Communication and Culture (MA, PhD)
Master
In Toronto (Canada)
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Toronto (Canada)
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Duration
Flexible
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Start date
Different dates available
This unique partnership between two universities combines expertise and opportunities for advanced study of media and cultural technologies, as well as communication politics in practice and theory. The two-year, full- or part-time MA program combines academic and professional work through independent research in theory-building, media practice or policy implications. The full-time PhD program provides a thorough grounding in theory and method, and the practices, processes and technologies of contemporary, media-immersed cultures.
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About this course
Completion of a four-year undergraduate (or equivalent degree) from an accredited institution
Minimum grade point average (GPA) or equivalent of 3.33/4.33 (B+) in the last two years of study
Statement of research interest
Resumé/CV
Transcripts
Two letters of recommendation
English language proficiency requirement
Writing sample
Completion of a master’s degree from an accredited institution
Minimum grade point average (GPA) or equivalent of 3.33/4.33 (B+)
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Subjects
- Politics
- Communication Training
- Media
- Technicity
- Accelerating
- Communication
- Technology
- Culture
- Modernity
- Socio-technical
- Interdisciplinary
Course programme
- Accelerating Technicity
- Activist Video Making
- Advanced Communication Technology
- Advanced Research Methodologies
- Armed Conflict, Peace and Media
- Asian Studies Perspectives
- Bodies in Technology
- Body and Culture Of Modernity
- Cinema and Media: Key Concepts
- Communication and Culture: An Interdisciplinary Approach
- Communication and the Sociotechnical
- Contemporary Theory In Visual Arts
- Cultural Policy
- Cultural Production Workshop
- Culture and The Environment
- Cultures of Sexuality and Gender
- Design and Research Theory
- Digital Games and Learning
- Field Placement (MA)
- Future Cinema
- History of News
- Media Democracy
- Media Ethics
- Media History
- Perspectives in Communication and Culture
- Photographic Vision and Practice
- Political Economy of Media
- Politics of Aesthetics
- Popular Music Studies
- Reading Film
- Reading Television
- Research Methodologies
- Social and Cultural Implications of New Media
- Social Theory and Communication Processes
- Visual Culture
- Media and Culture: the confluence of media and culture and their relationships within social systems.
- Politics and Policy: the critical role of the state and civil society in the development of communication systems, the production and distribution of culture, and issues of societal power.
- Technology in Practice: the development, application, and influence of historical, current and emerging communication technologies in cultural production, both personal and organizational.
- Centre for Digital Humanities
- Infoscape Research Lab
- Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery
- Ryerson Image Centre
Communication and Culture (MA, PhD)