Elective courses
All students may register for any of the elective courses listed below, including those offered by the Interdisciplinary Studies Area of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The Interdisciplinary Studies course topics evolve regularly, exploring how artistic practices across disciplines intersect and engage with culture and society.
Interdisciplinary Studies courses
Winter:
- FASS 298 AA Special Topic Sexuality & Arts Queer Horror
- FFAR 259 AA Artforms Of Bollywood
- FFAR 291 EC HIV/AIDS in the 20th Century
- FFAR 298 A Art In The Anthropocene
- FFAR 298 AA It's Bigger Than Hip-Hop
- FFAR 298 B Dancing Bodies Popular Culture
- FFAR 298 BB The Culture Of True Crime
- FFAR 298 C The Movie Soundtrack
- FFAR 298 CC Documentary And Social Justice
- FFAR 298 DD Indigenous Repres In The Arts
- FFAR 298 EE Artificial Intel & The Arts
For detailed descriptions of the special topics courses, visit our FFAR 298 Special Topics page.
Fine Arts Field School
- FAFS 398 (summer)
Fine Arts sexuality studies
- FASS 293 A: Sexual Representation in the Arts (winter)
Department electives
- ARTE 398, both sections (winter)
- ARTH 200 and 300-level courses (except for ARTH 201, 202 and 300) are open to all students, both sections (summer, fall, winter)
- DANC 211 (winter)
Dance and Cultural Histories - DANC 250 (Winter)
Aspects of Production for Dance - DANC 260 (fall)
Sound and Silence for the Dancer - DANC 302 (fall)
Dance as Social Life and Cultural Practice
- DANC 398 D (Fall)
Technique IA - DANC 398 D (Winter)
Technique IB - DANC 350 (fall)
Practical Anatomy for the Moving Body - DANC 306 (fall)
Improvisation as Choreography
- ATRP 301, DTHY 301, MTHY 301 (summer, fall).
Contact creativeartstherapies@concordia.ca for permission to register
- FMST 200 AA (fall/winter)
- CART 215/2 & CART 215/5 Introduction to Game Design (fall, winter)
- MPER 234 (fall/winter)*
Music Performance- Chamber Choir
*Audition required
- MHIS 203 (fall)
Music History to 1800
- MHIS 204 (winter)
Music History from 1800 to the Present
- MHIS 241 (winter)
Music History from Phonograph to Streaming
- MHIS 398 (winter)
Music History – Special Topics
- MUSI 201 (fall)
Music Introduction to Music Fundamentals
- JAZZ 200 (fall/winter)
The Language of Jazz
- JHIS 314 (fall)
Jazz History
- JHIS 398 (winter)
Jazz History – Special Topics
- JPER 225 (fall/winter)*
Jazz Performance-Jazz Choir
*Audition required
- EAST 231 (winter)
Sounds for Artists
- EAST 203 (Fall)
Digital Audio Editing
- FAFS 398 / FAFS 660 / FAFS 860 / MUSI 398 / EAST 398 (summer)
Art, Music, Design, and Science Interactions – Colombia 2025 Field School
- ACTT 201/202/298 Cross-listed (summer, fall, winter)
Acting for the Theatre
- PERC 211 (winter)
Theatre and the City - PERC 212 (fall)
Introduction to Dramaturgy - PERC 303 (winter)
Theatre History and Theory to 1800 - PERC 306 (fall)
Theatre History and Theory, 1800 to the Present