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GRADUATE PROGRAMS
The central objective of the Master of Arts program in the School of Communication & Multimedia Studies is to equip students with historical, theoretical and critical knowledge of oral, written, visual and aural symbol systems, the institutions and processes which produce them, and the audiences/readers who engage them. The goal of the degree is to focus and enhance students' ongoing and future efforts in communication-related professions or activities or to prepare them for doctoral studies and/or academic careers. The program emphasizes the intersections among film, media, rhetoric, cultural studies, and human communication. Teaching assistantships are available. Special opportunities are available for early admission to the Ph.D. program in Comparative Studies at FAU.
Florida Atlantic University is located 20 miles north of Fort Lauderdale, 40 miles north of Miami, and four miles from the beaches of the Atlantic Ocean. The University's location provides easy access to cultural events and sites of commercial and noncommercial media production in surrounding metropolitan areas.
Intercultural, Cultural and Rhetorical Communication Studies
Intercultural, Cultural and Rhetorical Communication Studies explores communication between persons of differing cultural identities, the symbols used to characterize them, and the power relations evident in cultural texts, their producers and their readers.
Film and Media Studies
Film and Media Studies analyzes the power and responsibility of film, television, print media and new technologies from formal, historical, economic, institutional and ideological perspectives.
Multimedia Journalism Studies
Multimedia Journalism Studies highlights the new challenges to journalism in a changing public sphere defined by the emergence of new technologies, global media organizations and a 24-hour news cycle.
General Studies
This concentration allows students to bring together courses from all of the concentrations into a focused program which explores general issues in Communication Studies.
Important information for graduate students
