Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Communication, Media and Film (NKM)

University of Windsor

Program Description

Media is all around us. Humans are now, more than ever, individually and collectively immersed in mediated environments, forever connected to social networks, constantly communicating via new media platforms and mobile devices, and consuming the products of media culture in ways that were once unimaginable. The content people receive and create through these various media influence how they think, what they think about, how they conduct their everyday lives and experience the world.

Students in Communication, Media and Film are at the centre of exploring the most dynamic changes in an increasingly complex media landscape as well as the broader cultural, social, economic and political implications of contemporary and emergent technologies.

• Provides state-of-the-art facilities that feature industry standard equipment and software for students interested in digital media production
• Offers opportunities for internship placements to obtain hands-on experience in such areas as: media production/post-production; advertising, marketing and public relations; audience research; public advocacy; and community/alternative media
• Prepares students for a vast array of professional careers in the media/ cultural industries, advertising/PR and the ever-expanding digital/ creative economy

Communication, Media and Film at the University of Windsor offers an innovative curriculum—blending theory and practice— so that students acquire the skills necessary to interpret and critically engage this media saturated world. The University of Windsor offers a four-year Honours BA in Communication, Media and Film and a three-year General BA in Communication, Media and Film.

Additionally, the University of Windsor offer combined honours programs in Communication, Media and Film and Dramatic Art; Communication, Media and Film and Visual Arts; and other combined honours programs, where Communication, Media and Film can be paired with other subjects including English, political science, sociology, history, and many others.

Students can customize their postsecondary education by focusing on one or more “Paths of Study” such as: new/social media and digital culture; digital media production; advertising, public relations and social/new media message design; popular culture and media literacy; film studies and cinema history, communication theory, policy and research methods. Or, students can take a variety of courses from any of these areas, depending on their interests and professional goals.

This program will give students a comprehensive understanding of the converged media environment and enable them to develop the conceptual and creative proficiencies necessary to pursue a broad range of careers in media-related fields. Those interested in media production are able to expand their artistic imaginations and gain industry standard training to make their own media, to find their own voice, and to tell their own stories across a variety of digital formats.