Design Your Own Curriculum

Choose any combination of classes from across DIS' offerings, for a course load perfectly suited to your interests!

Be sure that you:

  • a) have all the pre- and co-requisites
  • b) don't double book yourself during any time blocks
  • c) pick only one program’s core course(s)

Communication & Mass Media
Fall, Spring 2010/11

  • Popular majors: Communication – Media Studies – Journalism – Advertising – Film Studies


Objectives | Courses | Study Tours

Objectives

TOGETHER ... the core course and study tours will give you

  • A clear understanding of the background and implications of the changes currently taking place within the global mass media industry.
  • Valuable insight into the European news and media scene provided by professionals in the field
  • Behind-the-scene glimpses of some of Europe's largest and most influential media conglomerates
  • International professional experience and skills that will increase your competitiveness in the global job market

Courses

Core Course Syllabus
Current Trends in News Media
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Study Tours

DIS places strong emphasis on combining classroom work with experiential learning to ensure you walk away with applicable, real life, cross-cultural skills for the global job market.

Study Tours – each semester

  • Denmark (Short tour). Visits to media institutions, newspapers, news agencies, and/or advertising companies enhancing your knowledge and hands-on understanding of current issues in the field of communication and mass media. In addition, there will be a number of cultural and historical visits
  • A longer European study tour to London-Oxford. Visits to media institutions to study the role of British media and, among other things, the tension between public service broadcasting and commercial interests. In addition, there will be a number of cultural and historical visits