MA in Journalism Master’s students choose a special area that prepares them for a career in electronic, print and online multimedia.
Master’s Program in Journalism offers many opportunities for media professionals, academic researchers, educators, and recent graduates to expand their education and training within the mass communication field. The courses offered cultivate strong research, analytical and multimedia skills that prove advantageous to the media professionals as well as to those interested in continuing their educat
ion at the doctoral level. The program also enables students whose undergraduate major may not have been mass communication to gain a skills and theory base for mass communication careers. Our Curriculum is designed to provide the knowledge and skills needed for modern journalists to tell stories across all platforms in a converged news environment. Master’s Program in Journalism opens up a worldwide network of media professionals for journalists, valuable information and knowledge in the field of journalism in English, opportunities for practicing at various leading world media and for professional development at international seminars, trainings and workshops for journalists, as well as to receive grants and scholarships for research projects and investigative journalism, access to free online courses in journalism, etc. The courses will be held in an intellectually stimulating, well-resourced learning environment, with strong links to media and communications industries, policy makers and the third sector. This program will be taught by professors in the field of journalism and mass communications and professionals with experience in the field of media and communications from Europe, the United States and Canada. The courses offered by the program include various cutting-edge topics such as data journalism, data visualization, application development, online design and publishing, coding, media management, gender and media, media research methods, audience analysis, etc. Upon graduation, students are prepared to begin a career in communication policy or research, within communication industries, or as an educator at the community college level. Masters in Journalism and Mass Communications at AUCA is looking for the leaders of the next generation of journalists—strongly motivated individuals with reverence for truth, a hunger to discover and to inform, a deep regard for thorough analysis, and an ardent embrace of civic engagement.
