Courses

WRDS Undergraduate Teaching Assistant

The School of Journalism, Writing, and Media seeks to fill an Undergraduate Teaching Assistant l position for Term 2 of the 2025 Winter Session. The successful applicant will need to be located in Vancouver and available on campus.  The UTA  will perform duties as required and to assist the course instructor during Term 2 of […]

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JRNL 425 Journalism and Social Change Movements

Critique the role journalism and news coverage have played in major social movements in Canada and internationally. Learn how journalism has catalyzed, promoted, misrepresented, or undermined social change through news reporting.

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JRNL 420 Decoding Social Media

Identify and understand impacts and implications of social media on journalism and society. Apply social media tools and practices in storytelling and engagement with users.

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JRNL 325 Fundamentals of Community Reporting

Situates journalism practice in the context of social change and explores the unfair power dynamics inherent in deep reporting and storytelling.

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JRNL 320 Multimedia Journalism

Principles of multimedia storytelling with hands-on journalistic methods in information gathering, fact-checking, and ethical decision making.

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JRNL 201 Introduction to News Audiences

Introduction to the evolution of news audiences and their relationships with journalists. Examines different approaches to audience engagement and various forms of such engagement.

WRDS 450  Writing Practices for Publics & Publications

WRDS 450
Writing Practices for Publics & Publications

Writing processes and strategies conducive to developing larger, long-term research projects into genres of writing intended to publicly engage with scholars, activists, and intellectuals.

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WRDS 400
Writing and Communication Capstone

Critical assessment of approaches to writing and communication. Key principles of the field applied to public and professional domains relevant to students’ future work, studies, service, or work.

WRDS 390 Writing Disability

WRDS 390 Writing Disability

Explores disability theories, to understand their connections to writing and discourse studies.

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WRDS 370 Research Writing and Marginalization

Examines how marginalized groups are positioned in research writing. Focuses on the role of power, knowledge, and ethics in shaping language features and textual structures of research writing.