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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
Up to 22 French through FR 2035 and FrenchBridge
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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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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Matthew
Fraser was a panelist debating corporate
social responsibility at the event
Communicating CSR: Being Good vs. Looking
Good, held at AUP on January 25 by the
International Association of Business
Communicators. On February 8, he gave a
talk at Sciences Po’s School of
International Affairs to a group from the
Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi attending
a “Critical Global Affairs” seminar whose
other speakers included former French
Minister of Foreign Affairs Bernard
Kouchner. At that event, Professor Fraser
spoke on “Social Media and International
Affairs”. During Social Media Week in
Paris, he moderated a panel held on
February 15 at AUP titled, “Social
Media in Corporations: Empowerment or
Surveillance?”. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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Yudhishthir
Raj Isar (on leave this semester) was a
keynote speaker at a conference organized
in Kolkata on February 10-11 by the
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
(Dresden State Art Collections) in
cooperation with the Robert Bosch Stiftung
on the topic “Urban Changes and Culture”
and was also a panelist in a public
discussion on the topic held at the Goethe
Institute, Kolkata. On February 21 he
gave a talk entitled “Unpacking the
heritage discourse” for the “Streams”
lecture series in the architectural
conservation MA of the Delhi School of
Planning and Architecture. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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Robert
Payne's chapter "Grid failure: metaphors
of subcultural time and space" has been
published in the volume
Queer
and Subjugated Knowledges: Generating
Subversive Imaginaries, edited by
Kerry H. Robinson and Cristyn Davies, now
available online from
Bentham. |
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[AUP - Posted 3 Mar 2012] |
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Waddick
Doyle has published a refereed article in
a special issue of
Popular
Communication / The International Journal
of Media and Culture (Volume 10,
Number 1-2, 2012). The special issue was
entitled "Not Necessarily the News?:
Global Approaches to News Parody and
Political Satire" and was edited by
Geoffrey Baym and Jeffrey P. Jones.
Doyle's article was entitled "No Strings
Attached? Les Guignols de l’info and
French Television." |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012] |
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Yudhishthir
Raj Isar is on leave this semester; from
March to June he will once again be an
‘Eminent Research Visitor’ with the
Institute for Culture and Society at the
University of Western Sydney, Australia.
On December 8, 2011 he took part in a
policy dialogue on Europe’s external
relations in the cultural field that was
co-organized by the European Policy Centre
and the European Cultural Foundation. The
event marked the launch of the new ‘More
Europe’ initiative aimed at promoting a
larger place for culture in the European
Union’s external relations and supported
by several leading European cultural
foundations. On December 12 and 13 he was
a guest in Amsterdam of the Prince Claus
Fund for Culture and Development for the
Fund’s 2011 Awards Ceremony held at the
Royal Palace. His chapter entitled
‘Hoggart in UNESCO: a close-up in
hindsight’ appeared in a volume entitled
Richard Hoggart:
Culture
and Critique published in December
by Critical, Cultural and Communications
Press – CCCP). |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Feb 2012] |
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Matthew
Fraser spoke at the two-day "Social Media
Impact" conference in Marrakech at the end
of October. Organized by iCompetences, the
event brought together social media
experts from around the world to discuss
issues and challenges for organizations
and business. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Dec 2011] |
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Yudhishthir
Raj Isar spoke on the topic ‘Arts
Institutions and the Intercultural
Challenge: Rhetoric and Practice’ at a
conference entitled ‘Nordic or Global
Visual Culture’ organized by the Danish
Arts Agency at the Design Museum,
Copenhagen, on November 4. The previous
evening, he was interviewed on the issue
in the evening news program of Denmark’s
TV2 channel. Having been selected by the
European Commission’s Educational
Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency
as an ‘external expert’ to evaluate
cultural policy proposals submitted for
funding, he took part in a selection panel
held in Brussels on November 21 and 22.
On November 22, he also took part in a
meeting in Brussels of the ‘High Level
Advisory Group for a Renewed Strategy of
the Anna Lindh Foundation for
Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue’ and moderated
the final session of the meeting entitled
‘Strategy, Programme and Institutional
Framework’. His review article entitled
‘Cultural politics micro and macro’ has
appeared in the
International Journal of Cultural Policy,
2011, 1-3. |
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[AUP - Posted 2 Dec 2011] |
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