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Combined B.A./M.A. Program

Combined B.A./M.A. Program in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies

Northeastern University’s combined B.A./M.A. degree program allows for the exploration of media and communication through the research traditions of media and cultural studies. The B.A./M.A. in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies is a combined program that allows students to advance on their master’s course work in the final year of undergraduate study and complete the M.A. requirements in a post-senior year. Participants in this program will graduate with a BA in Communication Studies and an MA in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies. The program is designed to develop critical and analytical skills for application to the study of contemporary culture, working with a core of nationally and internationally respected media and cultural studies scholars. International in scope and transdisciplinary in nature, the program invites applications from juniors to complete this combined bachelors and masters program.

Study in an innovative program that helps you make sense of contemporary culture…

B.A./M.A. students will chose from a list of identified advanced undergraduate courses. Students will also meet in a designated section of Senior Seminar, designed to prepare them for graduate work. In their sixth. year they will take intensive B.A./M.A. students-only seminars. In this final year the combined degree can be completed through the successful writing of a thesis and coursework, a project and coursework, or a coursework only option.

What you gain from the Northeastern B.A./M.A. in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies…

The program is designed to:

• Intersect with the information economy to enable students to engage in critical debates within the economic and cultural sectors.
• Prepare students to advance to doctoral study.
• Assist students and professionals interested in a challenging advanced degree for entering or returning to the media, communication and cultural job market.

Applying

Minimum admission qualifications
To be eligible for admission consideration, students must be majoring in Communication Studies and have an overall GPA of 3.3 in the first one and a half years of undergraduate study and a GPA of 3.5 in their Communication Studies coursework. Within this pool of students, the admission to the B.A./M.A. will be competitive.

Admission Materials Required:

• BA / MA Application Form (available from the Department of Communication Studies [101 Lake Hall] or the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences)
• Personal statement of intent (500 words)
• Scholarly writing sample
• One letter of recommendation (from the student’s head advisor)

Applications must be submitted directly to:
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
124 Meserve Hall
Application deadline for the Fall semester is August 1

Contact Information
Associate Professor Marcus Breen, Graduate Coordinator (m.breen@neu.edu)
Angela Chin, Administrative Assistant (a.chin@neu.edu)

Curriculum

MA degree requires 34 semester hours as detailed below:

Junior and Senior Years
8 semester hours of advanced undergraduate coursework

Graduate (post-senior) Year
18 semester hours of graduate CMN coursework
*Thesis Option: 6 sh of the 18 sh are Thesis
*Media Production Project Option: 6 sh of the 18 sh are Media Production
Project
*Coursework Option: all 18 sh are coursework

Courses

Advanced Undergraduate Courses
Students choose from the following courses in their final undergraduate year of study.

Senior Seminar CMN U901 * (required)
Special Topics in Media Studies CMN U912
Special Topics in Public Communication CMN U910
Independent/Directed Study in Communication Studies CMN U904
New Media Culture CMN U622
Political Communication CMN U610
Discourse Analysis CMN U601
Advanced Television Production CMN U699

Graduate Courses to be announced

Additional Program Information

Combined Undergraduate/Master’s Program in
Communication, Media and Cultural Studies

Undergraduate Requirements (128 semester hours):
May include up to 15 semester hours of graduate CMN coursework

Graduate Requirements (30 semester hours):
30 semester hours of graduate coursework (some students will take 33 semester hours); 15 semester hours of which are taken in the post-senior year (some students will take 18 semester hours in the post-senior year).
*Thesis Option: 6 semester hours of the 15 semester hours are Thesis
*Media Production Project Option: 6 semester hours of the 15 semester hours are Media Production Project
*Coursework Option

Options Table

Thesis	Production	Course Work
15 credits = advanced graduate courses junior and senior years	15 credits = advanced graduate courses junior and senior years	15 credits = advanced graduate courses junior and senior years
15-18 graduate credits in post senior year and thesis	15-18 graduate credits in post senior year and production	15 graduate credits in post senior year
6 graduate credits = thesis	6 graduate credits = production	------
30 credits (some students will complete 33 credits)	30 credits (some students will complete 33 credits)	30 credits

Faculty

Marcus Breen, Graduate Coordinator, Ph.D., Victoria University of Technology, Australia
Murray Forman, Ph.D., McGill University, Canada
Joanne Morreale, Ph.D., Temple University
Vincent Rocchio, Ph.D., New York University
Craig Robertson, Ph.D., University of Illinois
Kumarini Silva, Ph.D., University of Oregon