.
INI384H1
Critical Writing on Film (formerly INI384Y1) 26S
The practice of film criticism with concentration on film reviews and scholarly articles. The study of examples of such work is the focus of the seminars supplemented by practical sessions involving process writing and collaborative editing. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI384Y1, NEW304Y1
Prerequisites: Any 2 courses from Group A (INI115Y1; INI212Y1; INI214Y1) and 2 additional Cinema Studies full course equivalents. (Offered in Alternate Years)
INI385Y1
Cinema in Canada 26L, 52P, 26T
Critical study of Canadian cinema from its inception to the present. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI385H1; NEW 311H1
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI386H1
Quebec Cinema (formerly INI486H1) 13L, 26P, 13T
The range of French-language filmmaking in Quebec within the context of efforts to establish a distinct national identity from the 1940s to the present day. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI486H1/NEW312H1
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
INI390Y1
Contemporary Chinese Cinemas 52L,
52P
Examination of contemporary Chinese films in their three production centres: the People’s Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Production, commercial and aesthetic trends, and international reception; major auteurs and genres. Directors include Chen Kaige, Zang Yimou, Edward Yang, John Woo, and Wang Kar-wai. (Offered in alternate years)
Exclusion: INI390H
Prerequisite: INI115Y1
Recommended preparation: INI212Y1, INI214Y1
INI396Y1/397H1/398H1
Special Topics in Cinema Studies TBA
Seminars in special topics designed for specialist and major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI423H1
Melodrama in Film 26S, 26P
Intensive study of theoretical issues raised by melodrama, including gender, class, and spectatorship; emotion and the non-representational. Psychoanalytical and historical factors shaping the “melodramatic imagination” are emphasized.
Exclusion: INI423Y1
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI426H1
Film Comedy 26S, 26P
A study of international film comedy, including its historical development, and the difficulties that comedy poses for genre and auteur approaches.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI428H1
The Cinematic City 26S, 26P
Film’s emergence from urban culture of the nineteenth century: the modern industrial city and the cinematic imagination between the world wars; the critical alignment of urbanism and the cinema.
Exclusion: INI321H1
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI460H1
Film Noir 26S, 26P
Consideration of film noir’s roots, its status as a genre, and its enduring appeal, the latter evidenced by continued critical interest and neo-noir offshoots.
Prerequisite: At least full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI461H1
Models of Film Analysis 26S, 26P
Advanced survey of a variety of approaches to the filmic text, including structuralist variants, textual analysis, and neo-formalism.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI462H1
Theory, History and German Cinema 26S, 26P
Historiographic and theoretical issues raised by German Cinema.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI463H1
Early Cinema 26S, 26P
Investigation of film from the beginnings of the medium until the advent of the feature film in the mid-teens: early cinema’s technological, formal, economic, and cultural dimensions; questions of audience composition, spectatorial address, and intermediality.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI465H1
Cinema and Technology (formerly INI483H1) 26S,
26P
How technology influences the operations and study of cinema. Includes technology’s relationship to realism, apparatus theory, and cinematic style; study of widescreen sound, colour, and emergent technologies.
Exclusion: INI483H1
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
INI476Y1/477H1/478H1
Independent Studies in Cinema TBA
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by Cinema Studies faculty. Open to advanced Specialist and Major students in the Program. Applications must be submitted to the Program Office by June 1 for a Fall course, by November 1 for a Spring Course, and by April 1 for a summer course.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of the Cinema Studies Committee
INI482Y1/483H1/484H1
Advanced Studies in Cinema TBA
Seminars in special topics designed for advanced specialist and major students in Cinema Studies.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents, including INI115Y1, INI212Y1, INI214Y1 or permission of instructor.
Urban Studies Courses
Key to Course Descriptions.
For Distribution Requirement purposes, all INI Urban Studies
courses are classified as SOCIAL SCIENCE courses.
INI235Y1
A Multidisciplinary Introduction to Urban Studies 52L
Explores the culture, thoughts, institutions, policies, and processes shaping our urban areas. Emphasis is placed on understanding the problems and prospects associated with growth and change in the city. Disciplines used to provide various interpretations include Economics, Environmental Studies, Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, Urban Design and Planning.
Prerequisite: Four courses with at least two from: ECO100Y1, ECO105Y1, GGR124Y1, a 100-level POL course or POL214Y1, SOC101Y1 or permission of the instructor
INI306Y1
Urban Experiential Learning in Toronto & the
GTA 78S
A method of studying city issues that combines readings, seminar discussions, and lectures with an internship in the office of a municipal politician, local government, or non-profit research/community organization. Readings focus on community development, urban planning, economic development and local government. Students must fill out a ballot for the course (available from the College Secretary) by June 30th. Enrolment in this course is competitive and at the discretion of Dr. Shauna Brail (Director, Urban Studies Placement Program).
Prerequisite: INI235Y1, enrolment in minor, major or specialist programs in Urban Studies or permission of instructor
 JIE307Y1
Urban Sustainability 52L,
26P (formerly INI307Y1)
This course critically examines the concept of urban sustainability in
theory and application. Case studies of ongoing urban sustainability programs
in the developed world help students assess the successes and failures of these
programs. The course also examines the current state of research and implementation
efforts toward urban sustainability.
Prerequisite: One of the following: JEG221Y/JIE222Y1 and enrolment in a Centre
for Environment program/INI235Y1/permission of the instructor (particularly
for students who have completed JEG222Y1/JIE222Y1/GGR233Y1/POL209Y1/SOC205Y1/260Y1)
Exclusion: INI 307Y1
This is a Social Science course
INI308H1
The City of Toronto 52L, 26P
Examines the struggle to create a civic society within Toronto as it becomes a global city. Sample topics include: the neighbourhood and the city, the outer city and the urban region, planning and sprawl, public and private transportation, the natural and the urban environment, housing and homelessness, levels of government, civic culture and multiculturalism.
Prerequisite: One of the following: a 100 level Political Science, GGR124Y1, INI235Y1, SOC101Y1, or permission of the instructor.
INI309H1
Urban Infrastructure 52L, 26P
Examines the importance of infrastructure to urban societies from a technical, environmental, political, historical, and social perspective. Students study energy and communications systems, transportation, water, solid waste disposal, parks and recreation facilities, schools, hospitals, and community facilities and services. Key issues include growth management, financing and maintenance, public-private partnerships, and international development.
Prerequisite: One of the following: INI235Y1 or permission of the instructor.
INI430Y1
Urban Policy Seminar 52S
Examines contemporary urban problems and policy issues through seminar discussions, readings and field research. Emphasis is placed on developing an interdisciplinary approach to urban problem solving.
Prerequisite: INI235Y1, enrolment in a minor, major or specialist program in Urban Studies, or permission of instructor.
INI431Y1/432H1/433H1
Special Topics in Urban Studies TBA
From time to time, the Urban Studies Program organizes community outreach and information sessions. At the discretion of the Director, students may enroll in a special topics course and investigate these issues more deeply under the supervision of an agreeable faculty member. Proposals including a letter from an agreeable faculty member should be submitted to the Director by June 1 for a Fall or Year-long course, or by November 1 for a Spring course.
Prerequisite: Enrolment in a major or specialist program in Urban Studies.
Recommended Preparation: INI235Y1, INI306Y1.
INI434Y1/435H1/436H1
Independent Research in Urban Studies TBA
Designed to allow strong students in the Major and Specialist programs to extend a piece of urban research under the supervision of a faculty member from any aligned departments. Choice of ‘H’ or ‘Y’ session pursuant to the scope of the research envisioned, the proposed supervisor’s assessment of depth of the inquiry, and the approval of the program director. Proposals including a letter from an agreeable supervisor should be submitted to the program director by June1 for a Fall or Year session course and by November 1 for a Spring session course.
Prerequisite: Enrolment in the Urban Studies Major or Specialist Program
Recommended Preparation: INI235Y1, INI306Y1
JGI216H1
Urbanization and Global Change 26L
Examines the process of globalization, mass urbanization and economic change taking place in cities around the world. Includes interdisciplinary exploration of the industrial and economic changes that have ensued as a result of globalization, as well as social and cultural manifestations associated with the emergence of global cities.
Recommended Preparation: GGR124Y1
JGI346H1
The Urban Planning Process 26L
Urban planning mechanisms, the legislation, and its goals. Planning issues from negotiation to legislation to appeal. Urban and regional problems facing planners in Ontario compared with those emerging in other provinces; Ontario’s legislative solutions contrasted with those developed elsewhere. (Given by the Department of Geography and Innis College)
Recommended Preparation: GGR124Y1
JGI454H1
The Role of the Planner: Making a Difference 26L
This course will focus on the role of a planning practitioner in contemporary society using a wealth of examples drawn from recent issues and debates in Canadian cities and regions. The course will walk students through the demands made of planners in terms of both technical expertise as well as political necessity and ask them to think actively about how to prepare for the extraordinary growth of cities during the next century. Examples of issues that will be discussed in some detail include the myths surrounding the city vs. the suburbs, the creativity and passion involved in planning work and the new City of Toronto Act.
Prerequisite: 15 credits, 5.0 of which must be GGR/INI Urban Studies
Writing and Rhetoric Courses
Key to Course Descriptions.
For Distribution
Requirement purposes, all Writing and Rhetoric
courses are classified as HUMANITIES courses, except for INI300Y1, INI301H1, INI304H1, INI405Y1/406H1/407H1,
and INI408Y1/409H1/410H1 which are classified as both HUMANITIES and SOCIAL SCIENCE courses.
INI203Y1
Foundations of Written Discourse 78S
Designed to teach students to write persuasively and to recognize persuasive strategies at work in writing they analyze. Assignments will range over a variety of modes, including professional and academic writing. Students who enrol in the course must demonstrate competence in the English language.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI204Y1
The Academic Writing Process 78S
The strategy necessary to write complete pieces of non-fictional prose, especially exposition and argument. Concepts of planning and organization include: focusing, research, outlining, patterns of logical development, introduction, paragraph development, conclusion, argumentation and persuasion, documentation, and revision. Students for whom English is a second language should have an advanced level of fluency in English before enrolling.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI300Y1
Strategic Writing: Theory and Practice 78S
Aims to teach students to recognize the rhetoric of the professional workplace and to communicate strategically and ethically using written and oral discourse appropriate to business, government, and not-for-profit organizations. Case study analysis using ethical reasoning models is a central component of the course.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI301H1
Contemporary Issues and Written Discourse:
Rhetoric and the Print Media 39S
Examines how the language and rhetoric of print media shape social issues. Rhetorical strategies at work in the media reporting of such controversial issues as the environment, the depiction of Aboriginal peoples and international crises are examined.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI304H1
The Illusion and the Reality of Evidence 26L
This seminar in critical reading, thinking, and analysis focuses on the nature, the evaluation, and the use and abuse of evidence in the process of formulating and supporting an argument. The case study method will be employed to assess the level of authority, credibility, and objectivity evident in public discourse, official sources, and academic inquiry.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI305H1
Modern Ekphrasis: Word and Image in the Twentieth Century 39S
Ekphrasis is the description and evocation of images in words. Modern Ekphrasis examines the concept and the practice in 20th-century writing. Course readings will include ekphrastic texts drawn from several disciplines and genres: journalism, informal essays, poetry, and scholarly writing.
Prerequisite: Completion of 4.0 full-course equivalents and CGPA of 2.3 or higher.
INI311Y1
Seminar in Creative Writing or Literary Translation 78S
A workshop course that requires directed reading and assigned work in addition to creative projects, and that gives student writers and literary translators an opportunity to learn from one another’s concerns and methods
Prerequisite: Ten full-course equivalents, fluency in English, submission of a manuscript, permission of instructor
INI405Y1/406H1/407H1
Independent Studies in Writing and
Rhetoric TBA
Independent research projects devised by students and supervised by the Writing and Rhetoricstaff. Open only to students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Critical Analysis. Applications should be submitted to the Program Director by June 1 for a Fall session course or by November 1 for a Spring session course.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents including INI203Y1 or INI204Y1 and INI300Y1 or INI301H1 or INI304H1 or INI305H1 or INI311Y1; permission of Program Director
INI408Y1/409H1/410H1
Special Topics in Writing
and Rhetoric TBA
Seminars in special topics designed for students who are completing the Minor Program in Writing, Rhetoric, and Critical Analysis.
Prerequisite: At least ten full-course equivalents including INI203Y1 or INI204Y1 and INI300Y1 or INI301H1 or INI304H1 or INI305H1 or INI311Y1; or permission of instructor
INI412Y1
Prose Style Across Genres 39L, 39S
Focuses on methods for analyzing how various aspects of style shape the meaning of texts in such genres as fiction,
biography, oratory, legal argument, science writing, and government reports. Also considers historical and theoretical
perspectives on style. Requires a research project, which for qualified students may include a translation.
Prerequisite: 10 full course equivalents; CGPA of 2.3 or higher
Recommended Preparation: INI203Y1 or INI204Y1
Other Innis College Courses
INI299Y1
Research Opportunity Program
Credit course for supervised participation in faculty research project. See page 45 for details.
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