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

Jeremy Hunsinger jhuns at vt.edu
Mon Nov 28 12:20:15 PST 2016


Call for Applications: MA in Communication Studies, WLU

*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 programoffers 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

Follow us on Twitter
@LaurierCommGrad <https://twitter.com/LaurierCommGrad>

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​



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