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Americans at Concordia. District 3 profiled. Video games as literature.

Concordia in the news
Posted on October 31, 2017

Concordia in the news features stories of Concordians who appear in the news. Discover alumni, students, faculty and experts who recently made an impact in the media.

University affairs

Various issues concerning Concordia University are often reported on by news outlets. Here is the most recent coverage pertaining to the institution: 

  • Narcity picks up news of a sharp increase in American student enrolment in universities in Montreal, notably at Concordia, where a 103% year-over-year increase in American enrolment in the university's masters and PhD programs has been reported as resulting from a "Trump effect".
  • Gestion HEC MontrĂ©al features Concordia's District 3 Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in a piece about business incubators in Montreal.
  • Now Toronto writes about university courses that treat video games as literature and notes the development of a video game critique course (ENGL 398D Videogame and/as Literature), developed at Concordia in 2010 by then-PhD candidate Cindy Poremba.