Marketable Skills Report

Fine Arts & Communication

Journalism & Mass Comm

Master of Arts (M.A.) Major in Mass Communication

Marketable Skills:

• Ability to synthesize and disseminate complex information and apply it to new contexts
• Ability to find solutions to problems and justify them
• Ability to identify goals/tasks and create a realistic timeline for completion
• Ability to present before groups
• Ability to think and reason ethically
• conduct research and evaluate information by methods appropriate to the communications professions in which they work;
• critically evaluate their own work and that of others for accuracy and fairness, clarity, appropriate style and grammatical correctness;
• demonstrate culturally proficient communication that empowers those traditionally disenfranchised in society, especially as grounded in race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation and ability, domestically and globally, across communication
• effectively and correctly apply basic numerical and statistical concepts
• present images and information effectively and creatively, using appropriate tools and technologies
• understand and apply the principles and laws of freedom of speech and press, as well as receive instruction in and understand the range of systems of freedom of expression
• write correctly and clearly in forms and styles appropriate for the communications professions, audiences and purposes they serve;