We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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COMM 4140U – Ways of Seeing: Visual Communication Arts and New Media

From photographic images to crypto art, streaming movies to art galleries, meme banks to the metaverse, ways of seeing and experiencing our culture and society are mediated by all kinds of technologies. This course is a primer on visual communication and cultural studies. It probes continuity and changes in ways of seeing the world via photography, cinema and TV, simulation games, interactive websites, virtual reality (VR) headsets and augmented reality (AR) apps. In this course, students learn about relevant theories, topics and research in the field of visual communication and cultural studies, hone their visual literacies, and communicate about the transformation of visual media-cultures in the digital age.