Communications and Media Foundations Courses

Foundations 1: Developing College Communications Skills: Developing College Communication Skills is an eight-hour integrated course designed to assist students in upgrading their English skills in the four areas: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Upon completion of this course, students will earn a Centennial College COMM 140 equivalency credit. While focusing on developing core language competencies, students will work with course materials drawn from their program areas.

Success Skills: A number of skills will be covered in this course which enables you to be successful in the communications and media field: team building and collaboration with others, meeting deadlines, portfolio development, basic communications and media numeracy and introduction to research

Media Theory, Workplace and Issues: This course introduces you to Canada's advertising, broadcasting, film and news industries in terms of trends, ownership, structures and government policies and you examine the issues as a global citizen.

Introduction to Communications and Media: This course introduces you to the basic requirements and scope of communications and the media formats and methods.Areas covered are: audiences/demographics, diversity, markets, planning, production methods, distribution, multi-platform use with emphasis on web -based media.The issues about communications and media, as tools of equity in respectful communities, will also be examined.

Exploring Digital Culture: Part 1: Much more than a global network of interconnected computers, the Internet has bound us together in a digital web - reorganizing the ways in which we: communicate, learn, play, shop, and work. Through an examination of the historical foundations of the World Wide Web, Exploring Digital Culture course seeks to investigate how people use digital technology from both individual and demographic perspectives. Employing a wide range of web tools for research, students will investigate pertinent social and legal issues surrounding digital culture.

Foundations 2: Building College Communications Skills: Building College Communications Skills (ESL) is an eight-hour integrated course designed to assist students in upgrading their English skills in the four areas: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Upon completion of this course, students will earn a Centennial College COMM 160/161 equivalency credit. While focusing on developing core language competencies, students will work with course materials drawn from their program areas.

Introduction to Communications and Media Writing: This course will enable you, individually and as part of a team to write in basic narrative formats for a variety of diverse communications and media environments and platforms: web- based, print, broadcast, film and interactive media. You'll also create and maintain a blog using a social media network and you'll use word processing software and other application software to produce and present your work.

Tools and Processes for Communicators: You will be introduced to the School of Communications, Media and Design environment and will learn to use the many rich media tools available to them in a systematic way. You will use practical research, rich media, presentation techniques and learn how to communicate effectively as a media professional using social media networks.

Exploring Digital Culture: Part 2: A continuation of Exploration Digital Culture Part 1, this course will further examine issues surrounding digital living. From modern tech-based employment, to economic and cultural issues surrounding the Internet, students will consider their place as citizens of a global village. Interacting in the digital world using web 2.0 applications, class participants will examine what it means to be modern citizens in an ever-shrinking digital world.