As outlined in the chart below, depending on the module selected, a student must select a specified number of approved courses relevant to the study of Media and the Public Interest.
| Module | Required number of approved electives |
| | |
| Major in MPI | 2.0 approved courses or equivalents at the 2000 level or above
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| Honors Specialization in MPI | 1.5 approved courses or equivalents at the 2000 level or above
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The following courses may be taken to complete elective requirements for MPI modules:
Note: Courses may not be offered every year and certain registration constraints may be in place. Students are responsible for ensuring that they have the prerequisites for any suggested electives.
MIT 2020F/G: Legal Foundations of Media and Information
MIT 2021F/G: Legal and Ethical Issues in Multimedia
MIT 2211F/G: Foundations of Global Communications
MIT 2375F/G: Sexuality in the Media
MIT 2510F/G: Race, Ethnicity and Technology
MIT 2935F/G: First Nations in the News
MIT 3110F/G: Global Political Economy of Information
MIT 3130F/G: The New Political Economy of Information: Networked Capitalism
MIT 3210F/G: Media Representations of Women
MIT 3214F/G: Advertising and the Mass Media
MIT 3215F/G: Killer Culture: War and the Mediation of Reality in the 20th-21st Century
MIT 3216F/G: The Culture of Consumption
MIT 3217F/G: Public Opinion
MIT 3218F/G: Technology, Democracy, and Postwar America
MIT 3220F/G: The Limits of the ‘Avant-Garde’: Art and Activism through the 20th Century
MIT 3718F/G: Work in a Wired World
MIT 3830F/G: Freedom of the Press: Print Media Policy
MIT 3931F/G: Century of Genocide
MIT 3932F/G: Politics and Representation of Food
MIT 3933F/G: The University, Student Activism & the Public Interest
The following special topic offerings for 2011-2012 may be taken to complete the MPI elective requirements for MPI modules.
MIT 3442F: Special Topics in MIT: Television and US Social Movements in the 1960’s
MIT 3435F: Special Topics in MIT: Women's TV: History, Gender, Feminism
MIT 3437G: Special Topics in MIT: International Media and Social Change
MIT 3770G: Special Topics in MIT: Human Rights Reporting: International Legal Standards for the Protection of Journalists
MIT 3771F: Special Topics in MIT: Net-Work: Labour and Profit on Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, and Web 2.0
MIT 3852G: Special Topics in MIT: Social Media and Organizations
MIT3875G: Special Topics in MIT: Mobile Media