Click. Play. Retweet.

Make a podcast. Fill your feed. Share your story. Upload to YouTube. Collect and return follows.

Learn and improve all your digital communication skills.

Take it a step further: Learn and improve how you think about digital communication. How you move in it. Why a crazy idea goes viral and sound data slips to page two. Think about who benefits. Understand the legal, economic and historic forces shaping communication.

Every click you take creates data. Google, Facebook, merchants and other companies profit from that data. How does that economic interest change your digital experience for the better? For the worse? Who decides? Who owns this data? Who should?

Fake news and deceptive propaganda look and feel like honest reporting and opinion. Influencers and celebrities amplify unexpected points of view. How does our attention on these sources change the digital landscape? What’s the relationship between information and trust?

Anyone can make media. With a Western education, you can make media better. Fairer. Brighter.

Media, Information & Technoculture (MIT)

• Honours Specialization
• Major
• Minor
• Ivey HBA/MIT Combined Degree

Media & the Public Interest (MPI)

• Honours Specialization
• Major

Creative Arts and Production (CAP)

• Major

What's a module?

Apply to Media and Communication Studies:

• First-year class size = 250
• OUAC Code = EI
• Required Courses:
  • English, ENG4U
• Mid-Year Average Guideline: Low 80s
  • Averages reflect Ontario high school students
  • Remember, these are guidelines only
  • Admission to Western is competitive – achieving an average in the suggested range does not guarantee admission

View all admission requirements for your curriculum

After your first year in FIMS, you choose MIT, MPI or CAP as your program. Admission to your FIMS program and module depends on your success in that first year.

Experiential Learning

Take advantage of international exchanges, internships, co-op placements, volunteer positions and job shadowing.

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Sample Courses

• 1020: Introduction to Media, Information and Technoculture
• 2025: Research Methods for the Digital Age
• 2157: Planet Google: Big Data and Information Society
• 3207: Children, Advertising & Consumer Culture
• 3225: Propaganda in Print and Visual Culture
• 3376: Cyber-Life: Communication in the Digital Age
• 4035: Special Topics: Theories of Spectacular Culture