Communication Studies

Overview

Communication studies addresses the ways in which words, images, gestures, and symbols reflect and affect human behavior. At Methodist University Ghana, we explore the many ways that communication can be used — and sometimes abused — to effect change in culture, law, politics, business, and every other realm in which people express themselves.

One day in class, your professor might show a social media post from a politician or celebrity. You and your classmates analyze, critique, and discuss that post from different angles, such as its medium, its message, its meanings both expressed and implied, the credibility of the messenger, and the cultural impact of the message. Then you write your own social-media post in response.

Career Opportunities

Our graduates work and intern in a range of jobs in a broad range of fields — public relations, marketing, advertising, social media, television, radio, magazines, human resources, event planning, education, nonprofits, and technology. We’ve also had graduates start their own businesses and others go on to graduate school in communication, law, public health, strategic communications, and education.

Program Learning Outcomes

Demonstrate an understanding of how communication shapes patterns of social interaction, the expression of cultural values and norms, political practices and relations of power, and our positions as local and global citizens.

Be able to use a variety of methodological tools to analyze interpersonal, intercultural, and rhetorical discourse that structures everyday interactions in both our public and private lives.

Demonstrate an understanding of the possibilities, problems, and history of discourse and deliberation in democracy and will be prepared to use their knowledge to work for a just and more humane world.

Programme

Semester 1 Credits Number
PROJECT/LONG ESSAY IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES 4 ESTU 203
Communication & Everyday Life 2 ESTU 340
Critical & Rhetorical Methods 4 ESTU 657
Semester 2CreditsNumber
PROJECT/LONG ESSAY IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES4ESTU 203
Communication & Everyday Life2ESTU 340
Critical & Rhetorical Methods4ESTU 657
Semester 3CreditsNumber
Relational Communication4ESTU 768
Public Relations Campaigns4ESTU 432
Rhetoric of Social Movements2ESTU 873
Semester 4CreditsNumber
Relational Communication4ESTU 768
Public Relations Campaigns4ESTU 432
Rhetoric of Social Movements2ESTU 873
Semester 5CreditsNumber
Rhetoric & the Public Sphere4ESTU 203
Communication & Everyday Life2ESTU 340
Critical & Rhetorical Methods4ESTU 657
Semester 6CreditsCode
MEDIA PRACTICE(Print Media)3MENC332
ADVANCED ADVERTISING3MENC334
COMMUNICATION RESEARCH AND DESIGN3MENC336
Semester 7CreditsNumber
INTRODUCTION TO ONLINE MEDIA3MENC431
NEWS REPORTING AND EDITING3MENC433
MODERN ENGLISH STRUCTURE AND USAGE3MENC435
TECHNOLOGY AND COMMUNICATION3MENC437
Semester 8CreditsNumber
PROJECT/LONG ESSAY IN COMMUNICATION STUDIES3MENC440
MULTIMEDIA3MENC432
MEDIA PRACTICE II(ELECTRONIC MEDIA)3MENC434
FOUNDATIONS IN MEDIA:LOGIC, EVIDENCE AND RESEARCH3MENC436
CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE3MENC438
Total for the entire period of study  

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