About the Academic Track

About the Academic Track

We strongly feel this need for postgraduate studies in the media, with the emergence of interest in media phenomena related to issues of professionalism among journalists, issues of press freedoms, legislation that regulates the work of media outlets, and the growing news role of websites, which requires heading towards the preparation of university studies and in-depth scientific research that Contribute to the study of media phenomena and issues in a scientific and systematic manner.

Vision:

The Faculty of Media and Communication at International Suleiman University offers a master’s of media with its high-quality, world-class courses in the various subjects included in the academic track, and they are constantly subject to review. with a view to developing it for the better.
The university directs the mental and psychological energies of its students towards creativity, innovation, criticism, independent thinking, curiosity, scientific research, self-learning, continuing to acquire knowledge after graduation, the ability to communicate with others, and a highly qualified readiness to solve problems.

Mission:

The Institute of Postgraduate Studies seeks to create a distinguished teaching environment that fosters the graduation of students who have acquired – in their various fields of specialization – comprehensive knowledge and excellent professional skills, which qualify them to compete effectively in the labor market, and enhance their high competence that leads them to success in their practical future. Among them are useful members of their society, and they have the ability to develop it, and the readiness to deal with the challenges of the modern world and its accelerating changes.

Educational process

The educational process at the university is based on two complementary foundations, namely: providing the student with full theoretical knowledge in the field of his specialization, and practical and experimental applications in this specialization.

Key Features of the Academic Track

  • Providing the opportunity to qualify and train the new generation of media professionals specialized in the fields of journalism and media with its various specializations and fields of knowledge.
  • Provide the opportunity to enable students to keep up with the great progress in media and communication sciences.
  • Seeking to train students on the latest devices and equipment that are used in the modern communication industry, and in the fields of media production in all its fields.
  • Seek to enrich the scientific and professional level of students enrolled in the track and prepare them in line with the needs of the labor market.
  • Preparing media-qualified university cadres to assume the jobs required by development communication and specialized media.
  • Strengthening the relationship between the university and the media institutions, through the training opportunities available in these institutions, and providing the media institutions with youth media personnel capable of advancing the media professions.
  • Preparing a group of students to pursue postgraduate studies to provide distinguished university educational competencies to meet the needs of media departments and colleges.

Learning and Assessment

The First Stage

  • The student studies eight courses, distributed as follows:
    √ Six compulsory courses.
    √Two elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for master’s students.
  • The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
  • The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the capabilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
  • Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
  • If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.

The Second Stage

● The student is assigned a virtual course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the bachelor’s level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty. Accurate.

The Thrid Stage

Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a master’s degree in Media and Communication.

  • The student must pass the prescribed academic courses with at least 70%.
  • The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
  • The student submits a request to the university administration to register a master’s thesis with a suggested topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
  • If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
  • The research plan includes the importance of the subject and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the methodology of the study and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the division of the study and its sources.
  • The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
  • The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
  • The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
  • In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.

Jury discussion and degree awarding

  • The minimum period for preparing a master’s thesis is nine months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is two years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
  • The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
  • After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submitting a full copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the specialty, for presentation to the Council the faculty.
  • It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
  • The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
  • The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
  • Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 degrees, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
  • The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
  • Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.
  • The thesis is approved after common discussion by the jury with one of the grades shown in the following table:
DefinitionPointGrade
Excellent4.00A+
Excellent3.75A
Very Good3.50B+
Very Good3.00B
Good2.50C+
Average2.00C
Pass on probation1.50D+
Pass on probation1.00D
Fail0.00F
  • The following grades are not taken into account for the semester or cumulative GPA.
Thesis or project in progress:DP
Incomplete:I
In progress:IP
Registration has been suspended:L
The grade has not been decided:NGR
Did not take the final exam.:NP
Transferred course.:T
Withdraw from the course.:W
The course covers two semesters, the degree is given at the end of the spring or summer semester.:YR
There are no credit hours.:NC
One credit hour taken as a private student. The credit hours and the degree do not count towards the degree:ND
Re-submitted course, only the last grade is used in calculating the GPA.:R
Credit taken as a special student. Credit hours and grade counted towards a degree.:S

Credits
Before the 2016-2017 fall semester 1 credit point is equivalent to 1 semester lecture hour. In the 2016 – 2017 fall semester the University introduced the ECTS – European Credit Transfer System.

Academic Calendar
International Suleiman University calendar is based on the semester system. Each semester has a duration of 15 weeks including the week of the final exam. The summer semester is 10 weeks long, including the final exam.

Academic Structure

Academic Structure
8 courses = 32 credit hours,
 practical training = 10 credit hours
 Master's thesis = 18 credit hours
Courses
Practical Training
Master's Thesis

Curriculum

Core Courses for General Track

Scientific Research Methodology

Course name: Scientific Research Methodology

Course code: MMC101

Credit hours: 4.00

The course aims to train students to prepare research in the media, by identifying the most important steps of the research process such as the research problem, scientific hypotheses, concepts and variables, data collection methods, data analysis tools, and reaching results and generalizations, in addition to defining the most important approaches used in the field. media and Communication.

COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC OPINION

Course name: COMMUNICATION AND PUBLIC OPINION

Course code: MCMC101

Credit hours: 4.00

This course investigates the role of public opinion in modern politics. It explains the way in which communications shape public opinion, and how in turn public opinion affects politician and public policy making both in the domestic and the international arena. The course combines theoretical discussion of the key literature and an empirical survey project that allows students practically apply a main empirical technique in public opinion research.

VISUAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

Course name: VISUAL MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION

Course code: MCMC102

Credit hours: 4.00

This course explores the role of visual imagery plays in contemporary society, by means of looking at the visual as a key communication as well as economic and culture resources. The course offers an overview of critical theories of visual communications and more contemporary takes on visual analysis. The course relies on a wide range of examples and case studies from key communication industries including: advertising, stock photography, branding and urban planning.

COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

Course name: COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT

Course code: MCMC103

Credit hours: 4.00

The aim of this course is to assist students to develop the skills to plan, design and execute and will enhance student’s competencies in the principles and techniques for managing communications projects. Students will be equipped to apply communications management research and skills to business projects, as well as identify and respond to potential business and communications issues.

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Course name: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES

Course code: MCMC104

Credit hours: 4.00

The course is intended to develop foundational knowledge and skills in the field of media communications and designed for students from a range of backgrounds and skill levels. The course focuses on combining qualitative research with critical social and cultural theories in order to emphasize how the digital media researchers uses, adapts and critically reflects on methods and concepts to research problems or questions.

MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION THEORY

Course name: MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION THEORY

Course code: MCMC105

Credit hours: 4.00

The course examines the most current theories in media & communications. The course provides a foundation in concepts and models of the media and communications theories. The course aims to give students an overview of major culture, political and social approaches to the study of media and communication. We will consider the contribution of selected approaches and students are encouraged to pursue individual academic interests in relation to such approaches.

Elective Courses for General Track

MEDIA AND SOCIETY

Course name: MEDIA AND SOCIETY

Course code: MCMC151

Credit hours: 4.00

This course is based on the promise that media, and the industries that produce media products, play significant cultural and political roles in contemporary societies. Drawing upon various media including television, film & the internet. Students will review the social, economic and political organization of media, the content and effects of media messages, and the important role played by media in preserving, reforming social values at the local and global levels. During this course you will have the opportunity of doing interpretative as well as critical research on a variety of popular cultural forms (e.g., advertising images, feature films, news programs and documentaries, talk show, sit-coms, dramas, websites and internet.

MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM

Course name: MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM

Course code: MCMC152

Credit hours: 4.00

MULTIMEDIA JOURNALISM
This course will emphasis how to research and report critically and analytically on a variety of story types, using audio, video print and web based text, photographs, and combinations of media.

MEDIA AUDIENCES

Course name: MEDIA AUDIENCES

Course code: MCPR153

Credit hours: 4.00

This course introduces students to the core concepts and ideas related to media audiences. Media audiences refer to people and their media practices. This course focuses on studies within media and culture that define audiences not as spectators, or passive subjects, but rather as people engaged in dynamic and creative practices such as political activism, citizen journalism, fan activities, or television participants.

MEDIA, CULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION

Course name: MEDIA, CULTURE AND GLOBALIZATION

Course code: MCMC154

Credit hours: 4.00

This course introduces students to the globalization of the media and communication and addresses their implications on local, regional and global level with reference the context, texts, technologies and practices of media production and media consumption. During the course we will examine the main characteristics of global media and communication industries and their economic and cultural role. We will focus on examples from a wide range of contemporary “flows”, including innovative forms of global media communication, such as those found in branding and visual/ material culture.

WRITING FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSE

Course name: WRITING FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSE

Course code: MCMC155

Credit hours: 4.00

This course is designed to cater for the document writing requirements of a wide variety of professions. The various document type is categorized by their functions; for example, “writing for organizational management” and “writing for the media”. A range of document types will be covered within each category and theoretical background will also be provided.

THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

Course name: THE MEDIA INDUSTRY

Course code: MCMC156

Credit hours: 4.00

This course allows students to plan and execute the creation of substantial industry-based media project. This may be produced in the context of an internship. The course will develop student’s Skills to discern the specific needs of an industry partner and to apply the media and communication skills developed throughout the degree, to plan and implement project strategies.

Institute of Postgraduate Studies

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Degree: Master's Degree
Track code: MA102MC
Study method: Distance Learning
Credit hour: 60
How long it takes: 
Full time: 2 years
Part time: 4 years
Limit time: 6 years
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