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Hone professionally relevant communication and creative skills while learning about the roles, messages and impacts of social media, entertainment, advertising and the news in society. Is social media changing the world for better or worse? How do smartphones shape the way we think and behave? Can popular culture create and challenge stereotypes? Why are ads so effective at persuading people to buy? Communications and digital media are everywhere and in everything. Journalists, public affairs officers, content creators, entertainment makers, branding experts, digital storytellers, social media influencers, consumers, citizens and activists use all kinds of media every day to produce, send, and receive digital messages and images about the world, to change it in some way. In the CDMS program, you will develop specialized knowledge about the fast-changing communication and digital media environment in which we live, work, shop, and play, analyze the social dimensions and impacts of many media forms, and hone professional communication and digital media skills linked to thousands of new and exciting careers. You will become a strong communicator who is able to present your ideas in a variety of forms such as research essays, case studies, journals, blogs, videos, digital stories, memes and mini-TED Talks. Show less

Sample courses
COMM 1100U – Introduction to Communication and Digital Media Studies
COMM 1320U – Public Speaking and Multimedia Presentation for Web 3.0
COMM 1420U – Living Digitally: Social Media, Culture & Society
SSCI 1910U – Writing for the Social Sciences
CRMN 1000U – Introduction to Criminology and Justice
LGLS 1000U – Foundations of Legal Studies
POSC 1000U – Introduction to Political Science
POSC 1200U – Introduction to Democracy in Theory & Practice
PSYC 1000U – Introductory Psychology
COMM 2110U – Communication and Digital Media Theory: Keyworks
COMM 2210U – Researching Communication and Digital Culture
COMM 2311U – The Creative Industries: Ideas, Art, Tech, Money, Power
COMM 2410U – Social History of Communication and Media Technologies
COMM 2411U – Governing Communication and Digital Creativity: Policy for an era of Digital Disruption
COMM 2620U – Professional Communication
COMM 3110U – Communication Ethics: Making Media for the Social Good
COMM 3610U – Strategic Communications for Influence: Rhetoric, Persuasion and Propaganda
COMM 3720U – Knowing Your Audience: Audience Studies for Media Professionals and Creators
COMM 4130U – Capstone Creator Project
COMM 2220U – The Media, Creativity and Culture in Canada
COMM 2240U – Television
COMM 2270U – Entertainment Goes Global: from Hollywood to the World
COMM 2530U – Advertising as Social Communication
LBAT 2413U – Science Communication: Media for creative, fun, and effective STEM communication
COMM 3250U – Pop Culture and Entertainment
COMM 3310U – Communication for Social Change, Community and Development
COMM 3350U – Environmental Communication: Media and Tech for Sustainability
COMM 3410U – Designing Hits: Storytelling in the Digital Age
COMM 3510U – Work in the Creative and Tech Industries
COMM 3710U – Media, Identity and Intercultural Communication
COMM 3740U – Video Games, Media and Culture
COMM 4120U – AI. Ethics and Communication
COMM 4140U – Ways of Seeing: Visual Communication Arts and New Media
COMM 4210U – Special Topics in Communication and Digital Media Studies
COMM 4261U – Online Creator-Entrepreneurs: YouTubers, Influencers, and Streamers
COMM 4420U – Political Communication, Digital Media and Democracy
COMM 4510U – Public Relations: Social Power, Social Media Platforms, and Social Responsibility
COMM 4530U – Media Activism and Protest Cultures
COMM 4610U – The Struggle is Real: Transformation for Communication, Conflict, and Peace
COMM 4710U – Global Media, the Internet and International Relations
POSC 3751U – Media, War and Conflict
For program requirements, including required number of credits for completion, program maps and course descriptions, please see the academic calendar and course catalogue of Communication and Digital Media Studies. Courses are subject to change without notice.

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You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

How to book:

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it

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