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Material Culture and Semiotics program requirements

What the Material Culture and Semiotics Minor requires, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course it names.

Material Culture and Semiotics Minor

  • Arts program
  • 4.0 credits
  • Open enrolment
  • ASMIN2731

Enrolment

This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.

Completion requirements

(4.0 credits, no more than 1.0 credit at the 100-level, and at least 1.0 credit at the 300+ level)

1MCS225Y1

2MCS223H1, MCS224H1

30.5 credit from MCS226H1, MCS320H1, MCS322H1, MCS323H1, MCS325H1, MCS326H1, MCS327H1, MCS328H1, MCS330H1, MCS331H1, MCS336H1, MCS373H1

41.0 credit from the following options: MCS329H1/ MCS329Y1; courses listed in requirement 3 not already taken; VIC109H1, VIC163H1, VIC184H1, VIC198H1, VIC199H1, VIC246H1; or cognate courses listed below

5MCS429H1/ MCS444H1

Cognate courses: ANT412H1, ANT457H1, ARH309H1, CLA389H1, EAS219H1, EAS297H1, EAS354H1, EAS406Y1, EAS412H1, FAH205H1, FAH319H1, FAH338H1, FAH353H1, FAH370H1, FAH436H1, FAH463H1, FAH483H1, FAH484H1, HIS302H1, HIS358H1, HIS484H1, HPS202H1, HPS401H1, HPS430H1, NMC264H1, NMC394H1, NMC464H1, RLG236H1, RLG307H1, BMS387H1, VIC119H1

Courses these requirements name

  • MCS225Y1A History of the World in Objects and Signs
  • MCS223H1Signs, Meanings, and Culture
  • MCS224H1Approaches to Material Culture
  • MCS226H1The Materiality of Magic: Sorcery, Spells, Devotion, and Divination
  • MCS320H1Semiotics of Visual Art
  • MCS322H1Topics in Semiotics
  • MCS323H1Theories of the Sign
  • MCS325H1Media Semiotics
  • MCS326H1The Material Culture of Food
  • MCS327H1Digital Material Culture
  • MCS328H1Materializing Cultural Identities
  • MCS330H1Topics in Material Culture
  • MCS331H1The Materiality of Information
  • MCS336H1Material Culture of Wine
  • MCS373H1Materialities of Music
  • MCS329H1Practicum in Material Culture
  • MCS329Y1Practicum in Material Culture
  • VIC109H1Innovators and Their Ideas
  • VIC163H1Cultural Forms and Their Meanings: People and Ideas
  • VIC184H1Individuals and the Public Sphere: History, Historiography and Making Cultural Memory
  • VIC198H1Posters and Propaganda
  • VIC199H1The Secret Life of Objects: Analyzing the Culture of Things
  • VIC246H1Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, Monster last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • MCS429H1Advanced Topics in Material Culture, Information Systems and Meaning-Making
  • MCS444H1Themes in Material Culture
  • ANT412H1Historical Archaeology
  • ANT457H1Anthropology of Material Culture last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
  • ARH309H1Archaeology, Ethics, and the Public
  • CLA389H1Classical Spaces: Sites and Monuments
  • EAS219H1Cultural History of Food & Drink in East Asia
  • EAS297H1Texts, Images and Objects in East Asia
  • EAS354H1Body, Movement, Japan
  • EAS406Y1Thinking about Things: Material Culture in East Asia last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • EAS412H1Technology and Material Cultures of Ancient China
  • FAH205H1Clay: A Material and Visual History
  • FAH319H1Illuminated Manuscripts
  • FAH338H1Art and Consumers in the Renaissance (1400-1700)
  • FAH353H1On Display: Cultures of Exhibition, 1789-1900
  • FAH370H1European Renaissance Architecture
  • FAH436H1Italian Renaissance Art, Fashion, and Material Culture
  • FAH463H1Materiality, Objecthood, Connoisseurship and Collecting in the Arts of East Asia
  • FAH483H1Introduction to Conservation: Materials, Deterioration, and Preservation in Art and Material Culture
  • FAH484H1Fashion & Textiles: Culture & Consumption
  • HIS302H1Material Culture in Victorian Britain
  • HIS358H1Canadian History in 100 Objects
  • HIS484H1The Car in North American History
  • HPS202H1Technology in the Modern World
  • HPS401H1Scientific Artifacts
  • HPS430H1History of Technology
  • NMC264H1The Archaeology of Stuff
  • NMC394H1Persianate Art and Architecture last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • NMC464H1The Archaeology of Stuff at the ROM last in the 2025-2026 Calendar
  • RLG236H1Material Religion
  • RLG307H1Museums and Material Religion
  • BMS387H1Advertising and Media
  • VIC119H1Myths and Legends in Modern Contexts
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