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Sample Career Options
Note: Additional training and education may be required.
- advancement officer
- buyer
- channel manager
- client support specialist
- communications writer
- community manager
- consultant
- copywriter
- cultural anthropologist
- cultural heritage conservator
- digital media assistant
- growth hacker
- human resources professional
- learning technologies consultant
- media account manager
- membership and communications manager
- mentorship coordinator
- monitoring and evaluation specialist
- museum curator
- public engagement coordinator
- reporter
- research coordinator
- social media strategist
- technical writer
- tourism coordinator
- transition coordinator
Sample Industries / Types of Employers
- arts and cultural institutions
- conference centres/hotels
- education
- financial/insurance companies
- government
- international aid agencies
- libraries/museums
- media organizations
- non-profit organizations
- recreational organizations
- research institutions
- technology companies
Laurier Grads are Successful
Laurier Graduate Survey Results (2021)
Respondents from the Laurier Graduate Survey conducted by Career Centre. Graduates were surveyed within 12 months of graduation.
214 Cultural and Communication Studies Graduates:
- Employed: 76.6%
- Pursuing Further Education: 21.5%
- Looking for Work: 1.9%
Sample Jobs within the First Year After Graduation
- administrative assistant
- advertising and marketing coordinator
- bilingual mortgage fulfillment officer
- recruiter
- social media manager
Sample Further Education Programs within the First Year After Graduation
- Master’s degree: Digital Media, Education, Peace and Conflict Studies.
- College program: Business, Corporate Communications, Public Relations.
Careers of Alumni Two-Five Years After Graduation
- artifact conservator
- community support worker
- educational assistant
- events and media coordinator
- government services coordinator
- human rights specialist
- librarian
- writer/editor
- youth worker
Career Resources
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Develop Your Knowledge and Skills
At Laurier, develop these competencies through both curricular and co-curricular opportunities to help you achieve your goals for the future.
Functional Knowledge
- Engage in interdisciplinary approaches to understand the ways in which culture is formed, practiced and constituted.
- Employ the primary disciplinary debates within cultural studies as a discipline, particularly the ways in which culture can be understood in the context of identity formations and systems of power generated around concepts of race, gender, sexuality, class, ethnicity, and forces of globalization.
- Become conversant in the central questions, theories, methodologies, methods, and concepts that guide knowledge formation in the context of cultural studies as a discipline.
- Develop a critical awareness of the institutional and social structures that circumscribe forms of cultural production and be able to critique assumptions around notions of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture.
- Understand all forms of cultural production, including popular culture, as sites of ideological production which can be ‘unpacked’ utilizing a variety of tools.
- Perform a close reading of any cultural ‘text’ (including visual culture, sound and music, forms of textual culture, etc.) in order to examine the underpinning of ideological structures.
- Comprehend the implications of different interpretive techniques, weighing their benefits and limitations.
- Discover how information is sourced, valued and used in creating new knowledge.
Collaboration & Teamwork
- Work effectively as part of a team by identifying your role and contributing, leading, teaching, motivating and/or encouraging others for team success.
- Oversee, lead and/or contribute to a project including determining goals, planning details, making decisions and completing tasks.
- Demonstrate professional behaviour and an understanding of individual perspectives and diversity.
Communication
- Construct persuasive arguments, synthesize relevant scholarly literature and explain information effectively, both orally and in written form.
- Probe for information by articulating compelling questions and listening, and engage in constructive conversations.
- Prepare interesting and informative reports and presentations for diverse audiences using current technology.
Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Identify and access a wide range of relevant information and resources.
- Learn, understand and critically interpret information and apply knowledge to new situations.
- Set priorities, meet deadlines and manage time, data and resources.
- Make well-reasoned decisions, think creatively, identify and consider all sides of an issue.
- Analyze and evaluate data to discuss, support and/or question ideas, opinions, reports, theories and proposals.