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483660 - Mass Communications (MA)

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Communications Masters MA

Application Deadline

Fall: March 31

Contact Information

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801-422-2632

mandi_rolfe@byu.edu

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ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS

  • GRE

  • Professional competencies in written and spoken English

  • 3.0 overall GPA

  • Competed a bachelor's degree or its equivalent from an accredited college or university

  • Exposure to research

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The master’s program is intended to serve as preparation for:

  • Doctoral studies where theory, teaching, research, and publication are emphasized.

  • Advancement in communications professions.

  • Beyond the courses required by the department, students select—in consultation with advisors—the specific courses that best meet their goals and interests. Generally, students with non-communications undergraduate majors will be expected to concentrate on communications electives. Those with a communications baccalaureate are encouraged to seek broadening electives outside the department.

    Requirements for Degree

  • Credit Hours (34): minimum 28 hours of course work.

  • Required courses:course, course, course, course, course (13 hours).

  • Electives: 14 credit hours from course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, course, and/or interdisciplinary substitute courses (with prior approval). Electives determined in consultation with advisor and committee.

  • Thesis (course, 6 hours minimum) or project (course, 6 hours minimum).

  • Examination: defense of thesis or project.

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Title

Understanding The Role of Media in Society

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to correctly explicate theories from the fields of communication sociology psychology and cultural anthropology and correctly apply them to significant media questions and issues facing individuals families and broader social institutions.

Title

Conducting Scientific Research

Learning Outcome

Students will be able to produce valid and reliable research in the form of theses projects conference papers and peer-reviewed journal articles. Students will be able to use appropriate quantitative and qualitative research methods to answer significant and relevant questions. Students will be able to formulate testable research questions and hypotheses and select the appropriate methodological design to answer their research questions and test their hypotheses. Students will be able to analyze their data using approporiate multivariate statistical tests and arrive at the appropriate conclusions based on those tests. Students will be able to explain the basic ontologoical and epistemological differences that undergird the quanitative and qualitative research paradigms. Students will be able to develop and execute rigorous qualitative research strategies leading to the application and development of grounded theory.

Title

Communicating Effectively

Learning Outcome

Students will learn to plan communication that serves audience needs and advances the goals of the organizations served by our graduates. Students will be able to apply theory and research to the needs of their employers. Students will increase their capacity to be competent professional communicators.

Title

Developing Scholar-Disciples

Learning Outcome

Students will understand the nexus between faith. scholarship and character. This program follows the AIMS of a BYU Education to offer an educational experience that is spiritually strengthening intellectually enlarging character building and that leads to lifelong learning and service.