CERTIFICATE IN INTERNATIONAL MEDIA 

A Cultural Immersion Project

It’s Global, it’s Cross-Disciplinary, it’s Practical!

Gonzaga University’s Masters program in Communication and Leadership Studies www.gonzaga.edu/coml announces its new Certificate in International Media. The MA Program has a tradition of global, cross-disciplinary, practical emphasis in Communication and Leadership. In this new certificate program students have both a cultural immersion experience as well as practical experiential learning. The University has joined forces with the International Institute for Media Education www.ieiMedia.com in offering this 12 graduate credit certificate. The credits can also be applied to the Masters Degree Program in Communication and Leaderships Studies at Gonzaga.
Six credits of this curriculum are taken either at the Gonzaga campus in Spokane, Washington or online in any location in the world beginning spring 2005
Online or campus-based classes:
COML 508 Theorizing Communication (3 credits)
COML 509 Social Dynamics of Communication Technologies (3 credits)
Cultural Immersion classes in Italy and Northern Ireland
COML 513 Advanced Topics in Communication: International Media and Culture (3 credits)
COML 517-518-519 Communication Practica in Speaking, Writing and Multi-Media (3 credits)
Our summer project aims are manifold:
• To immerse students in a spectrum of foreign cultures.
• To develop leadership skills in working with culturally diverse populations.
• To expose students to the practice of international journalism at the grass roots level, far from the political and economic power centers.
• To teach students the journalistic form of the “web documentary.”
• To enable students to master all the technical tools necessary to create a web site.
• To educate students in the language and customs of another culture and impart the requisite survival skills.
• To introduce students to the protocols of “professionalism” and to teach them how to work as part of a team.
• To teach students how to write gracefully and perceptively through such guided practices as journal keeping.

The participating faculty are strongly committed to an emphasis on:
• Writing
• Experiential Learning
• Internationalism and Interculturalism
• Media convergence
• Ethics and Media Leadership

Projects Planned for Summer 2008

                                                                    
• The Cagli Media Project : a multimedia summer program in a "small Italian town” involving the creation of a web documentary, a new and evolving form of journalism. Project I  May 27 – June 24, 2008  

CLOSED Project II  June 24 - July 23, 2008 

• CLOSED The Armagh Media Project, Armagh, Northern Ireland,   July 22 - August 19, 2008 

Admissions into the Certificate Program or Masters Degree.
Those students not interested in receiving the Certificate can sign up for the Cultural Immersion Project only.
Certificate Program Costs:
The International Residential experience costs for 2008 is $5,630.00 (Airfare not Included). This amount includes six credits graduate tuition, shared residence, a meal plan, technology fees and courses in one of our two centers. In addition, weekend excursions are planned for increasing cultural understanding.  Class schedules vary from sight to sight but are generally planned for Monday – Thursday allowing independent travel on weekends. 

Application Deadline is March 15, 2008.  Late applications will be accepted based on space availability.