Master of Arts
in Global Communication / Study Schemes

Study Scheme for 2025-2026

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For details, please refer to the Course Lists.

Specialized Streams

Students can declare a specialization by completing any two courses within the streams below. Students can also choose not to specialize.

Stream in “Global Media”: Upon completion of the stream, students will graduate with a specialization recognizing their knowledge and skills in analyzing global media systems and industries, ICTs, and managing global media content. Students who have taken any two courses from COMM5612, COMM5690, COMM5723, COMM5725, COMM5773, COMM5775, COMM6420 or COMM6612*** are eligible for graduation with specialization in this stream.

Stream in “Social Change and Advocacy”: Upon completion of the stream, students will graduate with a specialization recognizing their knowledge and skills in understanding and analyzing the mechanisms of social change and advocacy by focusing on the intersections between society, culture, communication, and politics within the China context as well as on a global scale. They will have studied current cultural, social, and political topics related to globalization and social change, mechanisms of marginalization, and issues pertaining to the human rights discourse. Students are able to reflect critically on ways of engaging in social change and on the role of new information and communication technology (e.g. social media) in social change. Students who have taken any two courses from COMM5510, COMM5530, COMM5649, COMM5650, COMM5725, COMM5735, COMM5771 or COMM5772 are eligible for graduation with specialization in this stream.

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Study Scheme for 2026-2027
(subject to the University’s final approval)

1.  Coursework Requirement (subject to the University’s final approval)

Four Required courses

• COMM5120 Emerging Global Media and Cultures
• COMM5520 Applied Communication Research
• COMM5710 Seminar in Communication Theories
• COMM5711 Reframing Narratives of the Global

Plus Four Elective Courses

2. Specialized Streams (subject to the University’s final approval)

Students can declare a specialization in one of the following streams. Students can also choose not to specialize.

Specialization Stream 1 : “Challenges of Global Futures”

The specialization stream prepares students to work in a multi-stakeholder ecosystem, and recognise the roles and responsibilities of different actors and their local networks to building global futures. Students recognise the possibility and capacity of different fields and agents to address, support, and challenge SDGs as a part of collective future building.

Any 2 courses to be chosen from the following Critical Knowledge Courses
COMM5510, COMM5590, COMM5723, COMM5725, COMM5775, COMM5992 

Any 1 course to be chosen from the following Expert Skill Building Courses
COMM5838, COMM5771,COMM5947, COMM6420         

And the following Core Competence course
COMM5773    

Specialization Stream 2 : “Making and Measuring Impact”

This specialization orients the students to recognise the role of communication in developing meaningful narratives, measurements, assessments, and aspirations of impact by various stakeholders in our global future making. Students are equipped with critical theory, iterative tools, and the capacity to do comparative, cross-over, and comprehensive impact monitoring, evaluation, and assessment for intersectional actors building global futures.

Any 2 courses to be chosen from the following Critical Knowledge Courses
COMM5636, COMM5725, COMM5735, COMM5773, COMM5775, COMM5992 

Any 1 course to be chosen from the following Expert Skill Building Courses
COMM5510, COMM5530, COMM5649, COMM5772, COMM5947             

And the following Core Competence course
COMM5771