Curriculum & Courses

Curriculum & Courses

 

For full course descriptions, use the online Academic Calendar.

Below is the list of courses required to complete the Bachelor of Communication - Information Design major.


Curriculum

  • COMM 2500 - Introduction to Communication Studies
  • COMM 2501 - Media History and Contemporary Issues
  • COMM 3500 - Media, Culture and Communication Theory
  • COMM 4501 - Roles and Practices in Contemporary Communications


Core Courses

  • INFO 1610 - Principles of Design Thinking and Doing
  • INFO 1620 - Visual Communication Fundamentals
  • INFO 1661 - Technical Communication
  • INFO 2663 - Visual and Applied Rhetoric
  • INFO 2666 - Thinking with Type
  • INFO 2667 - Information Architecture
  • INFO 2670 - Tools for Information Designers
  • INFO 2673 - Systems and Structures
  • INFO 2680 - Intercultural Communication in Information Design
  • INFO 3600 - Usability
  • INFO 3605 - Qualitative Research Methods for Information Design
  • INFO 3610 - Visualizing Information
  • INFO 3611 - Designing for Interactivity
  • INFO 3620 - Content Development and Design Studio
  • INFO 3670 - Project and Content Management
  • INFO 4620 - Systems Thinking and Changemaking Studio
  • INFO 4665 - Instructional Design
  • INFO 4679 - Issues in Communications: Ethics and Law
  • INFO 4680 - The Practice of Information Design


Zero-credit program elements

  • INFO 4690 - Information Design Workplace Seminar *non credit
  • INFO 4691 - Information Design Work Experience *non credit
  • INFO 4692 - Information Design Work Experience II *non credit - optional

* All courses three credits except zero-credit courses INFO 4690, INFO 4691 and INFO 4692.


Electives

  • Six Electives


General Education Requirements

Ten courses must be completed to meet the General Education requirements to graduate with a Bachelor of Communication - Information Design.

  1. Four courses will be taken at the foundational level: one from each of the thematic clusters.
  2. Three courses will be taken at the second tier: no more than one from each of the thematic clusters. One of these courses must be from the Numeracy and Scientific Literacy cluster.
  3. Three courses must be taken at the third tier, selected from at least two of the thematic clusters.