PhD - Core Courses (required for all PhD students)
CMCT 7000 3.0: Perspectives in Communication and Cultural Studies.
This course provides an advanced exploration of the major theories and research approaches in the field, with particular attention to a critical assessment of contemporary theories and methods.
Doctoral Core course. Same as Ryerson CC 9904.
CMCT 7200 3.0: Advanced Research Methods Workshop. [Pending Approval]
The principal aim of this course is to cultivate in students a critical research sensibility that addresses questions of communication and culture and their intersection, with research being defined as an engaged process of enquiry and discovery that leads to the production of social knowledge. In that it is possible to engage an object of study in a variety of ways, different models of reality will necessarily lead to (1) different propositions about what communicational reality is, and with this (2) different ways of establishing what can be accepted as real, (3) different ways of justifying the data relevant to reality, and (4) different strategies for collecting such data. Respectively, these four aspects of investigation and understanding have been designated ontology, epistemology, methodology and methods. The underlying point here is that the choice of method depends on earlier, often tacit, assumptions about the nature of knowledge itself. In a tightly and intimately bound relationship that cuts across these four aspects, research methods are justified by research methodology, methodology presupposes a particular kind of relationship between philosophy and research, and philosophy judges and validates claims to knowledge advanced by research. The reality of conducting research is that, no matter how hard we try to dismiss it, we cannot avoid philosophy.
Doctoral Core Course. Same as Ryerson CC (tba)
CMCT 7300 0.0 PhD Seminar in Communication Research and Practice.
This seminar presents an overview of current work in the field and features presentations by faculty and students in the programme on their current and proposed projects. It explores current approaches and perspectives in policy analysis and applied research in communication and culture.
No course credit. Doctoral Level. Same as Ryerson CC 9903.
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Core Courses
• MA - Core Courses
• PhD - Core Courses
Fields of Study and related Foundation Courses
• Media & Culture
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Politics & Policy
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Technology in Practice
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Independent Study Courses
Elective Courses
• Com Cult Program Course Descriptions (pdf)
• Other York University Courses
TIMETABLES
• Summer 2012 *
• Winter 2012 *
* Subject to change *
