[Air-L] FW: Call for applications: MA in Communication Studies, WLU

Andrew Herman aherman at wlu.ca
Fri Dec 9 05:47:40 PST 2016


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Call for applications
M.A. in Communication Studies
Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo

Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017 (for first consideration)

The Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University welcomes applications to its M.A. program. The program offers a co-op option as well as critical engagement with core perspectives in communication studies and contemporary research methodologies and practices. Our interdisciplinary faculty members are established and emerging researchers in their areas of specialization, conducting research on topics such as mobile and social media, visual communication, media history, Internet studies, transnationalism, cultural policy, alternative media, and creative industries.

Students in the one-year, full-time program typically take three courses in the Fall and Winter terms and complete a Major Research Paper in the Spring/Summer. Students registered in the co-op program generally complete the co-op placement in the Spring/Summer term and the Major Research Paper the following Fall.

All applicants are considered for an entrance scholarship, and M.A. students are regularly employed as Teaching Assistants in undergraduate Communication Studies courses. Students also have the opportunity to work as Research Assistants to funded faculty members. Students who hold a major external award (e.g., SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship) are eligible for additional scholarship funding.

Based in a growing department, the M.A. Program in Communication Studies is offered at Laurier’s campus in Waterloo, Ontario, a university-oriented region with a thriving media technology sector.

Graduates have pursued doctoral studies and launched professional communication careers in a variety of private, public sector, and non-profit organizations.

Further information
Program website<http://www.wlu.ca/programs/arts/graduate/communication-studies-ma/index.html>

Contact
Alexandra Boutros
Graduate Program Coordinator
aboutros at wlu.ca<http://aboutros@wlu.ca/>

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Courses for 2017-18

Critical Theory
Video Game Studies
Risk, Media and Science
Representations of the Real
Communication Studies Research Methods
Graduate Seminar in Communication Studies

Graduate Faculty

Alexandra Boutros (Ph.D., McGill University)
critical race theory, digital technology, transnationalism and diaspora, religion and media

Greig de Peuter (Ph.D., Simon Fraser University)
political economy, labour, creative industries, video games

Jonathan Finn (Ph.D., University of Rochester)
visual communication and culture, visual evidence, sport studies

Jenna Hennebry (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario)
international migration, mobility, globalization, transnationalism, human rights

Andrew Herman (Ph.D., Boston College)
materialist mobile media/internet studies/methodologies
Paul Heyer (Ph.D., Rutgers University)
media history (film, radio, television), nonverbal communication

Jeremy Hunsinger (Ph.D., Virginia Tech)
internet studies, virtual worlds, digital games, technology studies, interpretive methods

Penelope Ironstone (Ph.D., York University)
risk/health communication, gender/queer media, cultural theory

Barbara Jenkins (Ph.D., Yale University)
political economy, visual culture, cultural policy, museums

Anne-Marie Kinahan (Ph.D., Carleton University)
visual communication, print culture, communication history, feminism

Sara Matthews (Ph.D., York University)
war, memory, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, social conflict museums, public pedagogy
Jade Miller (Ph.D., University of Southern California)
global media, media industries, urban studies, political economy
Martin Morris (Ph.D., York University)
communications thought, social and political theory, popular culture
Judith Nicholson (Ph.D., Concordia University)
mobilities, race and media, human-animal studies
Herbert Pimlott (Ph.D., Goldsmiths College, University of London)
alternative media, cultural politics, public communication
Nathan Rambukkana (Ph.D., Concordia University)
discourse analysis, digital intimacies, critical race theory, the public sphere, hybridity

Ian Roderick (Ph.D., Monash University)
visual communication, technology, semiotics, sociolinguistics

Peter Urquhart (Ph.D., McGill University)
television, film, media history, visual communication​​​​​






alexandra boutros, phd | associate professor, communication studies | graduate coordinator, communication studies | wilfrid laurier university | book review editor, TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies | 519.884.0710 x2917 | aboutros at wlu.ca<mailto:aboutros at wlu.ca> |http://topia.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/topia/booksForReview




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