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programme closely to the UN SDGs and our capacity
to address the complexity of these challenges as
well as to create and measure our impact on them.
As we future proof of our programme, we recognize
that the global is no longer about a mix of multiple
2021 Students Hiking with Prof. Rolien Hoyng locals, but instead, a collective interweaving of
our simultaneously local and global existence.
20 years since its inception, the Master of Arts in The new avatar of the programme is going to be
Global Communication has equipped, educated, experimental in its pedagogy, deeply structured by
and engaged our students with these evolving the AI revolution, but still focusing on the capacity
transformations at a global scale. The programme to address, critique, and implement interventions
has evolved with time, putting cutting edge to champion the SDGs. Another specialization is
research, stakeholder facing education, and going to work closely with multiple stakeholders,
opportunities for global engagements through showing the need and power of communication
tours, field trips, and learning for a growing cohort research and practice to monitor, evaluate, and
of students. Poised as a landing site where the two create impact for collective future building.
Internets meet, and different innovations can be
nurtured and fostered, the programme has lived The idea of the global – geographically,
up to the legacy of the School of Journalism and technologically, socially, economically, and
Communication, where we train future change politically – is splintering in the current world order.
makers, who use their knowledge to repair and The emergence of policy-crises often presents the
transform the world. global as both a contested and an empty category
when faced with the challenges of alienation. It
Rethinking the Idea of Global becomes critical that our programme continues
In the next iteration of the programme, we are evolving, adapting, and creating opportunities
aware that we will have to reconsider the idea for our students and communities to respond to
of the “global” all over again. In my term as the the state of the world, with joyful hope, without
Programme Director, I am hoping to align the diminishing the complexity and the urgency of
these challenges. We hope to find ways by which
we empower future scholars and practitioners to
find hopeful ways of organizing, building cohesive
communities, and collective action for futures
worth fighting for.

2023 Graduates of MA in Global Communication