Graduate Electives
Graduate elective courses open to all students at The Creative School for the current term can be found below.
- This list is updated at the start of each term.
- Courses are offered subject to faculty availability and are subject to change without notice.
- Preference will be given to students enrolled in the program offering the course.
How to request enrollment
- Review available courses below and identify the course you are interested in.
- Reach out to your Supervisor/Advisor and Program Director to get permission to take the course for credit in your program.
- Complete the (PDF file) Course Substitution form (opens in new window) , it must be signed by your Supervisor/Advisor* and Program Director.
- Complete the Enrollment Request Form (link below) and submit the signed Course Substitution form**.
*If you don't have a Supervisor/Advisor, your Program Director can sign on behalf of both.
** Submit one form per course request.
Deadline to submit a request for Fall 2026: September 4, 2026 (noon)
The Admin team will review your enrollment request, and confirm via email.
It may not be possible to accommodate late requests.
Note: Enrollment for student taking electives outside of their program will begin August 24, 2026.
Courses Requiring Special Permission
For any courses listed with a note "Permission to enroll required", please complete the submission process and submit the enrollment request.
Then the program office will contact you with instructions about additional requirements after August 24.
Communication & Culture courses require an additional step to enroll
(ie: CC8849, CC8960, CC8921, CC8828, CC8836, CC8838)
- Complete the Course Substitution form (same as above).
- Submit the Enrollment request form (same as above).
- Your request will be reviewed and you will be contacted via email about next steps.
Course Descriptions
Unless shown below, course descriptions can be found in the YSGPS calendar.
For your convenience, the links to each graduate program calendar at The Creative School are listed below.
Special Topic courses - Course Descriptions
DG8010 Selected Topics in Digital Media:
Podcast Laboratory
This course offers students the opportunity to conceptualize, collaborate, and create a podcast in 12 weeks. Students will actively explore strategies to create compelling show ideas, considering format, frequency, distribution, and marketing. Students will utilize frameworks to deeply understand an audience, as well as craft creative assets that support the podcast鈥檚 content. Various high tech and low tech tools and techniques will be explored.

DG8010 Selected Topics in Digital Media:
Design Fabrication
This master's-level course offers an in-depth exploration of digital/analog fabrication techniques and craft with a dual focus on additive and subtractive processes. Students will learn about the theory of making and gain hands-on experience with a wide range of fabrication tools, including 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cutting, flatbed UV printing, and traditional woodworking and metalworking techniques. Through project-based learning, participants will investigate the material, technical, and formal implications of each method, developing a critical understanding of their potential, limitations, and operational order. Emphasis will be placed on craft, material behaviour, machine calibration/tolerances, and hybrid fabrication strategies that integrate both additive and subtractive techniques.
The course encourages experimental approaches while grounding students in industry-relevant practices. Students will be expected to produce a series of components that culminate in a final assembly, demonstrating their ability to synthesize digital design with advanced fabrication methods.
DM8301 Adv Topics in Doc Media:
Documentary Futures: Worldmaking as Inquiry
This experimental studio course explores documentary as a practice of worldmaking. Through a series of interdisciplinary studio projects, students investigate documentary as a process of translation using images, objects, writing, and material practices, examining how these forms mediate knowledge, memory, and lived experience. Emphasizing experimentation, critical reflection, and iteration, the course expands documentary practice beyond conventional forms to explore how artistic practice can question dominant narratives, interrupt the archive, and imagine alternative futures.

FS8111 Special Topics Fashion Studies:
Re-Dressing Crime: Topics in Media Culture
To Sherlock Holmes, a stained cuff, battered hat, or scratched pocket watch miraculously revealed inner secrets and irrefutably proved guilt or innocence. Today, many television series depict forensic experts identifying victims or convicting criminals based on a few threads, a single footprint, or a bloodstained shirt. Sometimes clothing is the most important clue in a criminal case, yet dress and accessories play a much more complex role in crime and the criminalization of the body than these examples suggest. This course is based around my research project in progress called 鈥淔abric of Crime: Forensic Histories of Fashion鈥 which looks at clothing as evidence, weapon and disguise. We will explore the themes and issues listed in the course description creatively, historically and theoretically through the lens of crime and clothing. Students will have a chance to present their critical/creative work at a public event that we will plan together as part of the course.

FS8111 Special Topics Fashion Studies:
Indigenouse Craft
Course Description will be added here shortly.

MP8120 Spec Tpcs: Interdisciplinary :
Exploring Virtual Environments
This course surveys the application of game engines for the creation of virtual environments both in a studio context and on screen. Students will be introduced to important issues relating to the experience of virtual spaces through evaluation of creative projects, products and related research. Students will learn to manipulate visual scripts or blueprints, model and animate objects, create environments and terrains, design interactions, manage assets and rendering.

Links to Graduate Programs Calendar
Program Contact Information
Communication & Culture (MA, PhD)
Digital Media MDM
Documentary Media MFA
Fashion MA
Film + Photography Preservation
and Collections Management
Post-Professional Master of Interior Design
Journalism MJ
Media & Design Innovation Phd
Media Production MA
Professional Communication MPC
Scriptwriting & Story Design MFA
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