GRADUATE PROGRAMS
73% of all Communication M.A. students are underrepresented minorities.
Graduate Study
The city of Atlanta, a major world media center, offers graduate students a wealth of opportunities. Georgia State is within walking distance of CNN, Turner Broadcasting System (TBS), Edelman and Fortune 500 companies. Atlanta is also home to the Martin Luther King Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Students are mentored by a highly acclaimed and passionate faculty that includes Emmy- and Sundance-award winning media makers and accomplished and prolific scholars.
Master of Arts in Communication
The Master of Arts degree in Communication is a multidisciplinary degree designed to prepare communication professionals and academicians for the demands of the twenty-first century. Required core classes are designed to provide coherence to the multidisciplinary offerings of the program by providing an overview of the communications field and by introducing concepts common and debated in all areas of communication.
M.A. in Human Communication and Social Influence
M.A. in Mass Communication
M.A. in Digital Media Strategies
A strong demand exists in the public and private sectors for advanced instruction in media practices in Public Relations, Digital Journalism, Corporate Communication, and other media-focused positions in fields such as Sports Journalism, Health Communication, and Entertainment News, as Atlanta continues to be a major media market in its own right, employing approximately 3,150 editors, broadcasters, reporters and analysts, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Ph.D. Public Communication
The doctoral program in communication encourages students to engage in theoretically rigorous, methodologically sophisticated and ethically informed research. Our students are encouraged to undertake research that makes a difference and contributes substantively to the human understanding of how communication and media fundamentally shape and are shaped by an increasingly complex social world.
The curriculum draws upon social scientific and humanities-based theories and methods to prepare a diverse group of students for a job market that expects them to be literate across multiple sub-disciplinary domains of communication, in particular, media studies, rhetoric and speech communication.
Doctoral students work with graduate faculty who have gained national and international prominence across a diverse range of research areas, including:
- International media and politics
- Health communication
- Strategic communication
- Media effects and psychology
- Media representation and stereotypes
- Rhetorical studies
- Legal communication
- Journalism studies
- Media ethics
- Visual communication
- Environmental and critical animal studies
- Terrorism studies
- Public argument and deliberation
- Persuasion, public relations
- Interpersonal and intergroup communication
- Networks
- Ideological formations of power and resistance
The intellectual and creative energies activated by this rich and interdisciplinary activity within Atlanta’s dynamic urban location make the department an ideal place for students from around the world to prepare for a career in communication.
Graduate Faculty
Core Graduate Faculty
Core faculty can teach doctoral-level seminar/research courses, serve as PhD/MA advisors, and serve on graduate student committees.
Associate Graduate Faculty
Associate graduate faculty can serve as MA advisors and serve on MA/PhD committees.
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The Department of Communication
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8:30 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
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10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
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Department of Communication
800 Twenty Five Park Place NE
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
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Department of Communication
Georgia State University
P.O. Box 5060
Atlanta, GA, 30302-5060