MA Global Media and Communication

This programme aims to prepare you to work as a professional in the international media and communications industries with a specialism in a chosen area. The programme will give you a critical understanding of the 21st Century complex global media ecosystem, and will prepare you to work as a communications professional with high-end production skills to work across multiple platforms. You will also have an opportunity to further specialise and develop a niche in a subject area of particular interest via a choice of elective streams including Social Media and Digital Technology; Global Business and Financial Communication; Climate Action, Sustainability and STEM Communication, or Humanitarian Communication and Human Rights. 

Students from all streams will also complete a capstone module DJ6124 Final Project (30cr) and may undertake an optional internship during the third semester.

This stream prepares you to thrive in networked environments and combines emerging theory around traditional and social media with skills such as production, creative coding, video and podcasting. You will develop your capacity to communicate effectively in a multimedia environment and on graduation you will be ready for roles such as social producers and executives in digital communication and marketing.

Semester one
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)               
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)     
DJ6132 Digital Sandbox (10cr)                                    

Semester two
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6137 Strategic Communication (10cr)

You will build expertise in communicating a wide range of issues relating to the financial world and learn to humanise and visualise sometimes complex issues to make them accessible to a general audience. On graduation you will be ready to work in roles including financial journalism/communications, and in financial markets. Successful completion of this stream includes the Bloomberg BMC certification.

Semester one           
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)   
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)       
DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics (10cr)        

Semester two 
DJ6134 Business and Financial Journalism (10cr)
DJ6137 Strategic Communication (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)

This stream will help you develop your critical skills literacy and an ethical awareness to make sense of scientific and environmental issues and the expertise to communicate these issues through multiple media formats. On graduation you will be ready to work in roles including as climate advocacy and science communication officers with the UN, NGOs, climate, environmental and civil society organisations.

Semester one                                              
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)                      
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)       
TI216 Weather and Climate (5cr)                               

Semester two
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6144 Communicating Climate Action and Science (10cr)

In this stream you will explore the relationship between humanitarian communication and human rights and you will have an opportunity to take elective modules offered by the Irish Centre for Human Rights with guest professors such as UN experts in areas like migration and refugees. On graduation you will be ready to work as humanitarian communication officers with the civil and public service, the diplomatic corps, development organisations, the EU and the UN, NGOs, and civil society organisations. 

Semester one     
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)   
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)
LW5117 International Human Rights Law (10cr)        

Semester two
DJ6139 Humanitarian Communication (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6126 Investigating Miscarriages of Justice (10cr)