COMM 0N01 Co-op Work Placement I First co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer. Restriction: open to COMM Co-op students. COMM 0N02 Co-op Work Placement II Second co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer. Restriction: open to COMM Co-op students. COMM 0N03 Co-op Work Placement III Third co-op work placement (4 months) with an approved employer. Restriction: open to COMM Co-op students. COMM 0N90 Co-op Training and Development Provides a framework for the development of learning objectives by students for individual work terms. Includes orientation to the co-op experience, goal setting, career planning, resumé preparation and interview skills preparation. Lectures, presentations, site visits, 2 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM Co-op students. COMM 1F90 Introduction to Communications Approaches and issues in communications from both humanities and social science perspectives. Topics include the cultural use of symbols and signs, qualitative and quantitative mass media analysis, critical analysis of texts, the cultural character of the Canadian media and the impact of the media and media institutions upon society. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. COMM 2F50 Communications Theory Systems theory, semiotic and cognitive approaches to message production and reception, symbolic interactionism and other constructivist approaches, interpersonal and group communication theories, communications analysis and theories of the mass media and their functions in society. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and FILM (single and combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: one of COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94, PSYC 1F90, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2F92 Popular Narrative (also offered as ENGL 2F92 and PCUL 2F92) Archetypal and mythic dimensions of popular literary genres such as the detective novel, Gothic fiction, science fiction, the romance novel; comparison and contrast with other media. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of COMM 1F90, one ENGL credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2F95 Introduction to Digital Imaging (also offered as VISA 2F95) Basic concepts in two dimensional image creation and manipulation for print and the web. Systematic overview and project-based use of fundamental graphic software including Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, PageMaker and Dreamweaver. Lectures, lab, 5 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and VISA (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90, VISA 1P97 or permission of the instructor. Note: enrolment limited to 15 students. Material fee required. Students may need additional materials that they must supply. COMM 2F98 Canadian Public Administration (also offered as LABR 2F98 and POLI 2F98) Political, legal and managerial dimensions of public administration. Topics include the structure and management of public organizations; government reform; political-bureaucratic relations; pressure groups; human resource and budgetary processes; the policy process; ethics and accountability. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of COMM 1F90, LABR 1P91 and 1P92, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (POLI) 3P50. COMM 2M90-2M99 Special Studies in Communications Topics selected on the basis of specific areas of instructional expertise and student interest. COMM 2P14 Technical Writing (also offered as WRIT 2P14) Processes of technical writing and editing. Document design for scientific, corporate and industrial communication. Practical experience in the production of technical documents. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 2P15. COMM 2P15 Communications Research Methods Introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods for communications research. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PCUL (single and combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (SOCI) 2F10. COMM 2P16 Communication for Organizations (also offered as WRIT 2P16) Theory, strategies and practice of writing for both business and public organizations. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P18 Reporting and News Writing for Mass Media (also offered as WRIT 2P18) News gathering, writing and editing for print and electronic media; journalistic style and conventions; interviewing and other information-gathering techniques; editing basics. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to EWRT majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRIT 1(alpha)80 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Writing may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in WRIT 3P09. COMM 2P20 Introduction to Popular Culture (also offered as FILM 2P20 and PCUL 2P20) Historical, theoretical and critical approaches to various forms of popular culture (film, music, television, literature, periodicals and advertising). Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: one of COMM 1F90, CANA 1F91, FILM 1F94 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P21 Canadian Popular Culture (also offered as FILM 2P21 and PCUL 2P21) Survey of the media in Canada. Studies in the popular arts, with special reference to the ways that institutions (CBC, NFB) and selected artists identify and express a Canadian cultural imagination. Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: COMM 2P20 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P22 Media and Sport (also offered as PCUL 2P22 and SPMA 2P22) Representation of sport in film, television and advertising. Topics may include issues of race, gender, business, politics and ideology in both professional and non-professional sports. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and SPMA majors with a minimum of 5.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P54 Documentary Film (also offered as FILM 2P54 and SOCI 2P54) History, theory, aesthetics and cultural implications of documentary film and other media. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: one of FILM 1F94, COMM 1F90, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (FILM/SOCI) 2F54. COMM 2P55 Interpersonal Communication (also offered as SOCI 2P55) Perspectives on human communication including both verbal and non-verbal communication. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Sociology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in RECL 3P14. COMM 2P56 Canadian Cinema (also offered as FILM 2P56) Critical and historical study of Canadian cinema. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: one of FILM 1F94, COMM 1F90, or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (FILM) 2F97. COMM 2P70 Politics and Popular Music (also offered as MUSI 2P70, PCUL 2P70 and POLI 2P70) Political context and content of popular music. Topics may include theoretical perspectives on popular culture/popular music; the relationship of popular music to public policy, race and gender, popular movements and political identity; political economy of the music business. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. COMM 2P90 Computer-Mediated Communication Nature of computer-mediated communication (CMC) and its role in social, educational and interpersonal contexts. Practicum component will introduce the technology and the methodologies that are essential to explore the potential of CMC. Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P91 Hypertext: Reading and Writing in New Spaces Theory, philosophy and politics of Hypertext as a communicative mode. Topics include critical theory in a Hypertext context, changing perceptions of reader narrative, new forms of Hypertext fiction and Hypertext compared with other electronic textuality. Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 2P90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 2P94 Popular Cinema (also offered as FILM 2P94 and PCUL 2P94) Popular cinema as art and institution emphasizing film genres and cultural contexts. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab. Prerequisite: FILM 1F94. COMM 3F10 Media Psychology (also offered as PSYC 3F10) Psychological aspects of media as entertainment and information, including social factors and cultural environments (sex, violence, sports, music, news, talk shows). Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90, PSYC 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. COMM 3F28 Basic Production: Video (also offered as FILM 3F28) Introduction to the theory and practice of video techniques: critique of video and production work. Workshops, seminar, 3 hours per week; additional production time as required. Restriction: permission of the Department. Prerequisite: two FILM credits. Note: enrolment limited to 15 students. Materials fee required. COMM 3F71 Industries Internship emphasizing the economic and social contexts of media organizations, businesses and technology systems. Tutorial, 3 hours per week; plus internship placement time. Restriction: open to COMM (Business Communications, Communications Policy and Information Technology stream) majors with a minimum of 10.0 overall credits, a minimum 70 percent major average, a minimum 60 percent non-major average and permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: students are responsible for arranging their placement with a prospective employer and arranging their course with a faculty supervisor, in consultation with the Undergraduate Program Adviser, before registration. Enrolment limited to a maximum of 15 students. COMM 3P01 Directed Reading Tutorial combined with one or more research papers or projects in an area of Communication Studies of mutual interest to the student and instructor. Restriction: permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: students are responsible for arranging their course with a faculty member in consultation with the Undergraduate Program Adviser and must submit a written proposal signed by the faculty member to the Undergraduate Program Adviser before registration. COMM 3P16 Mass Media (also offered as PCUL 3P16 and SOCI 3P16) Introduction to methods of media analysis. Comparison of theoretical and methodological approaches to mass media content, structures, institutions and audiences. Analysis of relations among media, culture and society with reference to Canadian examples. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and SOCI (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2F50, 2P21, SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10) or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P17 Politics and the Mass Media in Canada (also offered as PCUL 3P17 and POLI 3P17) Canadian mass media and their relationship to the political process. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 2F50, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P20 Television Studies (also offered as FILM 3P20 and PCUL 3P20) Historical, theoretical and critical approaches to television. Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and STAC majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2F90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P21 Canadian Television (also offered as FILM 3P21 and PCUL 3P21) Historical theoretical and critical approaches to Canadian television. Lectures, seminar, lab, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and STAC majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: COMM 3P20 or permission of the instructor.

COMM 3P33 Psychology of Intergroup Behaviour (also offered as PSYC 3P33) Social psychological theories and research in the area of intergroup relations and intergroup conflict. Topics include realistic conflict theory, social identity theory, social exchange, relative deprivation and research on intergroup perceptions and attitudes. Current issues/controversies and implications for the resolution of intergroup conflict. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90. Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90 Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. COMM 3P54 Issues in Documentary Film (also offered as FILM 3P54 and SOCI 3P54) Advanced studies in selected aspects of documentary film and other media. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: COMM 2P54. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (FILM/SOCI) 2F54. COMM 3P56 Issues in Canadian Cinema (also offered as FILM 3P56) Advanced studies in selected aspects of Canadian cinema. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: COMM 2P56. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM (FILM) 2F97. COMM 3P63 Desktop Publishing and Design (also offered as WRIT 3P63) Practicum in desktop publishing, layout and design. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and EWRT majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: COMM 2F50, one WRIT credit numbered 2(alpha)00 or above or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P65 Organizational Communication Critical examination of the theories and practices relating to the process of communication in various organizational contexts. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits. Prerequisite: COMM 2F50. COMM 3P74 Geography and Gender (also offered as GEOG 3P74 and WISE 3P74) Work of feminist geographers. Relationship between gender and space with respect to the organization of the city, architecture of the home, design of the shopping mall, the media, fear, homelessness, gentrification and employment. Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, GEOG 2P02, 2P03, 2P06, WISE 2P90, 2P91 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P80 Psychology of Interpersonal Behaviour (also offered as PSYC 3P80) Social psychology of interpersonal attraction and relationships, as studied through experimental, correlational and longitudinal designs. Reinforcement, exchange, attributional, equity and balance models. Levels of relationships. Aspects of the maintenance and dissolution of relationships and of interpersonal psychopathology. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90. Prerequisite: PSYC 1F90. Note: PSYC 2F30 recommended. Students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. COMM 3P88 Words in the Mind (also offered as PSYC 3P88) Focus on the mental lexicon, including basic components, vocabulary, theories of meaning, metaphors and meaning, selecting and recognizing words in communication. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90. Prerequisite: one of COMM 1F90, LING 1F94, PSYC 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. COMM 3P90 Mediated Communication Explorations of topics such as virtual communities, cyber-identity/identities and cyber-spirituality. Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 2P90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P92 Technology and Culture (also offered as FILM 3P92 and PCUL 3P92) Studies in the effects of technological change on cultural forms and the representations of technology in different media. Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week. Prerequisite: COMM 2P20, 2P21 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P93 Media and Minorities (also offered as PCUL 3P93 and SOCI 3P93) Relations between mass media and minority groups in society including dominant representations and stereotypes of cultural, racial and sexual minorities and minority group access to alternative forms of media production. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly lab. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2F50, COMM 2P21, SOCI 2P11 and 2P13 (2F10) or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P96 Issues in Popular Culture (also offered as FILM 3P96 and PCUL 3P96) Specialized studies in different media, or the role of different media in specific social, historical or theoretical contexts. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week, plus weekly lab. Prerequisite: COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2F90 or permission of the instructor. COMM 3P97 Gender and Film (also offered as FILM 3P97 and WISE 3P97) Gendered narratives in classical Hollywood cinema to the late 1950s emphasizing film constructions of femininity and masculinity, and the implications of spectatorship and ideology within classical film. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2F90, WISE 2P91 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM 3F97. COMM 3P98 Screened Women (also offered as FILM 3P98 and WISE 3P98) Woman-centred films from early to contemporary cinema by women directors from different countries, contextualized in issues of feminist film theory and paradigm shifts in female representation, ideology and spectatorship. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly film lab. Prerequisite: one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2F90, WISE 2P91 or permission of the instructor. Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade in COMM 3F97. COMM 3Q99 Media: Fantasy and Reality (also offered as PSYC 3Q99) Media images and reality, the role of absorption as well as other personality and cognitive aspects of the experience of reality vs. fantasy, virtual reality, computer effects and images. Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PSYC (single or combined) majors until date specified in BIRT guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90. Prerequisite: COMM 1F90, PSYC 1F90 or permission of the instructor. Note: students minoring in Psychology may register prior to date specified in BIRT guide. Contact the Department. COMM 3V50-3V59 Special Topics in Communications Studies Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Prerequisites: COMM 2F50, 2P20 and 2P21 or permission of the instructor. COMM 4F80 Directed Reading Directed individual or group reading in an area of communications studies. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 80 percent major average, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: students are responsible for arranging their course with a faculty member in consultation with the Undergraduate Program Adviser and must submit a written proposal, signed by the faculty member, to the Undergraduate Program Adviser, before registration. The reading may not be on the topic or with the faculty member of the student's COMM 4F99 thesis. COMM 4F99 Honours Thesis Thesis to be based on individual study and research carried out under the supervision of a faculty adviser. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits, a minimum 80 percent major average, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: to register in the Honours thesis, the student must consult the Undergraduate Program Adviser about topics, department regulations and the selection of an adviser. COMM 4P17 Communications Policy (also offered as PCUL 4P17) Historical perspectives on the development of government policies affecting the arts, cultural industries, public and private broadcasting in Canada. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P22 Technology, Change and Curriculum Impact of technology and the information age on society and schools and the need to reflect resulting changes in school curriculum. Lectures, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (Information Technology stream) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: enrolment limited. COMM 4P23 Research on Popular Culture (also offered as PCUL 4P23 and SOCI 4P23) Advanced research seminar on the relations between mass media and popular culture. Topics vary with the interests of instructor and students. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), PCUL (single or combined) and SOCI (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. Prerequisite: COMM 2P20, 3P16 or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P30 Theories of Mass Culture (also offered as FILM 4P30 and PCUL 4P30) Studies in cultural theory and its application to mass media texts, with special reference to the work of the Frankfurt School, French Structuralism and British Cultural Studies. Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P31 Theories of the Visible (also offered as FILM 4P31 and PCUL 4P31) Central 20th-century developments in theories of visibility and their relevance to the field of media studies. Lectures, lab, seminar, 4 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P32 Comparative Mass Media (also offered as POLI 4P32) Selected problems concerning the mass media and the political process in Canada and other countries. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and POLS (single or combined) majors with a minimum of 14.0 overall credits and either a minimum 70 percent major average and a minimum 60 percent non-major average or approval to year 4 (honours). Prerequisite: COMM 3P17, POLI 2F30 or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P50 Ethnography of Communication Anthropological approaches to cultural variations in communications, particularly verbal communication. Purposes to which speech is put and the way it is organized for these purposes in different cultural contexts. Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P51 Language and Power Role of language in the creation and maintenance of ideology and power structures. Topics include political rhetoric, religious discourse, language in the professions (law, medicine). Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P55 Advertising, Mass Media and Culture (also offered as PCUL 4P55) Historical research into the development of Canadian advertising practices in an international context. Evaluation of the cultural and economic impact of advertising on the mass media and the role of advertising in the formation of a consumer culture. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4P60 Technology Supervised training in information technology through placement in a public or private sector organization. Restriction: open to COMM (Information Technology stream) majors with a minimum of 14.0 credits, a minimum 80 percent major average, approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Undergraduate Program Adviser. Note: enrolment limited. COMM 4V50-4V59 Research in Communications Studies Special topics in communications studies. Seminar, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor. COMM 4V52 2003-2004: British Popular Culture (also offered as FILM 4V52 and PCUL 4V52) Mass media in Britain emphasizing issues of production, regulation and reception. Close analysis of popular texts in their social and political contexts. Lectures, seminar, lab, 3 hours per week. Restriction: open to COMM (single or combined), FILM (single or combined) and PCUL (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.