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      "markdown": "Program Code: SAC.CMSDT.CA\n\nProgram Control Number: 41539"
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      "markdown": "The Certificate in Media Theory is designed to provide students fundamental knowledge and strategies to communicate effectively in a 21st-century information environment. Students examine media’s influence on history, culture, and society and learn to apply theories in a variety of media channels.\n\n**Learning Outcome(s):**\n\n1.  Critically read, analyze, compare, and evaluate complex media texts.\n2.  Understand the cognitive processes by which media are experienced and remembered\n3.  Demonstrate an understanding of the historical and ethical underpinnings related to mass communications"
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          "title": "Introduction to Visual Communications",
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          "title": "Mass Media and Society",
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          "title": "Media, Race and Gender",
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          "title": "Academic Reading and Writing",
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