Electives

Choosing a general elective can be tricky! The good news is there is generally no wrong answer. Our recommendation is to consider the following:

Your interests. Choose a subject area you enjoy or are interested in learning more about.
Your strengths. Choose an elective that will build on your strengths or increase a skill set.
Your goals. Choose an elective that will compliment your major or goals.

There are different types of electives so make sure you understand what type of elective you need, and consult with your academic advisor for help.

A general elective is any course that is not mandatory for your program to which you have the prerequisites and meet any restrictions on that course –courses from inside or outside our Faculty can satisfy this requirement.

An FSSH Elective is a course offered by the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, that is not mandatory for your program, and includes the following subject codes: ALSU, COMM, CRMN, FPSY, INDG, LGLS, POSC, PSYC, SOCI, SSCI, and SUST.

Repeat course policy . All instances of a Course will appear on the Academic Transcript. Only the grade achieved on the most recent attempt will be included in the calculation of the student's Grade Point Average. Please review your transcript through your MyOntarioTech account to verify if you have already completed a course, or received a transfer credit for it.

Prerequisite and year level restrictions may apply. Please view the course descriptions in the Academic Calendar to help you select your courses and to view prerequisites.

Fall 2026
Winter 2027
Spring/Summer 2026

Course Code	Course Title	Major restrictions (if applicable)	Notes
COMM 1100U	Intro to Comm, Digital Media studies
COMM 1320U	Public Speaking and Multimedia Presentation for Web 3.0		North campus only
COMM 1420U	Living Digitally: Social Media, Culture & Society	CDMS	Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 2110U	Communication and Digital Media Theory: Keyworks	CDMS General BA	Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 2210U	Researching Comm. and Digital Culture	CDMS General BA	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 2270U	Entertainment goes Global: from Hollywood to the World	CDMS General BA	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 2530U	Advertising as Social Communication	CDMS General BA	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 2620U	Professional Communication and AI	CDMS General BA	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 3110U	Communication Ethics: Making Media for the Social Good	CDMS General BA	Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 3710U	Media, Identity and Intercultural Communication	CDMS LGLS POSC General BA	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open to non-majors Aug 4
COMM 3740U	Video Games, Media & Culture	CDMS General BA	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4120U	AI, Ethics and Communication	CDMS POSC General BA	Must be 4th year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4210U	Special Topics in Communication and Digital Media Studies: Museum Communications	CDMS General BA	Must be 4th year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4261U	Online Creator Entrepreneurs: YouTubers, Influencers, and Streamers	CDMS	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4510U	Public Relations: Social Power, Social Media Platforms, and Social Responsibility	CDMS	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4530U	Media Activism and Protest Culture	CDMS	Must be year 4 or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4710U	Global Media, the Internet and International Relations	CDMS POSC General BA	Must be year 4 or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 1000U	Introduction to Criminology and Justice	FSSH	Available seats released August 4.
CRMN 2021U	Families and the Justice System	FSSH	Available seats released August 4
CRMN 2050U	Rights and Wrongs in the Justice System
CRMN 2830U	Theories of Justice	FSSH
CRMN 2831U	Critical Race Theory
CRMN 2850U	Classical Theories of Crime	FSSH
CRMN 3025U	Victimology	FSSH
CRMN 3028U	Women in the Crim. Justice Sys	FSSH
CRMN 3035U	Crime and Media	FSSH
CRMN 3040U	Restorative Justice	FSSH
CRMN 3050U	Police & Society	FSSH
CRMN 3060U	Punishment and Society	FSSH
FPSY 3900U	STFP I: Phenomenology of Innocence and Wrongful Convictions	FPSY PSYC	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
FPSY 3900U	STFP I: Psychology of Criminal Behaviour	FPSY PSYC	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
FPSY 3900U	STFP I: Jury Decision Making	FPSY PSYC	Available seats open Aug 4
INDG 1000U	Intro to Indigenous Studies
INDG 2010U	The Indian Residential School system
INDG 2500U	Two-Eyed Seeing in the Natural Sciences
LGLS 1000U	Foundations of Legal Studies
LGLS 2100U	Public Law	LGLS General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 2110U	Private Law	LGLS General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 2200U	Legal Theory	LGLS General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 2940U	Legal Research Methods	LGLS General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 3053U	Prosecution & Sentencing	FSSH
LGLS 3220U	Philosophy of Law	LGLS	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 3410U	Labour & Employment law	LGLS POSC	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 3430U	International Human rights	LGLS General Arts	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
LGLS 3530U	Intellectual Property	LGLS General Arts	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
POSC 2000U	Intro to Canadian Politics
POSC 2100U	Introduction to Global Politics
POSC 2200U	Intro Participation & Representation (formerly Fundamentals of Policy Theory)
POSC 2300U	Mobilizing for Change
POSC 3000U	Introduction to Political Economy (formerly Policy, Democracy and Governance)		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 3101U	Inequality, Environment and Development		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 3305U	Energy Policy: Canada in a Transitioning. World		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 4310U	Politics of Indigenous Rights	FSSH	Must be 3rd year or higher.
PSYC 1000U	Introductory Psychology
PSYC 2010U	Developmental Psychology	FSSH FEd	Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 2030U	Psychopathology	FSSH FEd	Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 2060U	Cognitive Psychology	FSSH FEd	Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3060U	Personality Psychology	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3530U	Developmental Neuroscience	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3550U	Psychology of Gender	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3610U	Thinking & Decision making	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Available seats open Aug 4
SOCI 1000U	Introductory Sociology
SOCI 1470U	Impact of Sci and Tech
SOCI 2030U	Technology & Society
SOCI 2700U	Human Sexuality
SOCI 2720U	Sport and Society
SSCI 1210U	History of Science & Tech
SSCI 1700U	Reading our World
SSCI 2000U	Introduction to Social Science
SSCI 2414U	Science Fiction and Society

Course Code	Course Title	Major restrictions (if applicable)	Notes
ALSU 1101U	Found for Acad Learn & Success		Not available to Engineering or Business
COMM 1320U	Public Speaking and Multimedia Presentation for Web 3.0	CDMS General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 2220U	The Media, Creativity and Culture in Canada	CDMS POSC	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 2240U	Television	CDMS	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 2311U	The Creative Industries: Ideas, Art, Tech, Money, Power	CDMS POSC General Arts	Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 2410U	Social Hist of Comm & Media Tech	CDMS General Arts SOCI	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 2411U	Gov Comm & Digital Creativity: Policy for an era of Digital Disruption	CDMS LGLS General Arts	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3250U	Pop Culture and Entertainment	CDMS SOCI	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3350U	Environmental Communication	CDMS	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3410U	Designing Hits: Storytelling in the Digital Age	CDMS General Arts	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3510U	Work in the Creative and Tech Industries	CDMS LGLS POSC	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3610U	Strategic Commun, for Influence: Rhetoric, Persuasion and Propaganda	CDMS LGLS	Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 3720U	Knowing Your Audience: Audience Studies for Media Professionals and Creators	CDMS LGLS POSC	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4420U	Political Comm, Dig media and Democracy	CDMS POSC General Arts SOCI	Must be 3rd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
COMM 4610U	The Struggle is Real: Transformation for Communication, Conflict, and Peace	CDMS LGLS POSC General Arts	Must be 4th year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 2010U	Criminal Law	FSSH	Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 2030U	Social Control	FSSH
CRMN 2040U	Decolonizing Criminology	FSSH
CRMN 2840U	Gender, Sex & (In)Justice	FSSH
CRMN 3010U	Social Justice and Conflict	FSSH
CRMN 3023U	Family Violence	FSSH
CRMN 3024U	Criminal Gangs	FSSH
CRMN 3026U	Organized Crime	FSSH
CRMN 3027U	Delinquency, Deviance and youth crime	FSSH
CRMN 3040U	Restorative Justice	FSSH
CRMN 3045U	Terrorism	FSSH
CRMN 3056U	Race-ing Justice	FSSH
CRMN 3301U	Green Criminology & Eco-Justice	FSSH
CRMN 3401U	Indigenous Peoples & Justice	FSSH	Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 3850U	Contemporary Theories of Crime	FSSH	Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 4032U	Mediation & Conflict resolution	FSSH	Must be year 3 or higher.
CRMN 4062U	The Prison Experience	FSSH	Must be year 4 or higher.
CRMN 4065U	Criminal Justice Ethics & Misc	CRMN	Available seats open Aug 4
CRMN 4075U	Intl Perspectives on Criminal Jus	CRMN	Available seats open Aug 4
FPSY 3039U	Children, Psych and the law	FPSY PSYC CRMN	Must be year 3 and higher. Available seats open Aug 4
FPSY 3210U	Forensic Psychology	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be year 3 and higher. Available seats open Aug 4
FPSY 3320U	Eyewitness Psychology	FPSY PSYC	Must be year 3 and higher. Available seats open Aug 4
INDG 1000U	Intro to Indigenous Studies
INDG 4000U	Understanding Reconciliation & Decolon		Must be year 3 or higher.
INDG 4300U	Special Topics: Treaties		Must be year 2 or higher.
LGLS 2011U	Immigration & Refugee Law		Must be year 2 or higher.
LGLS 2120U	International Law	LGLS	Must be year 2 or higher.
LGLS 2420U	Canadian Human Rights Law	LGLS POSC	Must be year 2 or higher.
LGLS 2500U	Information and Privacy Law	LGLS General Arts	Must be year 2 or higher.
LGLS 3230U	Law & Globalization	LGLS	Must be 3rd year or higher.
LGLS 3240U	Cultural Studies of Law	LGLS	Must be 3rd year or higher.
LGLS 3310U	Indign Ppls Law & State in Can	LGLS	Must be 3rd year or higher.
LGLS 3320U	Race, Ethnicity and the Law	LGLS	Must be 3rd year or higher.
LGLS 3700U	Law & Power	FSSH	Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 1000U	Intro. to Political Science
POSC 1200U	Intro to Democ & Theory in Practice	FSSH	Available seats open Aug 4
POSC 2502U	Community Dev. & Social Change
POSC 2800U	Intro to Business, Economy & Society
POSC 3102U	Race and Racism in Political culture		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 3600U	Politics of Education in Canada		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 3603U	Politics of Housing		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 3800U	ST: Business, Economy, Society		Must be 3rd year or higher.
POSC 4000U	International Politics and Policy (formerly Business, Politics and the Macroeconomy)		Must be 3rd year or higher.
PSYC 1000U	Introductory Psychology
PSYC 2010U	Developmental Psychology	FSSH FHS FSc	Must be 2nd year or higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 2020U	Social Psychology	FSSH	Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 2050U	Brain and Behaviour		Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3035U	Adolescence	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3065U	Developmental Psychopathology	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3510U	Research Methods in Neuroscience	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher.
PSYC 3620U	Motivation & Emotion	FPSY PSYC Ed PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher. Available seats open Aug 4
PSYC 3900U	STPI: Political Psychology	FPSY PSYC	Must be 3rd year of higher. Available seats open Aug 4
SOCI 1000U	Introductory Sociology
SOCI 1470U	Impact of Science & Tech
SOCI 2010U	Deviance & Social Control
SOCI 2020U	Issues in Diversity
SOCI 2300U	Social Problems
SSCI 1210U	History of Science and Tech
SSCI 1700U	Reading our World
SSCI 2101U	Making a Diff: Intro to Social Entrepreneurship	FSSH
SSCI 3999U	ST: Long Term Care Crisis
SSCI 3999U	ST: Surveillance and Society
SSCI 4010U	Policy Development		Available seats open Aug 4
SUST 1002U	Fundamentals of Sustain II: HSS

COURSE CODE	COURSE NAME	LOCATION	TERM	PREREQ	RESTRICTIONS
BUSI 1600U	Management of the Enterprise	Online	12-week spring/summer
BUSI 2000U	Collaborative Leadership	Online	6-week summer
BUSI 2311U	Organizational Behaviour		6-week summer
BUSI 2350U	Developing Management Skills		3-week condensed June 29 – July 17
BUSI 2550U	Intro to Project Management	Online	6-week spring
COMM 1420U	Living Digitally: Social Media, Culture & Society	online	6-week spring
COMM 3250U	Pop Culture and Entertainment	online	6-week summer		must be year 2 or higher
CRMN 3038U	Serial and Mass Homicide	online	6-week summer	See academic calendar	must be year 2 or higher
EDST 1000U	Foundations of Learning	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 1100U	Problm & Inquiry Bsd Learning	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 2160U	Online Learning	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 2170U	Design Inclusive Learning Enviro	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 2410U	Foundations of Adult Learning	online	12-week spring/summer		must be year 2 or higher
EDST 2420U	Workplace Learning	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 2500U	EDI Foundations	online	12-week spring/summer
EDST 3140U	Digital Communication Tech	online	12-week spring/summer
ENVS 1000U	Environmental Science	In person and online	6-week summer
FPSY 3210U	Forensic Psychology	in-person	6-week spring	PSYC 1000U
FPSY 3900U	Special Topics in Forensic Psychology: Psych of Evil	in-person	6-week summer	See academic calendar	Program Restricted (cross-listed with PSYC version)
FSCI 3050U	Assassinations, International Crimes & Disasters	online	6- week Summer	FSCI 1010U	must be year 3 or higher
INDG 1000U	Introduction to Indigenous Studies: Colonial History and its impacts on Indigenous Peoples	online	12-week spring & summer
LBAT 3400U	Modern Espionage	online	6-week spring		must be year 2 or higher
LBAT 3999U	Special Topics in Liberal Studies: AI and Society	online	6-week spring		must be year 2 or higher
LBAT 3999U	Special Topics in Liberal Studies: Cyber Warfare	online	6-week summer		must be year 2 or higher
POSC 3304U	Planetary Health and Justice	online	2-week condensed May 25 – June 6
PSYC 1000U	Introduction to Psychology	In person and online	6-week spring
PSYC 2010U	Developmental Psychology	In person and online	6-week spring	PSYC 1000U
PSYC 3900U	Special Topics in Psychology I: Psych of Evil	in-person	6-week summer	See academic calendar	Program Restricted (cross-listed with FPSY version)
SCIE 1920U	Introduction to Astronomy	In person	6-week spring
SOCI 1000U	Introduction to Sociology	online	6-week summer
SSCI 1470U	Impact of Science & Technology on Society	online	6-week summer
SSCI 2900U	Research Methods	online	6-week spring	SOCI 1000U Or PSYC 1000U
SSCI 2910U	Data Analysis	online	6-week summer	SSCI 2900U