Bachelors in Journalism in Canada

The Bachelor of Arts in Business Communication (BA) is an interdisciplinary program that will develop your knowledge of media, cultural studies and business alongside theoretical and practical skills. The communication methods learnt and media training students get throughout this course are relevant to careers in professional writing, journalism, public relations, communications, and advertising.

Our professors are experienced, award-winning researchers and instructors in media and cultural studies, media history, game studies, digital humanities, audiovisual design and more. You’ll also have support from the Arts Resource Centre, which provides data management and advanced programming services for the Faculty of Arts. Open in 2019, UAlberta Libraries houses the Digital Scholarship Centre - a research and teaching facility for students, faculty, and staff at the University of Alberta.

The Media Studies degree is designed to be multidisciplinary. Create your own learning experience across areas of interest that intersect with the study of media: political science or psychology, literary or language studies, and visual art or music. Find your own pathway to a successful future.

We are one of the most established and respected Communication Studies programs in North America, and are well known for combining creative media production with the study of media theory, criticism and history. We draw from the humanities, social sciences and fine arts in a unique program that has trained many influential media makers.

You will work with a variety of media art forms and you will examine how meaning and ideas are communicated through media in various ways. In the first year you will create projects with sound, video and intermedia, as well as study theory, criticism and history of communications and media. You will be part of an exciting and dynamic team of students. You'll work together for three years, taught by an engaged and dedicated faculty of renowned scholars and artists.

This unique partnership between two universities combines expertise and opportunities for advanced study of media and cultural technologies, as well as communication politics in practice and theory. The two-year, full- or part-time MA program combines academic and professional work through independent research in theory-building, media practice or policy implications. The full-time PhD program provides a thorough grounding in theory and method, and the practices, processes and technologies of contemporary, media-immersed cultures.