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Master of Arts in Global Communications

 

 
 
 

The Master of Arts in Global Communications (MAGC) focuses on:

 
 

The massive technological revolution provided by the internet, digitalization.

 

 

The economic transformations caused by brand globalization.

 

 

The inter-cultural problems associated with these tendencies.

 

 

The development of appropriate responses by governments, corporations, and NGOs.

 

 

The development of communications industries—global advertising and image management.

 

 

 

As future employers peruse the résumés that cross their desks, looking for versatility, internet creativity, linguistic competencies, the capacity to work in teams, the ability to transfer skills to pressing situations, as well as the special perspective that only an international education provides, they seek candidates with a full arsenal of theoretical and practical skills. The specific focus of this Master of Arts—global media and global communications—prepares its graduates to be leaders in a world of cross-border dialogues of all sorts.

 

The MAGC degree is comprised of 36 credits: 10 three-credit classes and a six-credit thesis or internship. The coursework for MAGC can be completed in three semesters, including summer (courses offered in June and July). While the degree can be completed in one calendar year, the time taken to complete the internship and thesis components may vary. Many MAGC students choose to take additional time for their internship/thesis.

 

This program complements AUP's global perspective, international image, reach, and student and faculty population. AUP's institutional mission focuses on interdisciplinary study, ethical reflection, and, increasingly, a commitment to discipline-based interdisciplinary and internationalism at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The program includes both "professional" and "research" tracks, as well as a range of modalities suited to global students seeking an international education in a European capital.

 

The Master of Arts degree in Global Communications is accredited in the United States by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools and reflects the new European norms articulated in the EUA Bologna Convention.

 
 
 
 
 

The MA in Global Communications is built upon the strengths of AUP's enormously successful Global Communications undergraduate program—characterized by dynamic interdisciplinary, hands-on workshops, theoretical richness, cross-cultural pedagogies—and provides similar flexibility and range to students seeking to establish careers in a wide variety of international communications fields.

 

The program provides students with theoretical core courses in global communications, global cultures, global media, rhetoric, and globalization, as well as in new methodologies for emerging fields, branding, advertising, and cultural policy.

 

In addition to these core courses, students choose from a series of professionally oriented, hands-on practical courses leading to an extended project, specialization through further course work, an internship, or a substantial master’s thesis leading to doctoral study.

 
 

 

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