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Professional Communication, MA
Program Overview
The Master of Arts in Professional Communication (MAPC) program is a 32-unit graduate program that can be completed in two years. Students complete two core and three elective courses. Full-time students enroll in courses each fall and spring semester. Courses are also available in the summer. The degree culminates in either a capstone with a culminating project, such as a reflective portfolio, analytical paper, academic research project, or relevant work or internship-related project.
Program Structure
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Fall classes begin in the third week of August. Spring classes begin in the third week of January. Please visit the Academic Calendar for other important dates.
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Classes are held on weekdays starting at 6 p.m.
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The MA in Professional communications includes all of the above. We pride ourselves on giving students hands on experience that they can use out in the field to help achieve their personal and professional goals.
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Concentrations
The program focuses on three areas of communication:
- Health Communication: This concentration equips students with the theoretical and practical communication tools needed to effectively and ethically impact public and personal health literacy through developing health awareness campaigns, improving patient relationships, and explaining health care policy. Health communication professionals are critical to making complex health care issues understandable so employers, regulators, policy makers, and consumers can be informed and take appropriate action to build healthier communities and live healthier lives.
- Strategic Communication: Strategic communicators work as strategists, planners, designers, and leaders to develop results-oriented plans and target messages both within and outside of organizations to impact behavior and reputation. Students enrolled in this concentration analyze how organizations interact internally and externally with their stakeholders, industry, and traditional or digital media. Students also gain practical communication skills that give them a competitive edge in a changing hybrid and in-person workplace that is still evolving.
- Technical Communication: Technical communicators translate complex scientific, engineering, or technical information into content that users can understand and utilize. Students enrolled in this concentration learn how to communicate to the user while ensuring that the product or service has a competitive advantage. As technology and AI advances and changes the way a number of industries gather, analyze, and integrate data, the demand for such skilled, user-centered, and agile technical communicators has never been greater.
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