Program: Combined Honours in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory and Another Subject (B.A.) - McMaster University

Apr 04, 2025

Undergraduate Calendar 2013-2014

Students who entered the program prior to September 2013 should refer to their degree audits or contact an Academic Advisor in the Humanities Advising Office to discuss their program requirements.

Cultural Studies and Critical Theory (CSCT) provides students with an opportunity to investigate the texts, practices, theories and concepts that animate modern individual and social experience. CSCT examines a wide range of cultural forms, including those that have been typically overlooked in universities (e.g. television, popular film and fiction, and practices of everyday life), while paying attention to topics such as gender, sexuality and the body, class, race and ethnicity, postcolonialism, subjectivity and representation, ideology and power/knowledge, aesthetics and taste, and technology and culture.

Students wishing to enter this program must complete an application for admission to Level II on MUGSI in mid-March to be considered for admission.

Admission

Completion of any Level I program and a Cumulative Average of at least 5.0 including a grade of at least C in CSCT 1CS3 or ENGLISH 1CS3 . For continuation in the program, see the section on Minimum Requirements for Entering and Continuing in a Program Beyond Level I, here .

Notes

When registering, students should distribute their required Cultural Studies and Critical Theory courses (See Requirements below) as follows:

Level II: CSCT 2M06 ; 6 units of Levels II and/or III Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Level III: 12 units of Levels II and/or III Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Level IV: 6 units of Levels II and/or III Cultural Studies and Critical Theory; 6 units of Level IV Cultural Studies and Critical Theory seminars (No student may take more than 6 units of Level IV seminars.)

With permission of the Department, students may substitute CSCT 4X03 for three units of Level IV seminar work in second term. Students who are interested in taking CSCT 4X03 should contact the faculty member chairing the CSCT 4X03 committee early in the first term of Level IV.
With permission of the Department students may enrol in CSCT 4Y06 in Level IV. Invitations to apply for CSCT 4Y06 will be circulated to students in the second term of Level III.
Most graduate programs in Cultural Studies and/or Critical Theory require proficiency in a second language. Students who plan to pursue graduate studies in these areas are strongly encouraged to include in their program a second language beyond the introductory level.

Core Course List

Requirements

120 units total (Levels I to IV), of which 48 units may be Level I

30 units

from the Level I program completed prior to admission into the program

6 units

CSCT 2M06 - Concepts of Culture

18 units

from

Core Course List

6 units

Levels II or III Cultural Studies and Critical Theory

6 units

Level IV Cultural Studies and Critical Theory seminars

36 units

Courses specified for the other subject. (Combinations with Social Sciences may require more than 36 units.)

18 units

Electives to total 120 units