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The Master of Arts in Global Communications (MAGC) is one of the few MA programs in
the world to undertake the systematic study of
global communication systems. The massive
technological revolution provided by the
internet, digitalization, and the economic
transformations caused by brand globalization,
combined with the intercultural tensions
associated with these tendencies, are the
focus of the program.
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For more information about the
programs offered in the Department of Global Communications, you
may contact the Department Chair: |
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Contact
Charles Talcott |
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ctalcott@aup.edu |
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+33 1 40.62.06.00 ext. 575 |
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Combes, AUP: 6, Rue du Colonel Combes,
75007, Paris (Métro: La Tour-Maubourg,
Ecole Militaire, Alma-Marceau, Invalides) |
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The Major in Global
Communications trains students in a liberal arts
tradition to think critically and creatively
about the contemporary communications
environment which they experience as global
citizens and possibly, soon, as practitioners of
professional communication. It provides students
with substantive knowledge based on current
research, with practical skills and analytical
ability to understand (and play an active role
in) the complex dynamics of communication at
global, local, and individual levels. Graduates
of this major understand the huge and rapid
trends and rifts appearing in societies as media
converge, new cultural forms, practices and
spaces emerge, and belief structures shift.
Student Learning Outcomes
Global Communications
majors will:
gain insight into the history and construction
of communication as a field;
develop in-depth knowledge of theoretical
foundations and recent developments in
particular tracks or emphases of study;
learn a solid liberal arts background necessary
for success in graduate study in communication
studies;
learn practical skills applicable for students'
careers in communication fields;
master communication research methods, including
historical, textual, socio-cultural, and
empirical approaches and procedures for writing
and presenting research;
sharpen international media literacy skills;
learn communication's role
in global identity formation and the influence
of this process transculturally.
Interdisciplinary Initiatives
Communication studies is a field that overlaps with politics,
sociology, anthropology, and literature, to name a few. Thus,
interdisciplinary initiatives are practically built into the
definition of the field. In addition, the Global Communications
Department has devised a new Political Communication minor to
serve students interested in politics or communications who want
more in-depth treatment of this important topical overlap.
Several courses are cross-listed with International and
Comparative Politics. The department also houses the
anthropology courses of the university. Some Global
Communications courses are cross-listed with film. A media and
gender course is crosslisted with Gender Studies. Finally
several business courses are part of our degree requirements.
Centers and Partnerships
The Global Communications department has summer exchange
agreements with NYU's Department of Communication and Culture,
featuring a summer institute in Global Communications.
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Major in
GLOBAL COMMUNICATIONS |
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FirstBridge
8 FirstBridge courses change every year.
GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Up to 8 EN 1010 College Writing, EN 2020 Writing and Criticism
8 French through FR 1200 Elementary French Language and Culture II
4 Historical and Cross-Cultural Understandings
4 Social Experience and Organization
4 from either of the above two categories
Up to 8 Scientific and Mathematical Investigations
CORE
Required (26 credits)
CM 1023 Introduction to Media and Communication Studies
CM 2004 Comparative Historical Communication
CM 2006 Media Globalization
CM 2051 Communication Theory and Research Methods
CM 3052 Rhetoric and Persuasion
CS/CM 1005 Introduction to Web Authoring
CM 3098 Internship or CM 4090 Senior Seminar (Honors students must do Senior
Seminar)
MEDIA and CULTURE ELECTIVES
Students must select four courses from the following, at least two of
which must be 3000 level or above (16 credits)
AN 1001 Social Anthropology or
AN 1002 Cultural Anthropology
CM 2005 Communication and Society
CM 2021 The Internet and Globalization
CM/GS 3004 Communicating Fashion
CM 3006 Color as Communication
CM 3011 Comparative Political Communication
CM/SO 3031 Media Sociology
CM 3033 Scripts for Travel
CM/ES 3037 The Museum as Medium
CM 3046 Media Law, Policy and Ethics
CM/AN 3049 Media and Ethnography
CM/GS 3053 Media and Gender
CM 3055 Visual Rhetoric: Persuasive Images
CM 3062 Media Semiotics
CM/ES 3070 Cultural Dimensions of the European Idea
CM 3075 Media Aesthetics
CM 3086 Contemporary World Television
CM 4000 Topics in Communication
CM 4017 Media and War
CM 4026 Cultures of Music Production
CM 4030 Media in Asia
CM 4073 Media and Society in the Arab World
SPECIALIZATIONS
Select three* courses from any or all of the areas
Students can choose to have a specialization. If they
wish to have a specialization, they must do three courses in one of the
areas listed below, at least two of which must be at 3000-level or above. If
they choose not to have a specialization, they must choose three courses
from any of the areas below or from MEDIA and CULTURE (if not taken as an
elective), at least two of which must be at 3000-level or above. (12 credits)
Production
AR 1060 Introduction to Photography and Documentary Expression
CM/FM 1019 Principles of Video Production
CM 2001 Public Speaking in the Digital Age
CM 3027 Video Production for Broadcast News
CM 3033 Scripts for Travel
CM 3041 Modules in Mass Communication Techniques
CM 4016 Global Advocacy
CM 4026 Cultures of Music Production
CM 4028 Advanced Video Production
Any Film Pragmatics Course (listed as such in the Film Studies major)
Media
Convergence
CM 2021 The Internet and Globalization
CM 3035 Theory and Practice of Digital Interactivity
IT/CM 3038 Digital Media I
CS/CM 3048 Human-Computer Interaction
Any International Cinema course (listed as such in the Film Studies major)
Integrated
Marketing Communications
BA 2020 Management and Organizational Behavior
BA 2040 Marketing
BA 3030 Human Resources Management
CM 3005 Public Relations and Society
CM 3067 Advertising
CM 4048 Marketing Strategies for Brand Development
IT/CM 3002 E-Commerce
EC/CM 2003 The New Economy and the Media
EC 2010 Principles of Microeconomics
EC 2020 Principles of Macroeconomics
Journalism
* If Journalism is chosen as the specialization the student must
choose four courses under Journalism. (16 credits)
CM 2011 Journalism I
CM 2012 Journalism II
CM 3005 Public Relations and Society
CM 3013 Broadcast News Writing
CM 3046 Media Law, Policy and Ethics
CM 4012 Feature Journalism
CM 4014 Comparative Journalism
CM 4016 Global Advocacy
CM 4017 Media and War
CM 4028 Advanced Video Production
Transfer
students must take 24 credits in the major at AUP to receive their degree in
Global Communications. They must also take 16 credits of CM-listed classes of a 3000 or
above level (not including internship) at AUP.
Plus GENERAL ELECTIVES to total 128 credits.
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Global Communications |
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Communicative
Objects Seminar Series
Spring 2012
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The Communicative Objects Seminar Series is part of the partnership
between AUP and Eugene Lang and aims to put in dialogue scholars from
Paris and New York. |
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Christy Shields received a research grant
in January from the CIGC (Comité
Interprofessionnel du Gruyère de Comté) to
undertake ethnographic research focused on
the elaboration and use of Comté's "Wheel
of Aromas" as well as the related “jury
terroir” (terroir tasting panels). This
research will contribute in insightful
ways to on-going academic discussions
concerned with the relationship between
taste and place, on the one hand, and
taste as reflexive practice, on the other.
This research (and its funding) grew out
of Christy's collaboration with the CIGC
(and, in particular, with taste educator
Claire Perrot and taste scientist Florence
Bérodier) for the summer course/practicum
trip Christy designed for graduate
students in Global Communications.
Click here for more information on
this course. |
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[AUP - Posted 22 Apr 2013] |
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Matthew Fraser was
quoted by The Guardian on Sunday, March
17, 2013 in the article, “Is Nicolas
Sarkozy ready to be France's comeback
kid?” |
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[AUP - Posted 25 Mar 2013] |
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Justin McGuinness co-edited a collection
of papers on gentrification in Morocco
with Elsa Coslado (Université
François-Rabelais, Tours) and Catherine
Miller (CNRS-IREMAM, Aix-en-Provence). The
volume, entitled Médinas immuables ?
Gentrification et changement dans les
villes historiques marocaines (1996-2010),
contains articles by anthropologists,
architects and urban geographers from
Belgium, France, Germany, Morocco and
Tunisia. Published by the Centre Jacques
Berque (Rabat) in open edition on
http://cjb.revues.org/, Médinas
immuables ? is one of the first
country-specific books devoted to
gentrification in the Mediterranean
region. In addition to academic writing,
it also includes a ‘sources’ section of
interviews with key professional actors
involved in Morocco’s historic cities. |
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[AUP - Posted 5 Feb 2013] |
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Matthew Fraser published a column on the
CNN website, “Depardieu’s
Puzzling Love for Russia”, analyzing
the controversy surrounding the French
film star Gerard Depardieu’s decision to
flee high taxes in France by taking
Russian citizenship at the invitation of
Russian leader Vladimir Putin. Professor
Fraser was also interviewed on BBC World
Service on the same issue as part of a
radio discussion about national identity. |
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[AUP - Posted 14 Jan 2013] |
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Matthew Fraser, Associate Professor of
Global Communications, was quoted in this
profile of Valerie Trierlweiler in The
Guardian,
“Valérie Trierweiler: Affairs of State”.
He also wrote a
“View from France” analysis for
CNN.com on the sex scandal that forced the
resignation of CIA director David Petraeus.
The column was picked up and discussed in
the French media, notably by
Europe1. |
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[AUP - Posted 20 Nov 2012] |
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Justin McGuinness gave a paper entitled
"Expanding media freedoms in a
post-authoritarian context: Tunisia,
2011-2012" at the annual conference of the
European Communications Research
Association in Istanbul (25-27 October).
The paper featured in the conference's
Communication and Democracy section. |
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[AUP - Posted 20 Nov 2012] |
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Matthew Fraser,
Associate Professor of Global
Communications, was quoted in an article
in The Guardian titled “Marion Maréchal-Le
Pen: the new face of the French right”
about the Le Pen political dynasty in
France. |
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[AUP - Posted 31 Oct 2012] |
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Waddick Doyle
published a book chapter in Baym G. and
Jones J. News parody and Political
Satire across the Globe, Routledge
Abingdon 2013. His chapter is entitled “No
Strings Attached? Les guignols de l’info
and French Television” pp. 39-51. |
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[AUP - Posted 12 Oct 2012] |
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Justin McGuinness,
had an article published in the Journal of
North African Studies. Co-written with
architect Zoubeïr Mouhli, “Restoration
Dramas: home refurbishment in historic Fès
(Morocco)” is an exploration of how
different forms of knowledge meet, how
communication works during the
refurbishment of courtyard houses in one
of the Maghreb’s oldest Islamic cities. |
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[AUP - Posted 20 Sep 2012] |
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Jayson Harsin's
article "’Dallas à l'Elysée’: The French
Political Communication Scene Today" was
published this month in "Political
Communication Report," a publication of
the American Political Science Association
and International Communication
Association. |
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[AUP - Posted 18 Aug 2012] |
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Yudhishthir Raj Isar,
Professor of Cultural Policy Studies,
on leave
this semester,
gave the
keynote address
during
the formal launch ceremony of the
Institute for Culture and Society at the
University of Western Sydney, Australia,
held on April 13. He
prepared a White Paper entitled ‘The
Wealth of Multipolar World: New Horizons
for Cultural Exchange?’ for a seminar on
‘Shifting Economic Power: New Parameters
of Engagement in a Multi-Polar World’
organized by the Salzburg Global Seminar
and the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation
in Salzburg, Austria, April 28 – May 2 and
was a speaker at the event.
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[AUP - Posted 30 Apr 2012] |
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Justin McGuinness,
Assistant Professor of Global
Communications and Urban Studies,
gave a paper entitled
‘Mithly.net: alternative digital discourse
from Morocco, 2010-2011’ as part of the
Media, Youth Subcultures and the Politics
of Resistance in the Arab World
seminar held at the University of
Westminster on April 20, 2012. The seminar
was organised by the Arab Media Centre (AMC)
in conjunction with the university’s
Communication and Media Research Institute
(CAMRI). |
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[AUP - Posted 30 Apr 2012] |
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Jayson Harsin’s article "Cultural Studies
and/of Economic Rights: Neglect and
Promise" was published in the National
Communication Association's journal
Communication and Critical/Cultural
Studies this month. |
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[AUP - Posted 30 Apr 2012] |
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