| source University of Toronto, Mississauga (X) |
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department Communication, Culture and Information Technology (X) |
This course examines the historical evolution of communication technologies. The course will consider the evolution of language, the invention of writing, and the impact on society and culture that resulted from the invention of the printing press, the telegraph, the telephone, radio, recordings, television, and computers.
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This course examines different communication technologies through the analysis of different genres. The course considers contemporary written, visual, oral, electronic and musical forms. It will illustrate a range of theoretical perspectives that seek to explain the relationship between communication and technology. [
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The route to global cooperation or global collision. This course will use a case-based approach to the study of the impact of globalization and information technologies on the formulation of relationships between people of diverse racial, ethnic, national, linguistic, and religious backgrounds. The challenges that globalization, new information and communication technologies present to traditional, culturally bound beliefs and values. The critical function of socio-cultural, socio-psychological, and historical variables in the creation of belief and value systems.
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Introduction to the sensory, perceptual, and cognitive systems and their significance to human-human and human-machine communication.
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An introduction to the role of design thinking in the communication of information. Emphasizes creative and critical thinking in the design process; provides the student with the theory and operational skills necessary to improve design process and problem-solving abilities. [
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An examination of the problems caused by the introduction of digital and computing technologies to modern culture. Topics range from the social and cultural outcomes of media convergence; effects of the digital revolution in communications technologies; the impact of miniaturization on the application of computing technologies; the relevance of virtual environments; the interplay between pre-industrial, industrial and information cultures. [
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This course will provide a detailed review of copyright, trademark and patent law with a special emphasis on how they apply to digital media. This course will also review the law of contract as it applies to digital industries and investigate the relevant tort law. In addition, other regulatory issues will be discussed such as telecommunications and broadcasting law both from a Canadian and an international perspective. [
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Introduces students to histories and theories of urban spaces emphasizing the modern city. Drawing from history, architecture, geography, and media studies, the course explores how urban change is evident in the spaces, forms, and sounds of the modern city. Case studies of specific urban environments depending on instructor's research emphasis. [
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The course is a critical survey of theory and research in the field of communications. A central goal of the course is to train students to write effectively about theoretical and research issues. Assessment will be based on written assignments. [
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How written or spoken statements, gestures, and aesthetic objects come to have meanings. How we recognize and fail to recognize such meanings. The nature, systems, and processes of interpretation. The role of mental models. [
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A study of the systems and processes of verbal and non-verbal communication through the science that investigates the comprehension and production of signs. Sign systems in a variety of contemporary modes and genres (language, literature, cinema, advertising, the media, art, and gestures) will be scrutinized through the works of major semioticians such as Barthes, Eco, Greimas, Morris, Sebeok, among others. Their research will be discussed and applied to various types of representation and communication, from magazine ads to high art. [
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This course will investigate measurement issues relating to managing digital enterprises. It will build on the accounting studied in
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This course has been designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the role of computers and communication systems in modern organizations. Unlike programming courses, the focus here is on the application of computer-based systems to support information requirements for problem solving and managerial decision-making. Topics include concepts of information, humans as information processors, survey of hardware and software applications, introduction to information systems analysis and design. [
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The course will explore how the web has influenced culture and how websites are designed and managed. Topics will include the presentation of text, graphics, audio and video on the web. Design, web server concepts, human communication systems and organizational contexts will be considered in creating web sites using scripting languages and web software tools. [
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This course presents the principles of communicating effective audience-specific health information in both print and electronic media. Students will learn to analyze the form, content, language, and imagery of written health communication; to locate the published research behind health reports in the popular media; and to communicate clear, accurate health information to medical professionals, general audiences, and readers with low literacy skills. [
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Analytical methods and theoretical concepts from communication and rhetoric will be applied to the analysis of contemporary media (art, film, television, journalism, advertising, and web documents). [
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This course presents the principles of information design, including the clear, concise and truthful presentation of data in the form of tables, graphs, maps, academic posters, presentations, and user interfaces. Topics will include the accurate representation of numerical and statistical data, information heirarchy, and appropriate use of design elements for clarity and legibility. Practical application of course material will require students to develop and integrate information graphics into a presentation format for peer review and critique. [
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This course covers analysis and development of visual media for medical or scientific topics. Lectures include: light/form; proportion/scale; scientific visual conventions; media appropriate for target audience and reproduction. Topics may include: physiology, anatomical/biological subjects, patient education or health promotion. Classes consist of lectures wtih computer lab explorations. [
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How has the legacy of colonialism across the globe impacted how we see images, how we think about them and how we make them? And how do images perpetuate or overturn the legacy of colonial power relations? This course introduces students to the key concepts and debates in post-colonial studies as they relate to issues of visual culture. [
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Examines the ways in which social-cultural identities are constructed by, and at times disrupt various visual technologies, logics, and representational strategies. Issues and problems to be addressed include: nationality, stereotyping, invisibility, and surveillance. Course materials will be drawn from modern and contemporary art and visual culture, and will also include readings from the fields of feminism, race studies, queer theory, and performance studies. [
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The principles and techniques of user-centered, functional design are introduced and applied to the analysis of software interfaces and the creation of multimedia documents. The roles of shared metaphors and mental models in clear, concise and usable designs are emphasized. Students will produce multimedia documents, which make effective use of text, colour, user input, audio, still, and time-based images. [
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Conversation appears to be a species-distinctive and universal form of social interaction among human beings. Moreover, with slight tweakings or adjustments, conversational interaction is a basic form of social organization through which the work of most, if not all, the major institutions of societies -- the economy, the polity, the family, the law, socialization, etc. -- gets done. [
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This course will examine political and social activism in visual and media culture focusing on the role that visual representation has played in social movements and how artists/activists have employed visual media to achieve specific ends that challenge and resist dominant visual representations and political formations.[
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