Our Master of Arts in Communication program offers a diverse, flexible curriculum that prepares students to lead and/or advocate for others in multiple career and academic fields.

You take 33 credits of flexible curriculum preparing to lead and/or advocate for others where you are needed. Learn to understand theoretical approaches in the field of communication, develop research skills, create and critique interpersonal and media messages, and explore ethical responsibility. The program prepares you for professional positions in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations or for continued study in a Ph.D. program.

Graduate Coordinator: Dr. Linsay M. Cramer
Brittain Hall 305 | 843-349-4151 | lcramer@coastal.edu

Starting in August 2023, you can join the new Journalism & Sports Media major. Learn the knowledge, skills, and ethics needed to report the news or cover sports for social media, websites, print, radio, and television. You can also do play-by-play for Coastal Carolina athletics teams!

• With this major, you can minor in Communication or Health Communication with us or choose from any other minor from across campus.
• If you are in the Communication major's Interactive Journalism concentration below, you can easily switch to this new program.

Depending on your concentration in this major, you can minor in Journalism or Health Communication with us or choose from any other minor from across campus.

Communication Studies relates to persuasion, culture, gender, families, activism, rhetoric, organizations/groups, and many other areas.

• Join this concentration if you are interested in how people communicate with one another, one-to-one, in groups, to large audiences, etc.

Health Communication teaches about health and popular media, relationships, and strategic campaigns.

• Join this concentration to learn about interacting with doctors, body image, helping others improve, and more related to health.

Interactive Journalism provides you the knowledge, skills, and ethics for news and/or sports journalism for social media, websites, print, WCCU radio, and television.

• Join this concentration if you want to pursue broadcasting, commentary, or journalism.

Public Relations / Integrated Communication builds your knowledge and practice in public relations, advertising, persuasion, and brand strategy.

• Join this concentration to understand our relationships with organizations, being a spokesperson or storyteller, and/or how we are influenced by strategic media. You can also work in our Teal Nation student-run public relations firm.

Sports Communication develops your ability to analyze and critique media messages, identities, and cultures related to sport.

• Join this concentration to examine how sport influences our culture and identities.

Communication examines communication as it relates to public speaking, culture, gender, families, activism, rhetoric, semiotics, and organizations/groups.

• Journalism & Sports Media majors can choose this minor.

Health Communication teaches you about health as it relates to popular media, relationships, and strategic campaigns.

• Communication and Journalism & Sports Media majors can choose this minor, unless in Health Communication concentration.

Journalism introduces you to the foundations of journalism so you become more news and media literate. You can also get introduced to WCCU Radio, television, and print news.

• Communication majors can choose this minor, unless in Interactive Journalism concentration.

Film & Production Studies combines film analysis and critique with practical aspects of directing, editing, and making of films and videos. Housed in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

• Communication and Journalism & Sports Media majors can choose this minor.

Social Media (starting in August 2023) integrates the practice and study of social media, both how to create and share content and why. Housed in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies.

• Communication and Journalism & Sports Media majors can choose this minor.