Writing and New Media

The Writing and New Media focus area is for students interested in all aspects of writing, both professional and creative. It explores the ways in which the new media of publication and communication (the Internet, the World Wide Web) provide new forms and genres of writing and communication.

This stream will interest students wishing to explore the many ways in which digital multimedia communications change modes of communication, interaction, and publication and, with them, social, political, and economic patterns of experience and behaviour on a global scale.

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Foundational courses

Group study

• MAIS 623: Introduction to Trends in New Media: Digital Humanities

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Writing and New Media electives

Group study

• MAIS 606: Academic Writing for Graduate Students
• MAIS 616: Writing the Self: The Experience and Potential of Writing for Personal Development
• MAIS 617: Creative Non-Fiction
• MAIS 620: Digital Storytelling

Individualized study

• LTST 551: World Literature
• LTST 637: Black Atlantic Literature and Culture
• LTST 693: Creative Writing
• MAIS 621: Narrative Possibilities: The Transformative Power of Writing, Story, and Poetry in Personal and Professional Development
• MAIS 638: What I Tell You May Not Be True: Autobiography, Discourse Analysis, and Post-Colonialism
• MAIS 640: Grounded Theory, Exploration, and Beyond
• WGST 547: Rethinking Science and Technology: Gender, Theory, and Practice
• WRNM 605: Creating Life Histories