This department concentrates on how media and communication reflect on politics, governance, and the future of media democracy. We explore with the students’ new visions that interplay between politicians, economists, journalists, governing systems and citizens as evolving media landscapes that connect all these elements.

As technology, culture, and geopolitics undergo major transformations in the world and in the media arena, in our department we project on how the way societies make demands, contest ideas, and negotiate the struggle for power. Our curriculum enhances critical thinking of our students to examine global crises, mass protests, sustainable development, ideological realignments, economic changes, etc.... We encourage our students to understand how political ideas are crafted, communicated, and mediated through people, symbols, and technologies. We take a broad view of “media” and “politics,” analyzing political communication across local, national, and transnational contexts; from traditional to social media and the everyday interactions that bind or break societies. By studying the dynamic relationships among media, industry, economy and politics, we shed light on some of the most pressing questions of our time such as, how the role of information is shaping trust and political engagement nationally and internationally through communication practices and theoretical frameworks.

• Implement persuasive communication techniques.
• Abide by ethical standards of the profession.
• Compete in the field of journalism internationally.
• Contribute to the development of the field nationally and regionally.
• Understand and measure public opinion.
• Report using professional journalist standards.
• Utilize acquired skills in two languages.
• Understand local and global economic, political and cultural conditions.

• Recognize local, regional, and international principles and laws of freedom of speech
• Distinguish the history and role of professionals and institutions in shaping political communication
• Recognize the dynamics of public opinion
• Distinguish between the different communication models and theories
• Identify forms of diversity in domestic society in relation to mass communication and its global impact on society
• Discuss the effects of the media on influencing public opinion
• Identify national and international moral values and legal boundaries in the field
• Describe the development of local, regional and international media policies.
• Distinguish the effect of technological and cultural conditions on diversity in global political communication standards.

• Apply principles and laws of freedom of speech and press locally, regionally and internationally.
• Build creative advertising campaigns.
• Conduct multi-disciplined research and evaluate information.
• Conduct public opinion polls.
• Write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the professional communications and audiences
• Critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, an appropriate style, and grammatical correctness, Report objectively
• Apply basic numerical and statistical concepts.
• Produce radio slots and television newscasts
• Host talk-shows.
• Apply visual communication techniques in producing documentaries and photojournalism pieces.
• Work ethically in pursuit of truth, accuracy, fairness and diversity.
• Apply theories in the use and presentation of images and information.
• Apply investigative reporting techniques using the interdisciplinary knowledge of politics, economics and public administration.
• Conduct interviews professionally.
• Create political campaigns.
• Manage media organizations.
• Abide by ethical values and legal boundaries in journalism nationally, regionally and internationally.
• Apply current tools and technologies appropriate for the communications professions and understand the digital world.
• Edit audio and visual material.
• Cover conflicts according to professional journalistic standards.
• Implement the mass media theories in the field work.
• Evaluate different financing options for media organizations.

• Analyze the impact of media on shaping public opinion.
• Compare the effectiveness of media organizations in applying professional standards.
• Analyze controversial issues and situations.
• Examine the implications of media ownership on media messages.
• Think critically, creatively and independently.
• Create new ideas to be used in advertisement campaigns.
• Explain controversial issues in an argumentative way.

• Use computers and the Internet.
• Use statistical programs in analyzing research data.
• Work in a team environment.
• Translate to and from other languages.
• Apply practical and professional problem solving techniques.