Master of Arts in Global Communications: Curriculum

 

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Master of Arts in Global Communications

 
 
 

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Please note: (M) = "Mandatory".  In addition, students must take three of the following: CM5002 | CM/PO5003 | CM5004 | CM5005 | CM/PO5025 | CM/PO5026.

The three remaining courses may be taken as electives.
 

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CM5001

Global Communications: Concepts, Critical Approaches and Research Methods

CM5002

Brands and Belief

CM_PO5003

Cultural Diversity and Globalization: Goods and Actors

CM5004

Global Digital Cultures

CM5005

Identity Formation in a Transnational World: Circulation of Technologies of the Self

CM_PO5025

Communication and The Global Public Sphere

CM_PO5026

Politics and Economics of Global Media

 

 

 

CM5006

Global Audiences in Media and Communications

CM5007

Color as Communication in Marketing and Art

CM5008

Media Diaspora

CM5009

Globalization, Memory and Visual Culture

CM5010

Media, Religion and Globalization: Technologies of The Sacred

CM5015

Online Social Networks

CM5020

Intensive Modules*

CM5028

Video Production Practicum

CM5033

Media, Stuff and Values: Material Culture and Value Creation

CM5037

The Museum as Medium

CM_LW5046

Free Expression and the Media: Policy and Law

CM_GV5050

Global Advocacy and Public Policy: the Cultural Turn

CM5060

Visual Culture, Theory and Communications

CM5062

Media Convergence Practicum

CM5063

Sustainable Development Practicum

CM5064

Video News Practicum: Writing, Reporting and Producing for Broadcast and Webcast

CM5065

Broadcast News Practicum

CM5066

Branding Practicum

CM5067

Advertising Practicum

CM5068

NGO Practicum

CM5069

International Public Relations Practicum

CM5070

Media, Gender & Globalization

CM5073

Media and Society in the Middle East and North Africa

CM5076

Food, Culture & Communication

CM5077

Communication and the Global City

CM_PO5079

Media, Governance and Diversity

CM_PO5081

Collaborative Methods in Conflict Resolution

CM5091A

Fashion Theory: The Body and Culture of Fashion

CM5091B

Fashion Journalism, PR, and the Digital Turn

CM5091C

Communications Digital Toolkit

 

 

 
 

(*) Intensive Modules offered as part of the Fashion Track within MAGC.  Two modules in one semester may be chosen instead of a MAGC elective course.

 
 

 

 
 
 

 
 

To complete the degree requirements for the MAGC, students will choose one of two options:

 

1) Thesis:  Students complete a 50-60 page MA thesis preparing the way to future doctoral study (in the US or in Europe). 

 

Or

 

2) Internship:  Students undertake an internship with a corporation, international organization, government body or NGO. 

 

Both projects require a 50-60 page paper and represents 3 months' work. The paper will be worth 8 credits. Students can do this during the semester following completion of course requirements. Where possible, a defense of thesis or project will be oral and public, before an interschool jury.
 
 
 
 
 

At this moment in time, questions of globalization, media, branding, and cross-cultural communication are strong academic currency. AUP's MAGC focuses on the following thematic areas:
 

Advertising, Marketing, and Branding in global context

 

  

Digital Interactivity / Internet / Satellite / Television in global perspective

 

  

Cross-cultural understanding of the role of media in society

 

  

Cross-disciplinary understanding of the role of communications in society

 

  

Symbolic Capital: the role of persuasion and belief in media

 

  

Formation of social and cultural identity via local and global media
 

The latter four are theoretical areas of exploration that are complemented by hands-on practical work in the areas of advertising and brand management, cultural policy, social movements communication, and media area studies.
 
 

 
 
 
 

All graduate students in this program are required to maintain a 3.00 GPA. Courses in which a student has earned a grade of C- or below must be repeated to obtain credit. No more than two grades of C will be accepted for this Master's degree.
 
 
 

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