GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR (CM5097)

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This graduate course focuses each semester on a topic of current research within the field of communications. Each week, the topic will be explored in a dual format: a seminar accompanied by a guest lecture by a different researcher in the field. The course aims to provide a comprehensive overview of debates of contemporary relevance to communications scholarship.

Code: 
CM5097
Name: 
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
Major=MA: Global Communications OR Major=MA: Global Comm. (Development Communications) OR Major=MA: Global Comm. (Digital Cultures and Industries) OR Major=MA: Global Comm. (Fashion Track) OR Major=MA: Global Comm. (Visual & Material Culture Track)
Co-requisites: 
None

Learning Outcomes

  1. Perceive the significance and role of emotion and affect in contemporary communications and media;
  2. Gain greater familiarity with affect studies and a range of disciplinary understandings of emotion;
  3. Understand the impact of emotional and affective design in social, cultural and political communications contexts;
  4. Understand emotional branding and the role of emotion in marketing, promotion and public relations;
  5. Apply emotion and affect theory and concepts to communication and media cases studies
  6. Engage with critical perspectives on affect and emotion within Communication, Media & Cultural Studies;

Offering(s)

Term Code Name
Spring 2020 CM5097 GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH SEMINAR

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