Welcome to Communication Studies

Founded in 1965 as Communication Arts, The Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University was the first department to study the art of communication in Canada.

The Department offers undergraduate and graduate programs exploring a wide range of interests in media analysis, critique and creation. Central to its programs of study is the integration of knowledge based in the humanities and liberal arts, the social sciences, and media practice.

Our Faculty have established international reputations as researchers and creators. Our students are selected from amongst the very best of the applicants to our programs. And, our Alumni are amongst the leaders in their respective fields of employment.

  • Communication Studies Researchers return from successful visit at the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (February 22-28, 2010)

    Communication Studies Researchers return from successful visit at the Multimedia University, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (February 22-28, 2010)

    Members of the Mobile Media Lab, Director Kim Sawchuk, Owen Chapman, Leslie Shade and Rae Staseson, were guest researchers at the Multimedia University, Faculty of Creative Multimedia, in Cyberjaya, Malaysia. Dr. Kim Sawchuk had previously been a guest scholar in November 2009 and helped to develop, along with Dean Harold Thwaites of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia, a memorandum of cooperation for research exchanges between MMU and Concordia. In February Sawchuk, Chapman, Shade and ... « more »

  • Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies Wins Major Award

    Concordia University Research Chair in Communication Studies Wins Major Award

    Charles Acland (CURC, Communication Studies) has won the 2010 Kovács Award for best essay in film and media studies. This prize is awarded annually by the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. The award recognizes the most original essay - published in a peer-reviewed journal during the previous year - that significantly advances scholarship in film and media studies. Acland’s winning article “Curtain, Carts, and the Mobile Screen” appears in the fiftieth anniversary issue of ... « more »

  • A Different Kind of Lens

    A Different Kind of Lens

    Communication Studies uses President’s Conference theme to present an innovative view of surveillance

    At the second edition of the President’s Conference on Nov. 4, the focus will be Surveillance, Security and the End of Privacy — the outward eyes watching us each day. The research-creators from Concordia’s Mobile Media Lab (MML) in the Department of Communication Studies have discovered a few ways to turn the eye inward.

    The MML developed three unique ways to creatively demonstrate

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  • Guest Speaker Series: A Talk with Kevin Tierney

    Guest Speaker Series: A Talk with Kevin Tierney

    Kevin Tierney, Communication Studies alumnus and producer and co-writer of the 2006 hit movie Bon Cop Bad Cop, returned to his alma mater September 29 to speak to about 85 students, staff and faculty members and announce a gift in honour of his parents. The talk called A Conversation with Kevin Tierney was the latest in the Department of Communication Studies' Distinguished Alumni Series that was held at the Communication Studies and Journalism Building on the Loyola Campus. Tierney ... « more »