Master of Arts in Communication
The MA Communication degree is offered through the Center for Creative Change, which is redesigning its degrees based on feedback from students, employers, community practitioners, and industry thought leaders.
We will not be enrolling new students into the former MA Communication and MS Management and Leadership programs. All current students will be supported through the completion of their degree. Degree requirements for those students will not change.
We encourage you to take a look at C3 master's degrees currently accepting new students. Each of these programs recognizes the vital role of communication in shaping public dialogue, whether in organizations, local communities, or around the world.
MA Environment and Community
MA Organizational Development
MA Whole Systems Design
Recent sampling of alumni jobs:
- partners in Retro Productions LCC, a communications company specializing in video
- founding member, Involved Democracy, a progressive think tank
- strategic content manager, media company
- vice president, communications and public policy, Virginia Mason Medical Center
- farm operations director, Tierra Miguel Foundation
- owner and operator of Intore Expeditions, a community-based tour company is Rwanda
Program Summary
Making Media for Social Change
Play a vital role in shaping
public dialogue
through media communications
In the program, you learn to:
- Frame critical, social, environmental, and economic issues so they resonate with different groups to achieve transformative social change
- Nurture your creativity and collaboration skills when designing effective communication strategies
- Select the best media to communicate messages for specific audiences
- Become a better listener, advocate, and negotiator by being aware of the concerns of different stakeholders
- Design and implement communication strategies using the media tools of the day so you're better equipped to anticipate and respond to change
- Discover opportunities to leverage change
The Center for Creative Change Graduate Student Symposium features your graduate research and community-focused change project. Your work may be published on Antioch University websites and in the community as well.
Building on Antioch University’s tradition of experiential education and socially engaged citizenship, the Center for Creative Change offers degree and certificate programs so you can become a leader for
- organizational, social, and environmental sustainability
- social justice and
- social transformation
All Center for Creative Change programs are based on the understanding that creative change requires a fundamental shift in peoples’ awareness and behavior. Solutions to the complex social and environmental challenges of the 21st century require new ways of thinking. This perspective recognizes the dynamic, interdependent nature of human and environmental systems and honors diverse perspectives, traditions and ways of knowing. As a student in C3, you will learn skills, attitudes, and perspectives to be a change leader.
Curriculum
The Gathering, a two-day retreat before the first residency, begins the process of building your learning community.
Interdisciplinary Core Courses
- Communication Design
- Critical Inquiry
- Global Pluralism
- Systemic Thinking for a Changing World
- Sustainability
- Transformative Leadership and Change
- Methods for Sustainable Change
- Applications of Sustainable Change
- Communication CaucusSpecialization Courses
- Communications Media
- Communicating Across Cultures
- Participatory Communication for Social Change
- Media for Social Change
- Sample Elective Courses(choose 4)
- Documentary Film
- Legal and Ethical Issues in Communication
- Power in Media
- Integrity and Public Relations
- Citizen Journalism
- Media Fieldwork
- Specialization and elective courses from other Center degree programs
- Independent Studies
The MA in Communication is 66 quarter credits and can be completed in seven quarters.
Faculty
Click here for to read about Center faculty. For adjunct faculty who teach in the Center for Creative Change, click here.
Katherine S. Davies
DPhil
Center for Creative Change
Farouk Y. Seif
Professor Emeritus
Center for Creative Change
Barbara J. Spraker
MBA
Center for Creative Change
Britt Yamamoto
PhD
Center for Creative Change
Aimie Vallat
M.A. Communication, 2009
Prior to enrolling at Antioch, she directed a Seattle nonprofit, then raised her son and volunteered on documentary and social change projects. She says it was Antioch's multidisciplinary approach to education that appealed to her.
Jessica Brockish
M.A. Communication, 2009
An Americorps VISTA volunteer with King County Emergency Management just prior to arriving at Antioch, she recognized how a Communication degree from the Center for Creative Change would address the real world challenges of marketing for social change.
Kathleen Paul
M.A. Communication, 2007
At every turn during her Antioch education, she says she was able to return to her job as a top administrator at Virginia Mason Medical Center and apply the theories she was learning.
Mary Longhurst
M.A. Communication, 2009
Small classes and a diverse learning community with mature students were factors in her decision to choose Antioch. There were other reasons that brought her to Antioch, too.
Michael McGalliard
M.A. Communication, 2008
When he was in pursuit of a graduate program, a deciding factor was the fact that a documentary filmmaker heads Antioch's Communication program.
