西蒙弗雷澤大學(xué)

Anthropology and communication overlap in many concerns: nature, production, commodification, and politics of culture; communicative processes and social identity, class, gender, etc. This joint major is for those who share these common interests.

The Anthropology and Communication program is a joint major between the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology.

Communication Areas of Concentration

Media and Culture

Explores the history and contexts of media institutions, practices, texts and discourses with particular concern for the way they affect the meaning and experience of culture.

CMNS 220 - Understanding Television (3)
CMNS 221 - Media and Popular Cultures (3)
CMNS 223W - Advertising as Social Communication (3)
CMNS 235 - News Media, the Public, and Democracy (3)

Technology and Society

Analyzes topics within the broader field of communication through a focus on information and communication technologies and the knowledge society from the standpoint of scholarship in science and technology studies.

CMNS 253W - Introduction to Information Technology: The New Media (3)

Political Economy and Policy

Explores the contested economic, political, and regulatory processes shaping media institutions and communication processes.

CMNS 230 - The Cultural Industries in Canada: Global Context (3)
CMNS 240 - The Political Economy of Communication (3)

Career possibilities

The world is changing rapidly and you have no way of knowing the full range of career opportunities available to you in the future. Graduates of this program may end up in a range of occupations, including these:

Aboriginal Relations Officer
Archive Assistant
Community Development Officer
Cultural Analyst
Ethnographer Assistant
Exhibit Assistant
Foreign Service Officer
Human Rights Officer
Labour Relations Researcher
Multiculturalism Educator
Museum Technician
Program Coordinator
Project Officer
Public Policy Analyst
Rural Development Officer
Social Survey Researcher
Travel Writer
Web Market Researcher