AP/CMDS 3551 3.00 Advanced Issues in Digital Media and Culture

This course investigates some of the transformative effects of digital communications technologies within realms of culture as diverse as politics, romance and mating, industry, medical and pharmaceutical practice, commerce, finance, the arts, scientific enquiry, and contemporary warfare. Relevant to class discussions are phenomena such as world order transformation, cybernetics and automation, interoperability, databases, computer modeling, […]

AP/CMDS 3550 3.00 Digital Media and Culture

Examines the origins and development of forms of digital media and culture with particular emphasis on how they differ from pre-digital or "analog" cultural forms. Upon establishing our theoretical foundations for considering new media as technology and culture, we investigate the historical development of digital technology and some of the transformative effects it has had, […]

AP/CMDS 3517 3.00 Doing Bodies/Doing Technology

This course explores the ways in which interacting, producing and consuming technology also affects how bodies and identities are enacted, experienced, produced and theorized. It challenges students to think creatively about the ways in which science and technology are transforming how we think and talk about the body and by extension about personhood and subjectivity. […]

AP/CMDS 3252 3.00 Ethics and the Media

Examines challenges to ethical behaviour and normative intentions posed by the institutional imperatives of the modern media corporation. Explores the ethical relationships of the media corporation and the people it employs with the communities being served. Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 3352 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012). Previously offered as: AP/COMN 3252 3.00.

AP/CMDS 3250 3.00 Communication Policy I: A Comparative Introduction

Introduces students to the politics of policy making across communication, including press, broadcasting and telecommunication, with an emphasis on the Anglo-American democracies. Course credit exclusion: AP/COMN 3350 3.00 (prior to Fall 2012).

AP/CMDS 3204 3.00 Public Diplomacy as Communication

Examines "public diplomacy" as communication and cultural strategies used by states to promote "national interests" and foreign policy goals through understanding, interacting with, informing and influencing publics worldwide. Case studies of various states will be examined including the history, theory, organization, policies and practices of public diplomacy with a particular focus on the United States. […]

AP/CMDS 2700 3.00 Media, Culture and Society

This course explores the individual and collective significance of the role of communications in culture and society. Various historical, theoretical and methodological approaches are introduced as ways to analyze the impact of communications media in everyday life. Prerequisite: AP/CMDS 1000 6.00. Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 2314 6.00 (Prior to Fall 2012), AP/COMN 2314 9.00 (prior […]

AP/CMDS 2500 3.00 Information and Technology

This course focuses on critical stances with which to view our society's preoccupation with information and technology. Different models and theoretical approaches are used to understand how information and technology affect social change. Prerequisite: AP/CMDS 1000 6.00. Course credit exclusions: AP/COMN 2312 6.00 (prior to Fall 2012), AP/COMN 2312 9.00 (prior to Fall 2012), AP/CMDS […]

AP/CMDS 2200 3.00 Introduction to Politics, Policy and the Media

This course analyzes the relations between popular media, communication technologies and power. The role of the state, market and civil society in the development of communication systems, and the production and distribution of culture are examined, with special attention paid to Canada. Prerequisite: AP/CMDS 1000 6.00. Course credit exclusion: AP/COMN 2313 6.00 (prior to Fall […]

AP/CMDS 1410 3.00 Sport Media

This course explores the relationship between sport cultures and media practices. Key topics include media representations of athletes; fandom; the business of sport media; sport and social justice; and the development of sport media over time. Students taking this course will study a wide range of sports (e.g. football, soccer, dance and gymnastics) and media […]