Art History
and Communication at McGill
The
Department of Art History and Communication Studies
embraces the interdisciplinary study of art, culture and
communications, and the technologies of information, image, and
sound from all periods of time and through a broad range of
historical and theoretical approaches.
The Department offers M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in
Communication Studies, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Art History,
undergraduate degrees in Art History, and has recently introduced
an undergraduate minor in Communication Studies.
As
well as respecting the specific traditions of each discipline, the
Department further encourages those fields of research currently
emerging at the intersection of Art History and Communication.
These include the analysis of visual culture, studies of new media,
the history of image technology, the social semiotics of the image,
social contextualization, analyses of identity in art and
communications, and questions of culture, nationhood, patronage and
collection.
The Communication Studies stream of study is concerned with the
social and cultural dimensions of communications
media, processes and technologies. Areas of expertise
include the analysis of cultural artifacts, the historical
relationships between communications media and knowledge, cultural
policy and the relations between communications and
gender.
Communication
Studies
Communication
Studies provides undergraduate students with a critical
understanding of the role that communication media and
communication technologies plays in society. Specifically, it
presents students with intellectually challenging and
innovative instructions in key traditions of
Communication and Media Studies and new theoretical and methodical
practices being developed in the social life of communication
technologies, the historical development and transformation of
media and communication forms, institutions, practices and the mass
media representation and mobilization of social
difference.
Undergraduate
Courses
Courses
offered include: History of Communication, Introduction to
Communication Studies, Media and Modernity in 20th Century, Media
and Empire, History and Theory of Media Topic: New Media in
Context, and Power, Difference and Justice - Topic: Legal
Cultures
Media
Resource Center
The Media
Resource Center (MRC) is a unit mandated to acquire and
provide access to images of art, architecture and
other information to professors and students in the Faculty of Arts
for teaching, research and study purposes. It currently maintains a
growing collection of over 180,000 slides, 10,000 digital images,
and dozens of art-related videos and dvds. These collections are
variously classified and cataloged and they form the basis for
teaching in the department and are also used by students and
professors in other departments in the Faculty of Arts. The
MRC further provides equipment, technical
and other services and support for delivering lectures and
presentations using various media in the Department's lecture hall
and seminar rooms.
Media@McGill
Media@McGill is a
hub of research, scholarship and public outreach on issues and
controversies in media, technology and culture. The members of
Media@McGill are the eight communication studies faculty within the
Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill
University in Montreal.
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