Pursue a track that aligns best with your post-graduation plans and career goals.
Miami serves as a multicultural, dynamic, and diverse base for this program.
Student Learning Competencies
Through this program, student will develop essential skills across four competencies crucial to organizational advancement:
Leadership & Teamwork
Cultivate organizational, interpersonal, small group, and leadership fluency skills.
Course examples: Small Group Processes, Leadership Communication, Managing Conflict in Organizations, Interpersonal Communication
Organizational Diversity
Understand how culture, gender, and diversity inform, shape, and define organizational success.
Course examples: Culture and Organizations and Gender Issues in Leadership
Organizational Research
Develop practical and actionable data collection and analysis skills including basic competencies in visualization, analysis, and interpretation.
Course examples: Applied Research Methods, Organizational Analysis, Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization
Write-Read-Lead
In the contemporary business world, if you can’t speak compellingly and write with purpose, you’re going to work for someone who can.
Course examples: Persuasion and The Executive Communicator
4 Graduate Track Options
Communication Studies
This general track allows students greater flexibility to design their course of study.
Health Communication
Explore the roles of patients and caregivers, social and cultural issues, the role of mass media in a health-care context, and more.
Intercultural Communication
Learn how intercultural settings and culture impact policy, perceptions, communication functions, history, and more.
Organizational Communication
Organizations are complex networks of people, personalities, partnerships, and perspectives. Organizational effectiveness is defined by one’s ability to bring these diverse perspectives together to create dynamic and flexible institutions that are adaptable and resilient to a rapidly changing world. In the Communication Studies, M.A. program we take a people-centered approach to leadership, translating a well-established body of theory-based research into practice-based learning, including core knowledge and skills that professionals need to be highly successful in their chosen careers. Our program is designed to cultivate interpersonal, organizational, and cultural competencies necessary for career advancement and success.
Day in the Life as a Communication Studies graduate student
Admission FAQs
Research Day
Each year, students and faculty gather for Research Day which explores the innovative and interdisciplinary work being done across the School of Communication. Last year’s theme, “The Power of Stories to Create Social Change,” highlighted Communication and Public Relations research in addition to VR projects focused on health and social change. Past keynote speakers include Dr. Melanie Green of the University at Buffalo and Dr. Walid Afifi of UC Santa Barbara.
