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
Credits
4
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
Can be taken twice for credit?
No
Discipline
CM (Communications)
Level
Graduate
Type
Regular
CAMS ID
4341
Last update with CAMS
Perceive the significance and role of emotion and affect in contemporary communications and media;
Gain greater familiarity with affect studies and a range of disciplinary understandings of emotion;
Understand the impact of emotional and affective design in social, cultural and political communications contexts;
Understand emotional branding and the role of emotion in marketing, promotion and public relations;
Apply emotion and affect theory and concepts to communication and media cases studies
Engage with critical perspectives on affect and emotion within Communication, Media & Cultural Studies;
Term Code Name
Spring 2021 CM5097 GRADUATE RESEARCH SEMINAR: SOVEREIGNTY & VISUALITY