Call for Applications: MA in Communication Studies, WLU *Call for applications* *M.A. in Communication Studies* *Wilfrid Laurier University | Waterloo* Deadline: Jan. 15, 2017 (for first consideration) The Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University welcomes applications to its M.A. program. The programoffers a co-op option as well as critical engagement with core perspectives in communication studies and contemporary research methodologies and practices. Our interdisciplinary faculty members are established and emerging researchers in their areas of specialization, conducting research on topics such as mobile and social media, visual communication, media history, Internet studies, transnationalism, cultural policy, alternative media, and creative industries. Students in the one-year, full-time program typically take three courses in the Fall and Winter terms and complete a Major Research Paper in the Spring/Summer. Students registered in the co-op program generally complete the co-op placement in the Spring/Summer term and the Major Research Paper the following Fall. All applicants are considered for an entrance scholarship, and M.A. students are regularly employed as Teaching Assistants in undergraduate Communication Studies courses. Students also have the opportunity to work as Research Assistants to funded faculty members. Students who hold a major external award (e.g., SSHRC Canada Graduate Scholarship) are eligible for additional scholarship funding. Based in a growing department, the M.A. Program in Communication Studies is offered at Laurier’s campus in Waterloo, Ontario, a university-oriented region with a thriving media technology sector. Graduates have pursued doctoral studies and launched professional communication careers in a variety of private, public sector, and non-profit organizations. Further information Program website <http://www.wlu.ca/programs/arts/graduate/communication-studies-ma/index.html> Contact Alexandra Boutros Graduate Program Coordinator aboutros@wlu.ca Follow us on Twitter @LaurierCommGrad <https://twitter.com/LaurierCommGrad> Courses for 2017-18 Critical Theory Video Game Studies Risk, Media and Science Representations of the Real Communication Studies Research Methods Graduate Seminar in Communication Studies *Graduate Faculty* Alexandra Boutros (Ph.D., McGill University) critical race theory, digital technology, transnationalism and diaspora, religion and media Greig de Peuter (Ph.D., Simon Fraser University) political economy, labour, creative industries, video games Jonathan Finn (Ph.D., University of Rochester) visual communication and culture, visual evidence, sport studies Jenna Hennebry (Ph.D., University of Western Ontario) international migration, mobility, globalization, transnationalism, human rights Andrew Herman (Ph.D., Boston College) materialist mobile media/internet studies/methodologies Paul Heyer (Ph.D., Rutgers University) media history (film, radio, television), nonverbal communication Jeremy Hunsinger (Ph.D., Virginia Tech) internet studies, virtual worlds, digital games, technology studies, interpretive methods Penelope Ironstone (Ph.D., York University) risk/health communication, gender/queer media, cultural theory Barbara Jenkins (Ph.D., Yale University) political economy, visual culture, cultural policy, museums Anne-Marie Kinahan (Ph.D., Carleton University) visual communication, print culture, communication history, feminism Sara Matthews (Ph.D., York University) war, memory, contemporary art, psychoanalysis, social conflict museums, public pedagogy Jade Miller (Ph.D., University of Southern California) global media, media industries, urban studies, political economy Martin Morris (Ph.D., York University) communications thought, social and political theory, popular culture Judith Nicholson (Ph.D., Concordia University) mobilities, race and media, human-animal studies Herbert Pimlott (Ph.D., Goldsmiths College, University of London) alternative media, cultural politics, public communication Nathan Rambukkana (Ph.D., Concordia University) discourse analysis, digital intimacies, critical race theory, the public sphere, hybridity Ian Roderick (Ph.D., Monash University) visual communication, technology, semiotics, sociolinguistics Peter Urquhart (Ph.D., McGill University) television, film, media history, visual communication​