Programs in ICCC
The ICCC provides a home for new interdisciplinary programs in the fine arts and humanities.
Criteria for Proposed Initiatives
The ICCC fosters, personifies, and celebrates culture and creativity as broadly defined through interdisciplinary programming and research anchored within and reaching beyond the humanities and fine arts disciplines.
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Digital Culture and New Media Minor
Digital technologies increasingly influence cultural, literary and artistic productions, as well as personal and political freedoms. The Minor in Digital Culture & New Media will help you develop the technical and critical skills necessary to understand, participate in, and evaluate digital communications and creative expression. This interdisciplinary minor includes a course in digital methods (graphic design, web design, digital movies), as well as relevant courses in Art, Computer Science, English, and Sociology, to provide you with the foundations of the history, theory and practice of new media and global communications.
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INTS 201.3: Dynamics of Community Involvement
This community service-learning (CSL) course introduces students to local community issues and organizations, exploring concepts related to community involvement in Saskatoon and beyond. The course combines traditional in-class learning with experiential, hands-on learning in the community. Students will spend two hours per week in the classroom and will be placed with a local community-based organization for an additional two hours per week, except during Alternative Reading Week (ARW) in February, when they will participate in ARW activities. In lieu of a final exam, students will have the opportunity to work with University and community partners on a community project. This course is applicable to many disciplines and fields of study, and students will be encouraged to make links between their own academic interests and the course material.
Students must register in the Alternative Reading Week program before registering in INTS 201.3. Please visit http://www.usask.ca/ulc/arw for more information and to register!
MFA in Writing
Writing creatively has strong roots and burgeoning prospects in Saskatchewan. Members of the province’s writing community have worked with faculty in Humanities and Fine Arts to propose a new MFA in Writing.
Students in this two-year MFA will practice writing in a variety of forms, from longer and shorter poems and fiction, for instance, to biography and science-writing.
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Women’s and Gender Studies
Women’s and Gender Studies is an interdisciplinary program that explores gender and sexual diversity, masculinities and queer studies, practices of representation and cultural production, popular culture, and critical transnational feminisms. Drawing on innovative conceptual frameworks and interdisciplinary methodologies, our undergraduate curriculum addresses intersections of embodiment, identity, community and knowledge politics in arenas that span the intimate and the international.
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INCC 801.0 – Reading French
To conduct research, graduate students in the Humanities and Fine Arts need to have the skills to find, read, and translate sources not available in English. Reading French enables students to fulfill their language requirement in an efficient and meaningful way, strengthening research capabilities while acquiring French reading skills in a classroom environment. This course acknowledges the status of French in Canada—not least as a language of research in the arts—and helps usher students into an international community of scholarship.
Spectacle: Practices in Art & Drama (Drama & Art 398.3 Special Topics)
Taught by Alison Norlen (Art & Art History) and Natasha Martina (Drama), this interdisciplinary studio course gave students the opportunity to examine elements of performance and representation through puppets, masks, costumes, floats and sculpture. Spectacle began with an intensive residency at Emma Lake Kenderdine Campus (August 2009) and ended with an outdoor even on the main campus and an installation at the Gordon Snelgrove Gallery (November 2009).
Edson Campos Noqueira, a celebrated designer of floats for Rio’s Carnivale, and Shauna McCabe, a Canada Research Chair in Critical Theory in the Interpretation of Culture at Mt. Allison University, were invited to speak on campus in conjunction with the course.
