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Upcoming courses

Course Offerings for the 2025 - 2026 Academic Year

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Although we do our best to plan our course offerings there are instances where a course may be changed or cancelled. Please refer to the official timetable when planning your semester.

Anthropology

Upcoming Courses

Fall 2025

Winter 2026

Summer 2026
100-Level Courses  
ANTH 102 - Culture and Society ✓ ✓ ✓
ANTH 111 - First Nations of British Columbia--Traditional Cultures ✓ ✓ ✓
ANTH 130 - Religions and Cultures ✓ ✓ X
200-Level Courses  
ANTH 202 - Ethnographic Toolkit X X X
ANTH 210 - Gender and Sexuality across Cultures X X X
ANTH 220 - Anthropology of Globalization and Development (also listed as GDS 220) X X X
ANTH 235 -  Intercultural Relations X ✓ X
ANTH 260 - Food for Thought: Food, Culture and Society (also listed as SOC 260) ✓ X X
ANTH 270 - Dynamics of Racism in Canada (also listed as MACS/SOC 270) X ✓ X
ANTH 275 - Fantastic and Speculative Worlds ✓ X X
ANTH 299 - Special Topics I: To be decided X X X
300-Level Courses
ANTH 301 - Theoretical Currents in Contemporary Anthropology X X X
ANTH 360 - Eating and Thinking: Food, Identity, & Power in Global Societies (also listed as SOC 360) X X X
ANTH 363 - Processes of Development and Underdevelopment: Latin America (also listed as SOC/LAS/GDS 363) X ✓ X
ANTH 367 - Culture and Theory of Diaspora (also listed as ENGL 367) X X X
ANTH 368 - Power, Inequity, and the Environment (also listed as SOC 368) X ✓ X
ANTH 375 - Indian Mediascapes (also listed as MACS 375) X ✓ X
ANTH 388 - Minority Indigenous Peoples of the World (also listed as SOC388) X X X
ANTH 399 - Special Topics X X X
ANTH 470E - Special Topics: Ethnicity, Race & Nationalism ✓ X X

 

Media and Communications Studies

Upcoming Courses

Fall 2025

Winter 2026

Summer 2026
100-Level Courses  
MACS 110 - Introduction to Communication Studies ✓ ✓ ✓
MACS 130 - Introduction to Digital Media and Communications ✓ ✓ ✓
200-Level Courses  
MACS 201 - Popular Music and Society ✓ ✓ ✓
MACS 210 - History of Communication ✓ X X
MACS 215 - Advertising as Social Communication X ✓ X
MACS 221 - Media and Popular Cultures X ✓ X
MACS 230 - Cultural Industries in Canada X ✓ X
MACS 235 - Introduction to Journalism in Canada (also listed as JRNL 235) ✓ X X
MACS 240 - Media, Money and Power X ✓ X
MACS 255 - Introduction to Social Research (also listed as SOC 255) ✓ X X
MACS 266 - Screen Horrors: Monsters, Entities, and Slashers ✓ X X
MACS 270 - Dynamics of Racism in Canada (also listed as ANTH/SOC 270) X ✓ X
MACS 285 - Screen Studies: Television and Digital Platforms ✓ ✓ X
MACS 299E - Special Topics I: Media and Images of the Body  X X ✓
MACS 299L - Special Topics I: Conspiracy Theories X ✓ X
MACS 299M - Special Topics I: Big Data ✓ X ✓
MACS 299N - Special Topics I: Storytelling, Photography & Resistance X X X
MACS 299O - Special Topics I: Gender and Media ✓ X X
MACS 299Q - Special Topics I: Looking at Visual Culture X ✓ X
300-Level Courses
MACS 324 - Sport, Media, and Culture ✓ X X
MACS 334 - Cultural Policy in Canada (also listed as SOC 334) ✓ X X
MACS 337 - Taste and Culture (also listed as SOC 337) X ✓ X
MACS 355 - Quantitative Research Methods (also listed as SOC 355) ✓ X X
MACS 356 - Qualitative Research Methods (also listed as ANTH/SOC 356) X ✓ X
MACS 364 - Rules of Play: The Cultural Significance of Video Games X ✓ X
MACS 369 - Media Law and Ethics (also listed as JRNL 369) X ✓ X
MACS 375 - Indian Mediascapes (also listed as ANTH 375) X ✓ X
MACS 385 - Television and Social Values: The Simpsons (also listed as SOC 385) X X X
MACS 399E - Special Topics II: Media and Masculinities X
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MACS 399Q - Special Topics II: Media and Emotion X
 X ✓
MACS 399R - Special Topics II: Decolonizing Media and Communication ✓ X X
400-Level Courses  
MACS 460 - Issues in the Information Society (also listed as SOC 460) X ✓ X

Sociology

Upcoming Courses

Fall 2025

Winter 2026

Summer 2026
100-Level Courses  
SOC 101 - Introductory Sociology ✓ ✓ ✓
200-Level Courses  
SOC 200 - Social Issues in Latin America (also listed as LAS 200) X X X
SOC 201 - Key Ideas in Sociology ✓ ✓ ✓
SOC 205 - Comparative Societies ✓ X ✓
SOC 210 - Social Problems of Canadian Society X ✓ X
SOC 220 - Sociology of Women in Canada X ✓ X
SOC 230 - The Individual & Society ✓ X X
SOC 245 - Deviant Behaviour X ✓ X
SOC 247 - Culture of Capitalism X ✓ X
SOC 250 - Sociology of Development ✓ X X
SOC 254 - Writing for the Social Sciences X ✓ ✓
SOC 255 - Introduction to Social Research (also listed as MACS 255) ✓ X X
SOC 260 - Food for Thought: Food, Culture, and Society (also listed as ANTH 260) ✓ X X
SOC 265 - Social Inequality X ✓ X
SOC 270 - Dynamics of Racism in Canada (also listed as MACS/ANTH 270) X ✓ X
SOC 275 - Sociology of Death and Dying X X X
SOC 280 - Health and Illness ✓ X X
SOC 289 - Sociology of Animals in Western Society X ✓ X
SOC 299P - Special Topics I: Alcohol and Culture ✓ X X
SOC 299X - Special Topics I: Sociology of Happiness and Wellbeing ✓ X X
SOC 299Y - Special Topics I: Urban Life X
 X ✓
300-Level Courses
SOC 313 - Agriculture and Rural Life X X X
SOC 330 - Culture and Cognition ✓ X X
SOC 331 - Sociology of Families ✓ ✓ X
SOC 333 - Schooling and Society X X ✓
SOC 334 - Cultural Policy in Canada (also listed as MACS 334) ✓ X X
SOC 335 - Gender Relations and Social Issues ✓ X X
SOC 337 - Taste and Culture (also listed as MACS 337) X ✓ X
SOC 346 - Environmental Justice X X X
SOC 348 - Social Movements X ✓ X
SOC 350 - Classical Sociological Thought ✓ X X
SOC 352 - Public Policy Analysis X ✓ X
SOC 353 - Program Evaluations X X X
SOC 355 - Quantitative Research Methods (also listed as MACS 355) ✓ X X
SOC 356 - Qualitative Research Methods (also listed as MACS 356) X ✓ X
SOC 360 - Eating and Thinking: Food, Identity, & Power in Global Societies (also listed as ANTH 360) X X X
SOC 363 - Processes of Development and Underdevelopment: Latin America X ✓ X
SOC 368 - Environment and Society (also listed as ANTH 368) X ✓ X
SOC 385 - Television and Social Values: The Simpsons (also listed as MACS 385) X X X
SOC 388 - Minority Indigenous Peoples of the World (also listed as ANTHS 388) X X X
SOC 399K - Special Topics II: Work & Occupations X X ✓
SOC 399W - Special Topics II: Fear and Social Anxieties X X
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SOC 399X - Special Topics II: Women, Violence, & True Crime X
 ✓ X
SOC 399Y - Special Topics II: Feminist Media Studies ✓ X X
400-Level Courses  
SOC 430 - Knowledge, Power, Science & Society X X X
SOC 431H - Advanced Topics in Childhood & Family: Intimate Relations ✓ X X
SOC 435 - Sociology of Sexuality X X X
SOC 445 - Advanced Topics in Deviant Behaviour ✓ X X
SOC 460 - Issues in the Information Society (also listed as MACS 460) X ✓ X
SOC 470E - Special Topics II: Ethnicity, Race & Nationalism ✓ X X
SOC 475 - Communities, Difference, and Belonging X ✓ X

Women's Studies

Upcoming Courses

Fall 2025

Winter 2026

Summer 2026
100-Level Courses  
WMST 101 - Introduction to Women's Studies I X X X

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