Program Structure
Please follow the program structure outlined in the Academic Calendar from your FIRST academic year as a student at St. Thomas University. Find the Academic Calendars HERE. If you have any questions, please contact your academic advisor.
Interdisciplinary Major
An Interdisciplinary Major is a course of study which consists of 36 credit hours of course work beyond the 1000 level cutting across disciplinary lines but related program by a clear theme or unifying principle. Students who plan to graduate with an interdisciplinary Major degree must meet with the Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies to identify learning goals and then compose a preliminary course of study with which to approach a potential Program Director. With their Program Directors, students will refine their course of study—their program—in a written proposal. The proposal must indicate:
- the professor who has agreed to serve as Program Director,
- two additional professors who have agreed to serve with the Program Director on an advisory committee, and
- the proposed programme, identified by course numbers and titles.
Final approval of each proposed program will rest with the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee. Normally, approval of the program will be sought by the end of the student's second year. Exceptionally, proposals may be entertained as late as the end of the third year. The Coordinator with the Program Director will monitor the student’s interdisciplinary course of study at regular intervals during the third and fourth years. Accordingly, the Coordinator will present a written report on the student's progress to the Dean of Faculty and the Registrar at the end of the student's third year and at the end of the first and second semesters of the last year.
The decision to award an Interdisciplinary Major degree will be made by recommendation of the student's advisory committee.
Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts
The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts (DIGM) is open to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Arts program. It is designed for students interested in studying digital media and engaging in creation in the digital arts. The Major will allow students to explore the relationship between digital media, the arts, and society. It consists of 36 credit hours, including at least 30 credit hours beyond the 1000 level, in courses designated as Digital Media and Creative Arts, listed below. There are four mandatory Interdisciplinary DIGM courses, as follows:
DIGM 2013 Digital Media Creation
DIGM 2023 Digital Media Production
DIGM 3013 Digital Photography
DIGM 3023 Documentary Film: Creation and Production
For the purposes of completing the requirements for this Interdisciplinary Major, no more than 18 credit hours may be from one discipline. The Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts is housed in the Department of Journalism and Communications. Students who wish to pursue a BA in the Interdisciplinary Major in Digital Media and Creative Arts should consult with the Director of the program.
Approved Electives*
*Other courses may be approved by program faculty advisors
ANTH 3693 Media Anthropology
COPP 1013 Introduction to Communications
COPP 2023 Policy Making in the Information Age (POLS 2333)
COPP 3033 Public Policy and the Media (POLS 3213)
COPP 3043 Business Communications and Marketing
CRIM 3263 Crime and the Media
CRIM 3273 Crime in Popular Film
ENGL 1203 Introduction to Film Studies
ENGL 1233 Digital Literacy
ENGL 2113 Creative Writing: Skills
ENGL 2123 Creative Writing: Strategies
ENGL 2163 Envisioning Environmental End Times
ENGL 2213 Acting and Theatre Production I
ENGL 2223 The Page and the Screen
ENGL 2233 Acting and Theatre Production II
ENGL-2253 e-lit: Digitally Born Literature
ENGL-2393 Literature, Technology, and Culture
ENGL 2523 The Study of Drama: An Introduction
ENGL 2693 Reading Popular Culture
ENGL 2723 Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative I
ENGL 3163 Queer Medias and Mediating Queer
ENGL 3213 Art Cinema
ENGL 3216 Advance Acting and Theatre Production
ENGL 3223 Auteur Cinema
ENGL 3233 Digital Projects and Digital Reading
ENGL 3243 Race and Media
ENGL 3483 Irish Film
ENVS 3213 Media and Politics in Canada
FNAR 2113 Visual Art and Aesthetic Literacy
FNAR 2763 Film Production
FNAR 2963 Acting for Film and TV
FNAR 3613 Music in Film and TV
GERO 3093 Images of Aging in Film
GRBK 2206 Human Nature and Technology (HMRT 2216)
GRBK 3406 Philosophy and Art
HIST 1783 Screening History
HIST 3603 Disney and World History
HMRT 2216 Human Nature and Technology (GRBK 2206)
HMRT 3153 Popular Culture and Human Rights
HMRT 3203 Human Rights Advocacy through Social Media
JOUR 1113 Fundamentals of Effective Writing
JOUR 2033 Local Reporting, Global Media
JOUR 2063 Media Ethics and the Law
JOUR 2113 The Toolbox 1: New Media
JOUR 2123 The Toolbox 2: Mobile Media
JOUR 3013 Through the Lens
JOUR 3023 Radio and Podcasting
JOUR 3143 Documentary
JOUR 3153 Digital Journalism
JOUR 3163 New Media and Social Change (COPP)
JOUR 3173 Interviewing and the Art of the Inquiry
NATI 2703 Invented Traditions
NATI 3333 Colonial Cartography and Indigenous Nations
PSYC 4253 Psychology, the Internet, and the Digital World
RELG 3583 Media and Ethics
SOCI 2323 Sociology for Cyborgs: The Social Organization of the Internet
SOCI 2513 Sociology of Communication
SOCI 3573 Sociology of Art and Culture
Interdisciplinary Honours
Interdisciplinary Honours is a programme consisting of a 57 credit hour course of study, as follows:
- 48 credit hours of course work beyond the 1000 level cutting across disciplinary lines but related by a clear theme or unifying principle, and of which 6 credit hours must be in theory or methods;
- completion of a 3 credit hour Honours thesis seminar or workshop; and
- successful completion of a 6 credit hour interdisciplinary Honours thesis.
Students who plan to graduate with an Interdisciplinary Honours degree must meet with the Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies to identify learning goals and then compose a preliminary course of study with which to approach a potential Program Director. With their Program Directors, students will refine their course of study—their program—in a written proposal.
The proposal must indicate:
- the professor who has agreed to serve as Program Director,
- two additional professors who have agreed to serve with the Program Director on an advisory and thesis evaluation committee, and
- the proposed program identified by course numbers and titles.
Final approval of each proposed program will rest with the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee. Normally, approval of the program will be sought by the end of the student’s second year. Exceptionally, proposals may be entertained as late as the beginning of the Spring Registration prior to the beginning of the student's final year of study. Applications will not be considered after the beginning of the student's final year of study. The thesis will be consistent with the approved aims of the student's program, and it will be supervised by the Program Director. The thesis will require the approval of the student’s thesis evaluation committee made up of the Program Director and at least two additional professors chosen by the student and the Program Director. A minimum grade of B must be attained for the thesis to count as an Honours credit.
The Coordinator with the Program Director and the student's advisory and thesis evaluation committee will monitor a student’s interdisciplinary Honours course of study at regular intervals during the third and fourth years. Accordingly, the Coordinator will report in writing present a written report on the student’s progress to the Interdisciplinary Studies Committee at the end of the student’s third year and at the end of the first and second semesters of the last year.
The decision to award an Interdisciplinary Honours degree will be made by recommendation of the student's advisory and thesis evaluation committee.
Interdisciplinary Minor
An interdisciplinary Minor is a pre-approved course of study which consists of 18 credit hours of course work beyond the 1000 level cutting across disciplinary lines but related by a clear theme or unifying principle. Approved combinations of courses follow:
Business Studies
A minor in Business Studies consists of 18 credit hours in Business courses including:
Introduction to Business (BUSI 2013) 3 credit hours
Introduction to Economics (ECON 1013 and 1023) 6 credit hours in total (3 credit hours per course)
9 credit hours chosen from:
BUSI 2023 Introduction to Financial Accounting
BUSI 3013 Personal Financial Planning
BUSI 3023 Nonprofit Management
BUSI 3033 Labour Relations and Collective Bargaining (cross-listed as ECON 3033)
BUSI 3513 Introduction to Industrial and Organization Psychology (cross-listed as PSYC 3533)
Or from any of the UNB courses listed under “Major in Economics with a Business Option” in the Department of Economics section of the Academic Calendar.
Ethics
18 credit hours including courses from at least two disciplines, drawn from the following list:
HMRT 3033 Philosophy of Human Rights
PHIL 2213 Introduction to Moral Philosophy
PHIL 2233 Contemporary Moral Philosophy
PHIIL 2243 Current Issue in Ethics
RELG 2513 Foundation of Christian Ethics
RELG 3573 Religion and Social Ethics
RELG 3593 Moral Development
RELG 3513 Bioethics
RELG 3583 Media Ethics
Film Studies
18 credit hours, drawing on at least two different disciplines, from the following list:
ENGL 2723 Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative I
ENGL 2733 Fiction, Drama, and Film: A Study of Narrative II
ENGL 3213 Art Cinema
ENGL 3223 Auteur Cinema
ENGL 3483 Irish Film I
IRSH 3693/ENGL 3473 Irish Film II
GERO 3093 Images of Aging in Film
HIST 3783 Film and History
Irish Studies
18 credit hours including courses from at least two disciplines, drawn from the following list:
IRSH 2006 Introduction to Irish Studies
IRSH 2113 Visualizing Irish Culture through the Arts
IRSH 2173 Irish Language 1
IRSH 2183 Irish Language 2
IRSH 2193 Themes in the Cultural History of Ireland
IRSH 3213 Lines of Vision - Landscape, Art and Irish Writing
ENGL 2463 Irish Literature
ENGL 3423 Modern Irish Drama
ENGL 3483 Irish Film 1
ENGL 3473 Irish Film 2
Latin American Studies
18 credit hours, drawing on at least two different disciplines, from the following list:
ECON 3333 Perspectives on Underdevelopment
HIST 2613 Latin America: Colonial Period
HIST 2623 Latin America: Modern Period
HIST 3613 Gender and Power in Latin American History
HIST 4606 20th Century Latin America
SPAN 4213 Mexico Online! I
SPAN 4223 Mexico Online! II
SPAN 4813 Spanish-American Literature: Colonial to Modern
SPAN 4823 Spanish-American Literature: Modernism to Present
Medieval Studies
18 credit hours, drawing on at least two different disciplines from the following list:
ENGL 2643 Medieval Drama
ENGL 3306 Middle English Literature
ENGL 3396 Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Language and Literature
HIST 3213 The Early Church
HIST 3223 The Medieval Church
HIST 3543 Religion and the Church in Early Russia
HIST 4206 Medieval Institutions
PHIL 2133 Medieval Christian Philosophy I
PHIL 2143 Medieval Christian Philosophy II
PHIL 3523 St. Thomas: Knowledge, Being and Human Being
PHIL 3533 St. Thomas: Law, Morality and Society