The Master of Arts in Communication and Culture degree will equip you to trace the contours of contemporary culture, interpret its movements and messages, and engage its challenges from a Christian worldview. Our graduates have launched entrepreneurial ventures, designed projects to address poverty, developed material to raise awareness of human trafficking, researched religious movements, continued to doctoral studies. They are entrepreneurs and business people, youth pastors, outreach directors, community workers and doctoral students.
As a student, you will be able to:
Direct Your Study. Past students have concentrated on subjects like bioethics, international human rights, urban studies, racial reconciliation, media studies, and education. The degree offers emphases in bioethics, human rights, religious studies and social entrepreneurship.
Study with Experts. Our faculty are engaging bioethics, Native Americans issues, social justice, new religious movements, human and religious rights.
Engage Culture while Studying. Our students have written academic articles, researched cultural issues, and given academic presentations. They have designed projects to address poverty, micro-enterprise, religious illiteracy among others.
The MA in Communication and Culture (MA/CAC) provides an integrative approach to communication, cultural analysis, social interpretation, and transformative cultural engagement, with an emphasis on communication in a variety of contexts. The degree requirements are meant to provide students with the basic interdisciplinary tools to analyze, interpret, engage, and address culture. The program draws on communication theory, ethics, philosophy, sociology, history, and theology, in order to provide the critical tools for facing the challenges of a shifting cultural context. MA/CAC electives are offered both to assist in the analysis of the contours of contemporary culture and to permit exploration of those contours according to a given student’s interests or vocational trajectory.
Increasing numbers of students are considering career paths that lead them into areas of intentional cultural engagement including public policy, education, sociology, law, business, urban studies, church mission, and working with advocacy groups. This curriculum provides the foundations and flexibility to meet these students’ needs. Nontraditional students are often seeking postgraduate training that will meet both specific credentialing needs and allow targeted areas for critical analysis. The Communication and Culture program fulfills these needs as well. Those students who wish to pursue doctoral work in the humanities and social sciences will also find this degree useful.
“The faculty spend significant time, in and out of the classroom, preparing students to successfully enter the teaching profession.”
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cultural engagement, with an emphasis on communication in a variety of contexts. The degree requirements are meant to provide students with the basic interdisciplinary tools to analyze, interpret, engage, and address culture. The program draws on communication theory, ethics, philosophy, sociology, history, and theology, in order to provide the critical tools for facing the challenges of a shifting cultural context. MA/CAC electives are offered both to assist in the analysis of the contours of contemporary culture and to permit exploration of those contours according to a given student’s interests or vocational trajectory.
