Communication Student for a Day

This semester, we are offering prospective students the opportunity to experience a real undergraduate lecture offered by some of our esteemed instructors here at SFU’s School of Communication in our Burnaby campus!

Students will have the chance to sit in on the first hour of a lecture, followed by a mini tour of the campus guided by a student ambassador. Have lunch on us, and learn more about the School of Communication, campus, and professors, as well as all the amazing resources that make Simon Fraser University great!

Join us for this unique initiative to experience being a Communication student for a day! 

If you have any questions about the Spend a Day program before completing the form below, please contact Moira at cmnseo@sfu.ca.

Sit in on one of the following lectures: 

CMNS 120W: Creativity and Communication Across Media

This class introduces students to the creative practice of multimodal writing and content creation for communication and media studies. Topics may include: creativity and idea generation; media literacy in digital environments; writing conventions for various platforms and genres; analytical writing and scholarly argumentation; audio-visual production for popular audiences.

Dates: 

• March 17 at 2:30 pm 
• March 24 at 2:30 pm  

CMNS 202: Design and Method in Qualitative Communication Research

An introduction to interpretive approaches in communication inquiry. Topics include ethics, paradigms, conceptualizing the research process, documentary research, historical methods, discourse or textual analysis, ethnographic research, and performative research. 

Dates: 

• Feb. 14, 2025 at 12:30 pm: interviewing methods, mis- and disinformation in Asian diasporic communities
• March 14, 2025 at 12:30 pm: participatory action research, reparative media systems

CMNS 221: Media and Pop Cultures

This course is an introduction to and survey of the study of popular culture and communication, with a specific focus on the social and cultural dimensions of media and media environments. The course examines media-audience relations in regard to critical issues and controversies in media, society and popular culture, by use of academic literatures, various films, examples of popular music, and other forms of audio/visual culture.

Dates:

• March 25 at 2:30 pm

Space is limited for each lecture, please fill out the form below to secure your spot!