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The Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT) is a communications and new media institute of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), a campus of the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The extra-departmental unit hosts interdisciplinary undergraduate programs and is based in the Communication, Culture and Technology Building.

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Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex

The Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex is an academic building of the University of Toronto on its Mississauga campus in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. The building is home to the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, one of the four academies in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's MD program. It was built in 2011 as part of an effort to expand Ontario health care education, and is the only medical school location in Mississauga. The Faculty of Medicine is affiliated with Trillium Health Partners' teaching hospitals in Mississauga for students in the Mississauga Academy of Medicine. Apart from MAM, the Health Sciences Complex houses the UTM Biomedical Communications program and the Department of Anthropology. It was designed by Kongats Architects Toronto, with funding provided by Carlo Fidani, Terrence Donnelly, and the Provincial Government. Carlo Fidani donated $10 million for building costs, scholarships, and a chair in family and community medicine. Terrence Donnelly donated $12 million to building costs and scholarships. Capital funding for the project of $30.3 million was provided by the Provincial Government. The construction for the 5,960 square meter, four-storey building began the summer of 2009. The building officially opened on November 1, 2011. The building was designed like a "stacked box," built on a slope between the Communication, Culture and Technology and William G. Davis buildings, with an elevated walkway built connecting to the latter. Inside the building are modern classrooms, seminar rooms, computer facilities, learning spaces and laboratories, a student lounge, and outdoor terrace.

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University of Toronto Mississauga Library

The University of Toronto Mississauga Library, part of the University of Toronto Libraries system, is the campus library of the University of Toronto Mississauga in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Originally located in the North Building then moved to the William G. Davis Building, the library is now housed in the Hazel McCallion Academic Learning Centre, built in 2006. It is the only library on campus and contains a collection of over 400,000 volumes in a broad range of subjects.

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The Blackwood

The Blackwood is a contemporary art centre at the University of Toronto, located on its campus in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1969, it is the oldest public gallery in the Peel Region. The Backwood maintains two public art galleries: its flagship space, the Blackwood Gallery, is located in the Kaneff Centre/Innovation Complex and the e|gallery in the Communication, Culture and Technology Building. It also operates several lightbox exhibits and art displays around the campus. It is named in honour of David Blackwood, the artist-in-residence on the Mississauga campus from the late 1960s to early 70s. Annual exhibitions organized by The Blackwood showcase work by students in the art and art history joint program of the University of Toronto Mississauga's department of visual studies and Sheridan College.

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University of Toronto Mississauga

The University of Toronto Mississauga is one of the three campuses of the University of Toronto and its second-largest academic division, located in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1967 as Erindale College, the suburban campus is set upon 225 acres of protected forest along the valley of the Credit River, approximately 33 kilometres west of the St. George campus in downtown Toronto. Originally a constituent college in the Faculty of Arts and Science, UTM became a full academic division of the University of Toronto in 2003. The campus has since grown to become the university's second-largest division overall and its second-largest campus in terms of both student enrolment and land area, the other two of which are its St. George and Scarborough campuses. UTM hosts more than 180 programs at both the undergraduate and graduate level, offered through 15 academic departments, three institutions, and several other University of Toronto faculties, including the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and Lawrence Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing. The campus mainly provides undergraduate education in arts and science, similar to the Faculty of Arts and Science on the St. George campus, as part of the university's tri-campus structure. UTM also offers graduate programs, notably in the Mississauga Academy of Medicine, one of the four academies in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's MD program, and the Institute for Management and Innovation.

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Institute for Management and Innovation

The Institute for Management and Innovation is an institute at the University of Toronto that serves as the home of professional graduate programs on its Mississauga campus. Established in 2013, it is an extra-departmental unit of the University of Toronto Mississauga and housed in the Innovation Complex. IMI hosts unique multidisciplinary master's programs through the School of Graduate Studies. Degrees offered include a Master of Biotechnology, Master of Forensic Accounting, Master of Management of Innovation, Master of Management and Professional Accounting, Master of Science in Sustainability Management, and Master of Urban Innovation. The institute also hosts the Master of Science in Biomedical Communications degree, unique in Canada, in partnership with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine's Institute of Medical Science. The two-year program based in the Terrence Donnelly Health Sciences Complex is one of only four of its kind in the world.

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ICCIT's flagship program, the communication, culture, information and technology (CCIT) major, was first developed in 2000 and the institute has grown to encompass four unique programs: CCIT; digital enterprise management; professional writing and communication; and technology, coding, and society.

History

The Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (CCIT) program was created in 2000 in response to the growing prevalence of technology in most sectors of business and academia. It was one of the University of Toronto Mississauga's joint arts programs with Sheridan College. The institute created a professional experience Certificate in Digital Media, Communication and Technology under former director Rhonda McEwen. The joint program with Sheridan College formally ceased in 2024, with the CCIT program offered solely on the University of Toronto Mississauga campus.

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Research conducted by faculty in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology include the social impact of technologies such as virtual reality (VR), cell phones and social media for youth, online content moderation, and artificial intelligence (AI). The McEwan Mediated Communication Lab is a research lab affiliated with ICCIT for communication technology and human interaction in virtual reality led by Bree McEwan.

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Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (CCIT) Digital Enterprise Management Professional Writing and Communication Technology, Coding, and Society