Students must check to ensure that prerequisites are met. Students may be deregistered, at the request of the instructor, from any course for which prerequisites and/or restrictions have not been met.
COMMUNICATION STUDIES COURSES
COMM 1F90
Introduction to Communication and Media Studies
Approaches and issues in communication 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 within our increasingly digitally mediated lives.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
COMM 1P96
Professional Communication
Introduction to theory and practice of professional communication focusing on applied rhetoric for organizational contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week
Restriction: open to BCMN majors until date specified in Registration guide.
COMM 1P97
Introduction to Communication in Business
Theory and practice of business communication; including structures of organizations, strategy, leadership, conflict resolution, ethics, organizational culture; gender and cross-cultural relations in organizations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week
Restriction: open to BCMN majors until date specified in Registration guide. Not open to BBA majors.
Students will not receive earned credit for COMM 1P97 if MGMT 1P51 or 1P93 have been successfully completed.
*COMM 2F00
New Media Literacy
(also offered as FILM 2F00 and PCUL 2F00)
Practical training in a repertoire of skills and tools essential to functioning in new media environments, and critical analytical training in key issues and theories related to the contemporary information age.
Restriction: students must have minimum of 4.0 overall credits.
Note: this course is offered online.
#COMM 2P14
Technical Writing
(also offered as WRDS 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(s): one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P14.
*COMM 2P15
Research Methods in Communication and Culture
(also offered as PCUL 2P15)
Introduction to qualitative and quantitative methods for communication and popular culture research.
Lectures, lab, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 2P16
Communication for Organizations
(also offered as WRDS 2P16)
Theory, strategies and practice of writing for both business and public organizations.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P16.
#COMM 2P18
Reporting and News Writing for Mass Media
(also offered as PCUL 2P18 and WRDS 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 BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL,WRDS (single or combined) majors, RWRT and WRDS minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P18.
#COMM 2P20
Theories of Popular Culture
(also offered as FILM 2P20 and PCUL 2P20)
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of various forms of popular culture. Critical and research skills specific to studies in popular culture.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined), PCUL majors, DCUL, MEST and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CANA 1F91, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 2P21
Canadian Popular Culture
(also offered as CANA 2P21, FILM 2P21 and PCUL 2P21)
Survey of the media in Canada. Studies in the popular arts, referencing the ways that institutions (CBC, NFB) and selected artists identify and express a Canadian cultural imagination.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, CANA, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide. After that date open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, CANA, FILM (single or combined), PCUL majors, GHUM, SOSC students and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration Guide.
*COMM 2P26
The Information Society
(also offered as PCUL 2P26)
Concepts such as surveillance, social sorting and control within our networked lives. Historic precursors to computing as well as contemporary and emerging technologies from our everyday lives.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, IASC 1F01 (1F00), PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
COMM 2P50
Communication Theory
Survey of theory, such as cognitive approaches to message reception, symbolic interactionism, interpersonal and group communication theories, communication analysis and theories of the mass media and their functions in society. Criteria to evaluate theories.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single and combined), and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, FILM 1F94, PSYC 1F90, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM 2F50.
COMM 2P51
Language and Communication
Interconnections between language and its cultural and communicative meanings in terms of their situational, interactional, and functional features.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1F90.
COMM 2P52
Nonverbal Communication
Introduction to nonverbal communication in interpersonal, intercultural and mass media contexts. Topics may include kinesics and proxemics, the role of gesture, clothing, and social behaviour in communication.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1F90.
#COMM 2P54
Documentary Film
(also offered as FILM 2P54 and SOCI 2P54)
History, theory, aesthetics and cultural implications of documentary film and other visual media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, FILM 1F94, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
COMM 2P55
Interpersonal Communication
How people use verbal and nonverbal to interact in personal and social relationships.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 4.0 overall credits.
#COMM 2P56
Canadian Cinema
(also offered as FILM 2P56 and PCUL 2P56)
Critical and historical study of Canadian cinema.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 2P63
Communication Design
(also offered as PCUL 2P63 and WRDS 2P63)
Communication through imagery and typography, including grid usage, composition, visual hierarchy, content development and scale.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one credit from COMM 1F90, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, PCUL 1F92, WRDS (WRIT) 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 2P63.
COMM 2P65
Organizational Culture
Comparison of competing approaches and contemporary debates in cultural analysis of organizations.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1F90.
#COMM 2P70
Popular Music and Society
(also offered as MUSI 2P70, PCUL 2P70 and SOCI 2P70)
Critical approaches to popular music in its social, cultural, political and economic contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, MUSI (single or combined), PCUL and SOCI (single or combined) majors until date specified in the Registration guide. After that date open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, MUSI (single or combined), PCUL, SOCI (single or combined) majors, GHUM, SOSC students, MEST and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, MUSI 1F00, 1F50, PCUL 1F92, SOCI 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 2P71
Popular Arts and the Modern Middle East
(also offered as HIST 2P71 and PCUL 2P71)
This course examines Middle Eastern popular culture and art from historical perspectives. It explores the influence and role of internet, music, cinema and theater, paintings, sports, foods and fashion in the daily life of people in the Middle East and their historical transformations through modernization and globalization. The course investigates how class, gender, economy and politics shaped and reshaped the artistic representations and popular culture in the region.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
*COMM 2P90
Networks, Digital Identities and Interactions
(also offered as IASC 2P90)
Introduction to foundations of the Internet, online communities and social networking. Critical engagement with identity and interactive communication practices in our digitally mediated lives.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, IASC 1F01 (1F00), IASC 1P04 and 1P05 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 2P91
Social Media
(also offered as IASC 2P91 and PCUL 2P91)
Theory, philosophy and politics of Social Media as a communicative mode. Politics of participatory and commodified culture online and processes of planning content to convey a narrative or convene a community.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, PCUL 1F92, IASC 1F01 (1F00) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 2P92
Hip Hop and the Urban Working Class
(also offered as LABR 2P92 and PCUL 2P92)
Global urban working class life through the lens of hip hop culture. Topics may include the impact of neoliberal globalization, precarious work, the informal economy, and the ways in which race, class and gender shape experiences of social and economic life in the global city.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to students with a minimum of 4.0 credits.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in LABR 2P91.
#COMM 2P93
Popular Narrative
(also offered as ENGL 2P93, FILM 2P93 and PCUL 2P93)
Analysis of storytelling across different media such as novels, film, television, the Internet and video games.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), FILM (single or combined), PCUL and WRDS (single and combined) majors.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, ENGL 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92 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 screening.
Prerequisite(s): one of CPCF 1F25, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92.
*COMM 2P98
Media Industries
(also offered as PCUL 2P98 and SOCI 2P98)
Canadian media production in its economic, political and technological environments.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single and combined), PCUL, SOCI (single and combined) majors, MEST, CRAS and SOCI minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, PCUL 1F92, SOCI 1F90.
#COMM 2Q91
Ethnography and Popular Culture
(also offered as PCUL 2Q91)
Ethnographic approaches to the study of folk culture and popular entertainment, past and present.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, CPCF 1F25, FILM 1F94, PCUL 1F92.
#COMM 2Q98
Introduction to Canadian Public Administration
(also offered as LABR 2Q98 and POLI 2Q98)
Political, legal and managerial dimensions of public administration. Topics include the structure and management of public organizations; government reform; political-bureaucratic relations; human resources and budgetary processes; ethics and accountability.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, LABR 1F90, 1F99, 1P95, one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
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 contract signed by the faculty member to the Undergraduate Program Adviser before registration.
#COMM 3P03
Advanced Studies in Popular Narrative
(also offered as ENGL 3P03, FILM 3P03 and PCUL 3P03)
Case studies in the adaptation of popular texts across media.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), FILM (single or combined), PCUL and WRDS (single or combined) majors.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P93.
*COMM 3P15
Media Analysis
(also offered as PCUL 3P15)
Introduction to methods of media analysis. Comparison of theoretical and methodological approaches to mediated content, production, consumption, and reception.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and MEST minors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P15.
#COMM 3P17
Politics and the Mass Media in Canada
(also offered as POLI 3P17)
Canadian mass media and their relationship to the political process.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P50 (2F50), one POLI credit numbered 1(alpha)90 to 1(alpha)99 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 3P18
Audience Studies
(also offered as FILM 3P18 and PCUL 3P18)
Theoretical and methodological approaches to the understanding of audiences for media and cultural products, including print, sound, film, broadcasting and digital media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20.
*COMM 3P19
Communication and Media Policy
(also offered as PCUL 3P19)
Historical trends in objectives and implementation of communication policies. Topics include public broadcasting, subsidies, protection, regulation and effect of international trade on domestic media policy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, DCUL and MEST minors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P98.
#COMM 3P20
Television Studies
(also offered as FILM 3P20 and PCUL 3P20)
Historical, theoretical and critical approaches to television.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined), PCUL, STAC majors and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 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, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined), PCUL, STAC majors and PCUL minors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3P20 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 3P22
Media and Sport
(also offered as PCUL 3P22 and SPMA 3P22)
Relations between sport organizations, the mass media and popular culture. Topics may include the commodification of sport, media rights, sponsorship, fan cultures, and the representation of sports in journalism and popular entertainment.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P98, SPMA 2P65 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM (PCUL/SPMA) 2P22.
*COMM 3P26
Social and Cultural Aspects of Digital Gaming
(also offered as IASC 3P26 and PCUL 3P26)
Critical investigation of digital gaming, particularly of the interrelationships among past and present games, culture and media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum 9.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20, or IASC 1P04 and 1P05.
#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 BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PSYC (single or combined) majors and PSYC minors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1F90.
COMM 3P51
Language and Public Communication
Constitutive function of language in public affairs. Topics may include the role of language in public discourse, social issues and movements, and social, political and cultural activism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P50 (2F50).
#COMM 3P54
Issues in Documentary Film
(also offered as FILM 3P54 and SOCI 3P54)
Advanced studies in selected aspects of documentary film and other visual media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P54.
*COMM 3P55
Advertising in Context
(also offered as PCUL 3P55)
Methodological and critical approaches to contemporary advertising in its cultural, social and political-economic contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors, MEST and PCUL minors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.
#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 screening.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P56.
COMM 3P62
Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communication
Examination of the public relations process; role, functions, historical evolution and relevance to effective marketing communication strategy.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN majors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): MKTG 2P52.
*COMM 3P63
Digital Design and Communication
(also offered as PCUL 3P63 and WRDS 3P63)
Introduction to digital design focusing on visual communication by using Adobe software and the Macintosh computer.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, WRDS (single or combined) majors, RWRT and WRDS minors with a minimum of 9.0 overall credits.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 3P63.
#COMM 3P73
Popular Music and Youth Culture
(also offered as MUSI 3P73, PCUL 3P73 and SOCI 3P73)
Cultural relation between young people and popular music. Topics include music's role in the formation of identity, the connection between musical taste and various forms of youth fashion or style, and the impact of new technologies on the ways in which young people access music.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P70 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3P75
Cultures of Consumption
(also offered as PCUL 3P75)
Commodities within social life. Topics may include digital consumerism, value creation, modes of exchange, shopping spaces, fashion cycles, consumer identity, status formation, lifestyle construction and ethical consumption debates.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have minimum of 9.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20.
#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 BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PSYC (single or combined) majors and PSYC minors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or 3.0 PSYC credits above PSYC 1F90.
Prerequisite(s): PSYC 1F90.
Note: PSYC 2P30 (2F30) recommended.
*COMM 3P90
Advanced Topics in Digital Culture
(also offered as IASC 3P90)
Contemporary and digital culture issues emerging from industry practices, scholarly research and user activities.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 2P26, 2P90, 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students will work collaboratively on a wiki-based archive of extended book reviews.
COMM 3P91
Information Technology: Policies and Issues
Historical and contemporary perspectives on information policy. Topics may include privacy, security, copyright, intellectual property, open source software, Internet regulation, digital literacy, and universal access.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 2P26, 2P90, 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 3P92
Technology and Culture
(also offered as IASC 3P92 and PCUL 3P92)
Critical analysis of the ways in which culture and technology are mutually productive of one another using historical, contemporary and emerging examples drawn from everyday life.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 2P26, 2P90, 2P91 or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 3P93
Indigenous People in Media and Popular Culture
(also offered as PCUL 3P93 and SOCI 3P93)
Historical and contemporary representations of Indigenous people in mainstream media and popular culture. Indigenous interventions in production of cultural content and media structures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, SOCI (single or combined) majors and MEST minors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 1F90, SOCI 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3P94
Film Genre
(also offered as FILM 3P94 and PCUL 3P94)
Genre theory and its application to popular film.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2P90 (2F90) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3P96
Issues in Popular Culture
(also offered as FILM 3P96 and PCUL 3P96)
Specialized studies in popular culture and its role in specific social, historical or theoretical contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 and 2P21 or FILM 2P90 (2F90).
#COMM 3P97
Gender and Cinema to the 1960s
(also offered as FILM 3P97, PCUL 3P97 and WGST 3P97)
Representation of gender, sexuality, race and class, and implications of spectatorship and ideology.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2P90 (2F90), one-half WGST credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3P98
Gender and Contemporary Cinema
(also offered as FILM 3P98, PCUL 3P98 and WGST 3P98)
Representation of gender, sexuality, race and class via ideology, feminism, queer theory, and spectatorship in film and video texts since the 1960s.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2P90 (2F90), one-half WGST credit numbered 2(alpha)90 or above or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3Q90
Indigenous Cultural Production and Activism
(also offered as DART 3Q90, INDG 3Q90, PCUL 3Q90, SOCI 3Q90 and WGST 3Q90)
Draws on cultural, experiential and theoretical texts to better understand Indigenous epistemologies. Examples include ImagineNative and community arts projects.
Lectures, fieldwork, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 7.0 overall credits.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, DART 1P91, one INDG (ABST) credit, PCUL 1F92, SOCI 1F90, WGST 1F90, 2P00 or permission of the instructor.
Note: students are expected to pay their own expenses.
#COMM 3Q91
The History and Culture of Role-Playing Games
(also offered as PCUL 3Q91)
Tabletop gaming culture from the 1970s to the 2000s. Topics may include realism versus fantasy, moral panics and nostalgia.
Lectures, lab, 3 hours per week
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 or CPCF 1F25.
Note: labs introduce basic game design.
#COMM 3Q92
Food and Popular Culture
(also offered as PCUL 3Q92)
Studies of food in media and everyday life. Topics may include food on screens and in print; celebrity chefs; food and meaning making; cooking and domestic sphere; culture and table manners; taste; political economy of food; contemporary food rituals; dietary subcultures.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
COMM 3Q93
Issues in International Communication
Current theory and research in international communication; evolution of communication networks and global media flows within their historical, political and economic contexts.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN majors and MEST minors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits.
#COMM 3Q94
Television Genres
(also offered as FILM 3Q94 and PCUL 3Q94)
Genre theory and its application to popular television.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week; plus weekly screening.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 and 2P21, FILM 2P90 (2F90) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 3Q95
Issues in Intercultural Communication
Current theory and research in intercultural communication; relationship between communication and culture; comparison of communication codes and norms emphasizing face-to-face interaction.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P50 (2F50) or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 3Q97
Events Management
(also offered as PCUL 3Q97 and TOUR 3Q97)
Introduction to events management. Topics include event types and contexts; conceptualization, planning and design; marketing and sponsorship; budgeting and financial management; managing human and volunteer resources; staging and logistics; risk management, evaluation and sustainability.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined), PCUL, TMGT and TREN majors with a minimum of 8.0 overall credits until date specified in Registration guide.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 or TOUR 2P31.
*COMM 3Q98
The Psychology of Screens (Television and Beyond)
(also offered as IASC 3Q98, PCUL 3Q98 and PSYC 3Q98)
Cognitive responses to mediated communication including television and new/emerging information and communication technologies. Focus on cognitive effects, theories and research.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: students must have a minimum of 8.0 overall credits or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 1F90, IASC 1F01, IASC 1P04 and 1P05, PSYC 1F90 or permission of the instructor.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM (PCUL/PSYC) 3P95 and COMM 3Q20.
COMM 3V50-3V59
Special Topics in Communication Studies
Topics selected on the basis of instructional expertise and student interest.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P50 (2F50), 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
COMM 3V90-3V99
Advanced Topics in Communication Studies
Topics selected on the basis of instructional expertise and student interest.
Lectures, screening, seminar, 5 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 3V90
2019-2020: The Superhero in American Culture
(also offered as FILM 3V90 and PCUL 3V90)
The superhero as a cultural symbol. Topics include historical contexts, theories of genre and issues of representation. Examples drawn from comic books, cartoons, television shows and films from the mid-1930s to the present.
Lectures, screening, seminar, 5 hours per week.
#COMM 3V92
2019-2020: Social Activism and Culture in Canada and the United States
(also offered as CANA 3V92, FILM 3V92 and PCUL 3V92)
Cross-cultural study of social activism and its rhetorical functions in Canada and the United States. Students will analyze howpublic communication texts and media representations such as speeches, manifestos, narratives, music, memoirs, and film reflectsocial change. Case studies will be drawn from activism about race/ethnicity; Indigenous mascotting; gender and sexualities; andenvironmentalism.
Lecture, Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Prerequisite(s): CANA 2P91 and 2P92 (2F91) or COMM 2P50 and PCUL 2P20 or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4F80
Directed Reading
Directed individual or group reading in an area of Communication Studies.
Restriction: open to BMCN, COMM and MCMN 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 contract, 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 BCMN, COMM and MCMN 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 contract, 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 4F80 directed reading.
#COMM 4P03
Applied Studies in Popular Narrative
(also offered as ENGL 4P03, FILM 4P03 and PCUL 4P03)
Practical, historical and theoretical approaches to popular narratives.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior), FILM (single or combined), PCUL and WRDS (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours).
Prerequisite(s): COMM 3P03.
#COMM 4P10
Language and Discourse: Theory and Practice
(also offered as ENGL 4P10 and WRDS 4P10)
Analysis of the relation between stylistic features and discursive contexts; encoding and enacting of social worlds and relations in text (both literary and non-literary); introduction to the field of discourse studies in general, emphasizing critical discourse analysis.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to ECUL, ENCW (single or combined), ENGL (single or combined), ENGL (Honours)/BEd (Intermediate/Senior) and WRDS (single or combined) majors until date specified in Registration guide. Students must have approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor and the Chair.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in WRIT 4P10.
*COMM 4P14
Advanced Research in Cultural Industries
(also offered as PCUL 4P14)
Advanced research into the national and international development, operations, and political economy of a single cultural industry. Topics may include press, periodicals, radio, music, film, television or interactive media industries.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and MEST minors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 4P18
Media and the Natural Environment
(also offered as PCUL 4P18)
Media constructions of the natural environment, environmental movements and environmental issues such as pollution, climate change and consumerism.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL majors and MEST minors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 4P23
Research on Media and Popular Culture
(also offered as PCUL 4P23 and SOCI 4P23)
Advanced research seminar on the relations between mass media and popular culture.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, PCUL, SOCI (single or combined) majors, MEST, CRAS and SOCI minors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 2P98 (3P14) or 3P15.
#COMM 4P28
Special Topics in Video Production
(also offered as FILM 4P28)
Theory, practice and technique of filmmaking, focusing on idea development, creative process and methods of production.
Workshop, seminar, 3 hours per week; additional production time as required.
Restriction: permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): three FILM credits.
Note: enrolment limited to 15 students. Materials fee required.
#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, referencing the work of the Frankfurt School, French Structuralism and British Cultural Studies.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined), PCUL 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, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors 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 BCMN, COMM, MCMN 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(s): COMM 3P17 or permission of the instructor.
Note: POLI 2F30 strongly recommended.
COMM 4P33
Gender and Communication
Scholarly theory, social scientific studies, and critical analyses of gender and communication across a range of contexts, including personal relationships, organizations and the media. Application of course material to everyday communication and interaction.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 4P34
Taste and Cultural Politics
(also offered as FILM 4P34 and PCUL 4P34)
Application of cultural theories to the analysis of taste, distinction, class, cultural standards and moral panics, transgression and trash culture.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BMCN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4P35
Data and Society
Topics may include open data, big data, social media and algorithms.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Note: students will analyse a data set and apply their findings.
COMM 4P50
Ethnography of Communication
Anthropological approaches to cultural variations in communication, 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 BCMN, COMM and MCMN 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 BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4P53
Interpersonal Dialogue
Theories of dialogue developed for relational communication and their application to relational processes such as listening and conflict.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 4P55
History of Advertising
(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 BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 4P59
Writing Cultural Criticism for the Media
(also offered as FILM 4P59 and PCUL 4P59)
Skills and techniques of reviewing and discussing film and other aspects of popular culture for mass media.
Lectures, seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single and combined) and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
Note: weekly writing assignments discussed in a workshop context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM (FILM/PCUL) 4V59.
#COMM 4P61
Conventions of Screen Realism
(also offered as FILM 4P61 and PCUL 4P61)
How representation and perception of reality have evolved with technology and aesthetics, from the Lumières to reality television.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4P65
Special Topics in Business Communication I
Contemporary issues for business or nonprofit organizations, such as digital communications, crisis communications, ethics or organizational communication.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4P66
Special Topics in Business Communication II
Contemporary issues for business or nonprofit organizations, such as digital communications, crisis communications, ethics or organizational communication.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4P90
Advanced Research in Digital Culture
Advanced research on the social and cultural implications of computer mediated communication and digital media.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) and permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): one of COMM 3P90, 3P91, 3P92.
COMM 4P91
Directed Reading in Digital Culture
Tutorial combined with one or more research papers or projects in an area of Digital Culture 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 contract signed by the faculty member to the Undergraduate Program Adviser before registration.
COMM 4V50-4V59
Contemporary Research in Communication Studies
Special topics in contemporary communication research.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4V52
2019-2020: Cultures of Entrepreneurialism
Critical approaches to key texts and practices regarding starting a new business, venture or pursuing new ideas. Topics may include discourses of leadership, negotiation, management of problems, priorities, people, tasks and time.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
*COMM 4V56
2019-2020: Cybernetic Culture(s)
(also offered as FILM 4V56 and PCUL 4V56)
Historical and contemporary influence of cybernetic technologies on sociocultural practices. Wearables, A.I., machine learningand collective intelligence technologies. Topics include the impact of technology on concepts of subjectivity, popularrepresentations of automata and cyborgs and a survey of posthuman theories, practices and sub-cultures.
Seminar 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) orpermission of the instructor.
#COMM 4V58
2019-2020: Environmental Film and Ecocinema: History, Theory and Practice
(also offered as FILM 4V58 and PCUL 4V58)
Intersections between film, media and culture, and the broader social, scientific and geopolitical concerns of global environmental change.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 4 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) and PCUL majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4V60-4V69
Historical Perspectives in Communication Studies
Special topics in communication history.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
COMM 4V70-4V79
Special Topics in International Communication
Special topics in international communication.
Seminar, 3 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM and MCMN majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
#COMM 4V73
2019-2020: Sexualities and Machismo in Latin American and Spanish Film
(also offered as FILM 4V73 and PCUL 4V73)
Cultural construct of Latin American machismo. Different embodiments of machismo informed by gender, sexuality, feminist and masculinity studies. Issues around race, class and socio-politics in examples of national and regional films.
Lectures, seminar, screening, 5 hours per week.
Restriction: open to BCMN, COMM, MCMN, FILM (single or combined) majors with approval to year 4 (honours) or permission of the instructor.
INTERNSHIP COURSES
COMM 4F00
Internship in Communication, Popular Culture or Film
Part-time placement related to communication, popular culture or film in a company, agency or not-for-profit organization. Students are responsible for arranging their own placements in consultation with the department Academic Adviser and Internship Co-ordinator.
Tutorial, regularly scheduled meetings, 160 hour placement.
Restriction: open to BCMN and MCMN majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Note: enrolment is limited. Students will be required to complete a major paper setting the placement experience within a theoretical context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM 4P00, 4P01, FILM 4F00, 4P00, 4P01, PCUL 4F00, 4P00 and 4P01.
COMM 4P00
Placement in Communication, Popular Culture or Film
Part-time placement related to communication, popular culture or film in a company, agency or not-for-profit organization. Students are responsible for arranging their own placements in consultation with the department Academic Adviser and Internship Co-ordinator.
Tutorial, regularly scheduled meetings, 80 hour placement.
Restriction: open to BCMN and MCMN majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Note: enrolment is limited. Students will be required to complete a major paper setting the placement within a theoretical context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM 4F00, FILM 4F00, 4P00, 4P01, PCUL 4F00, 4P00 and 4P01.
COMM 4P01
Placement in Communication, Popular Culture or Film
Part-time placement related to communication, popular culture or film in a company, agency or not-for-profit organization. Students are responsible for arranging their own placements in consultation with the department Academic Adviser and Internship Co-ordinator.
Tutorial, regularly scheduled meetings, 80 hour placement.
Restriction: open to BCMN and MCMN majors with a minimum of 13.5 overall credits and permission of the Department.
Prerequisite(s): COMM 4P00.
Note: enrolment is limited. Students will be required to complete a major paper setting the placement within a theoretical context.
Completion of this course will replace previous assigned grade and credit obtained in COMM 4F00, FILM 4F00, 4P00, 4P01, PCUL 4F00, 4P00 and 4P01.
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