Concentration Details

Culture and Technology

Culture and technology are inextricably linked. The Culture & Technology concentration prepares graduates for information professions that require a culturally informed understanding of technology, and a technologically literate understanding of cultural objects, industries, and practices. Students in this concentration take courses that draw from the humanities, arts, and relevant parts of the social and computing sciences to take up vital roles at the intersections of culture and technology.

Coursework prepares graduates to become leaders, knowledge translators, intellectually independent critics, and creative practitioners in different roles at the intersection of culture and technology. Graduates will be able to draw on historical and cultural knowledge to navigate technological changes and their social implications. Topics explored in C&T’s core courses include artificial intelligence and creativity, science and technology studies, the digital humanities, design and accessibility, reading and writing technologies, theory and critique, new media, culture industries, and online communities. Two C&T-specific studio courses taken in the first year place practical, hands-on work front and centre in the C&T curriculum, and serve as a central, keystone experience in which students develop their own research projects.

Overall, this concentration’s emphasis on culture, history, and creative/critical practices in courses gives C&T graduates the practical and theoretical knowledge they need to work in settings that are increasingly defined by change.