Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication

Degree title:
Master of Arts
Degree program type:
Master's Degree
Credits:
120 cr
Language:
English
Responsible organisation:
University of Jyväskylä
Curriculum periods:
2018-2019, 2019-2020

Description

This MA programme is available only for those students who transfer from Vaasa to Jyväskylä.

The Master’s Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication (IMCo) is your key to global understanding. This full time two-year programme combines cultural and communication studies with management studies. Its aim is to educate professionals who will work in networked societies and who will develop and apply organizational knowledge with expertise in communication in multicultural contexts. The programme offers you the opportunity to develop into a specialist in managing diversity and communication processes in intercultural settings.

With a Master's degree from the programme, you will be a specialist in intercultural communication and qualified for working in both public and private organisations, for example as an international coordinator, project manager, human resources manager, information officer, public relations specialist, researcher or educator.

Learning outcomes

After completing the programme the student will
- know how to manage intercultural and multilingual communication in multicultural environments
- know the ways in which multiculturalism structures societies
- understand the mechanisms of communication and the role of digital media in a networked society
- be able to navigate confidently and smoothly in a multicultural, multilingual world.

Structure

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