The Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Communication Studies offered by the Department of Art History & Communications in the Faculty of Arts is a research-intensive program that emphasizes advanced and stimulating learning opportunities. The program's objective is to equip students with skills in resourceful thinking, literature synthesis, and scientific communication to pursue professional opportunities in academia or industry.
The program may also be taken with the Gender and Women's Studies option where students focus their coursework and research on gender and women's studies, and issues in feminist, Queer, or Trans research and methods. The student's doctoral dissertation must be on a topic centrally relating to issues of gender and/or women's studies.
Keywords: media & technology studies, sound studies, Black studies, critical race theory, Feminist and gender studies, postcolonialism, AI, social media, infrastructure and environmental studies.
Each program has specific admission requirements including required application documents.