Canada's mass media have played a particularly significant role in the country's development as a distinct nation. The course is structured around issues of media power in Canadian life. It examines aspects of the Canadian experience in the context of current perspectives on national and international media developments.
CMNS 302 is one of two foundation courses for the Bachelor of Professional Arts (Communication Studies) degree program. It follows the interactions between media and society in a number of technological contexts: oral and literate cultures, manuscript and print cultures, electric, and electronic cultures.
Communication in History is intended to ground communication studies students in the field. The course surveys the development of communication technology and introduces some important scholarly debates about those technologies. In so doing, it tries to establish the notion that the history of communication technology is as much about ideas and practices as it is about events and things.
Welcome to Communication Studies 321: Computing in Everyday Life, a three–credit course that surveys the psychological and sociological impacts of the growth of computers. The first four units form the core of the course: Overview; Artificial Intelligence (AI); Virtual Reality (VR) and Robotics; and The Internet. The next four units consider some of the applications of computing that we use in our daily lives.
CMNS 401 surveys how policies that influence our cultural experiences are shaped and developed as an interaction between government actors and citizen interests.
CMNS 421 a three-credit senior-level course that focuses on how people communicate on the Internet.
In CMNS/GOVN 444: Public Relations and Its Contexts you will learn about the foundations of public relations as well as an overview of critical public relations studies—perspectives on the study (and not just the practice) of public relations through a variety of theories and case studies.