[acc-cca-l] WLU: Call for Applications, Communication Studies MA program (Jan. 15 deadline)

[Sylvia Hoang]

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

Deadlines:
January 15, 2020: Co-op Stream Closes (no applications accepted after this date)
January 15, 2020: Applications for first consideration to regular stream MA program due

Apply here<https://www.wlu.ca/admissions-toolkits/graduate-admissions-toolkit/index.html>.

The Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University welcomes applications to its MA program.
Our program offers critical engagement with core perspectives in communication studies as well as contemporary research methodologies and practices. Students in the one-year, full-time program typically take three courses each term (Fall and Winter) and complete a Major Research Paper in the Spring/Summer. Students may also seek permission to take the Thesis or Course Work option.

Our courses for the 2020/2021 academic year are:

Network Cultures
Platform Studies
Social/Media/Power
Visual Communication & Culture
Communication Studies Research Methods
Graduate Seminar in Communication Studies

We have a large, supportive and interdisciplinary faculty consisting of established and emerging researchers in areas of specialization that include mobile and social media, visual communication, media history, Internet studies, transnationalism, cultural policy, mobilities, digital media, and creative industries. Our MA cohorts are generally small and the Communication Studies department has on campus facilities that support student research, including a media lab. The MA Program in Communication Studies is offered at Laurier’s campus in Waterloo, Ontario, a university-oriented region with a thriving media technology sector.

All applicants are considered for an entrance scholarship. MA students are employed as Teaching Assistants in undergraduate Communication Studies courses, and 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. In addition, our program offers a co-op option.

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

For more information, see our website here: CS MA at Laurier<https://www.wlu.ca/programs/arts/graduate/communication-studies-ma/index.html>. Or contact Dr. Jenna Hennebry, Graduate Program Coordinator, at jhennebry at wlu.ca<mailto:jhennebry at wlu.ca>.

Graduate Faculty
Alexandra Boutros (PhD, McGill University)
critical race theory, digital technology, transnationalism and diaspora, religion and media, popular culture, popular music
Greig de Peuter (PhD, Simon Fraser University)
political economy, labour, creative industries, video games
Jonathan Finn (PhD, University of Rochester)
visual communication and culture, visual evidence, sport studies
Jenna Hennebry (PhD, University of Western Ontario)
international migration, mobility, globalization, transnationalism, gender
Andrew Herman (PhD, Boston College)
materialist mobile media/internet studies/methodologies
Jeremy Hunsinger (PhD, Virginia Tech)
internet studies, digital games, technology studies, interpretive methods
Penelope Ironstone (PhD, York University)
risk/health communication, science communication, gender/queer media, social and cultural theory
Barbara Jenkins (PhD, Yale University)
political economy, visual culture, cultural policy, museums
Anne-Marie Kinahan (PhD, Carleton University)
visual communication, print culture, communication history, feminism
Sara Matthews (PhD, York University)
critical security studies, surveillance, museum studies, memory, visual culture, dystopias/utopias, postcolonial theory
Jade Miller (PhD, University of Southern California)
Global media, media industries, global cities, African video industries
Martin Morris (PhD, York University)
communications thought, social and political theory, popular culture
Judith Nicholson (PhD, Concordia University)
mobilities, race and media, human-animal studies
Herbert Pimlott (PhD, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
alternative media, cultural politics, public communication
Nathan Rambukkana (PhD, Concordia University)
discourse analysis, digital intimacies, critical race theory, the public sphere, hybridity
Ian Roderick (PhD, Monash University)
visual communication, technology, semiotics, sociolinguistics
Karen Stote (PhD, University of New Brunswick)
intersectional feminism(s), gender and social justice, Indigenous-settler relations, coerced sterilization
Peter Urquhart (PhD, McGill University)
television, film, media history, visual communication

SYLVIA HOANG
Administrative Assistant
Communication Studies & Cultural Studies
Faculty of Arts
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3C5
Office: 3-134, Dr. Alvin Woods Building
519.884.0710 x2806
wlu.ca/arts/communicationstudies
wlu.ca/arts/culturalstudies


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