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Full	BU Brock Media and Communication Studies OUAC BUC ☆ Add to planRemove	Carleton Communication and Media Studies OUAC CCR ☆ Add to planRemove	Saint Paul Social Communication (Honours Bachelor of Arts) (4 years) OUAC OPS ☆ Add to planRemove	Ottawa Communication and Political Science (Joint Honours – 4 years) (French Immersion Stream is available) OUAC OVY ☆ Add to planRemove
Your average, their wayrequired courses forced in
Published rangetheir exact wording	73–77%“Mid 70s”	75%	70%“70% min.”	70–80%“70%; co-op 80%”
Required coursesforced into your top 6 — options are the row below	ENG4U	ENG4U	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites	No course codes parsed — see prerequisites
Choose one ofany of these satisfies it	—	—	one of ENG4U, FRA4U	one of ENG4U, FRA4U
Prerequisitesas published	ENG4U Alternative Offers You will receive an offer of admission to only 1 program. Your highest listed choice is considered first when you indicate more than 1 Brock program on your application. If you are not eligible for your first choice, your subsequent choices will be considered in your indicated order of preference. In most cases: If you apply to only 1 Brock program but do not qualify, you will be considered for an alternative or related program. If you apply but are not admitted to a co-op program you will automatically be considered for the regular, non-co-op program.	English (ENG4U) 5 best 4U/M courses Alternative Offers Find more information about alternative offers .	OSSD or equivalent Minimum of six 4U/M courses, including ENG4U or FRA4U	ENG4U or FRA4U
More than marks?supplementary application	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only	Marks only
Co-op	No	Available	No	Available
Degree	—	—	—	Bachelor of Arts, BA, Bachelor of Arts (Co-op), BA (Co-op)
First-year intakewhere published	—	200	—	—
What you study	—	Media and Communication StudiesPoliticsPublicity StudiesSocial Policy	Interdisciplinary StudiesJournalismMarketingMedia and Communication Studies	Interdisciplinary StudiesJournalismMedia and Communication StudiesPolitics
What it is	You study how people communicate through media — TV, film, social media, journalism, advertising, and public relations. The program combines theory about how media shapes society with practical skills in creating and analyzing media content. It suits people interested in understanding media's role in the world and developing hands-on abilities in broadcasting, digital production, or communications work.	You study how media works, how messages spread, and how communication shapes society and politics. This program combines theory with hands-on practice, and includes a mandatory work term where you apply classroom learning in real media or communications settings. It suits people interested in journalism, public relations, social media strategy, or understanding how news and information influence the world around them.	Social Communication is an interdisciplinary program that teaches you how to craft and spread messages across different media and audiences. You study journalism, marketing, media analysis, and publicity techniques together rather than in separate streams, so you understand how these fields overlap in real-world communication work. It suits people who want to communicate for organizations, media outlets, or campaigns and prefer a broad foundation over specializing in just one area early on.	This is a four-year degree combining the study of political systems and institutions with media, journalism, and how people communicate messages to audiences. Unlike studying either subject alone, you examine how politics and communication shape each other — analyzing political campaigns, news coverage, and public persuasion. It suits students interested in policy, political reporting, campaign work, or understanding how information flows in democratic societies.
The door tomajors you reach through it	communications	communications	Applied to directly	Applied to directly
Entrance awardsat this campus, by average	4 published, 1 with no applicationfrom 80%See them	16 published, 9 with no applicationfrom 75%See them	None published by average	22 published, 5 with no applicationfrom 75%See them
Source	Brock University on OUInfo	Carleton University on OUInfo	Saint Paul University on OUInfo	University of Ottawa on OUInfo

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