Newcastle University

Cross-Cultural Communication & International Relations, MA

Course Code: 4054
Duration: Full-time 12 months Part-time 24 months

This programme is specially designed, with a flexible, user-friendly structure, for students who wish to acquire knowledge, understanding, and skills necessary to proceed to careers in an international organisation, who would like to enhance their language and communication skills for professional communication in cross-cultural contexts.

Main features of the programme

• Enhancing international employability
• Raising cross-cultural awareness
• Combination of knowledge-based and skill-oriented training
• Focus on communication: written/ oral /interpersonal
• Jointly taught by staff from the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences and School of Geography, Politics and Sociology

Programme structure

All candidates must complete 180 credits. This includes:

Compulsory modules (80 credits)

• Research Portfolio (60 credits)
• Language and Cross Cultural Communication (20 credits)

Optional modules - Language and Communication (40 credits)

• Cross Cultural Cognition and Bilingualism (20 credits)
• Culture and Intercultural Communication in English Language Education (20 credits)
• International Business Talk (20 credits)
• Introduction to Psycholinguistics (20 credits)
• Professional Communication Skills (20 credits)
• Social Psychology of Communication (20 credits)
• Sociolinguistics (20 credits)
• English in the world: Global and Cross-Cultural Issues surrounding English as a Lingua Franca (20 credits)
• Culture, Interculturality and Identity (20 credits)

Optional modules - Politics (60 credits)

• Integration in Europe (20 credits)
• Theories and theorists of International Political Economy (20 credits)
• International Relations theory (20 credits)
• Public Policy in the European Union (20 credits)
• Theories and Approaches in Politics (20 credits)
• The state in the International Political Economy (20 credits)
• Workshop in American foreign policy making (20 credits)
• The politics of Global change (20 credits)
• Democracy in Divided Societies: Ethnicity, Power sharing and International Mediation (20 credits)
• The European Union as an International Actor (20 credits)

Please note that modules offered and module content is subject to change

Fees and funding

For more information on fees, funding and how to apply for this programme Cross-Cultural Communication & International Relations MA

Funding may also be available from the School of Education, Communication and Langauge Sciences.

For any other queries, please contact the programme secretary
Christine Bell
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 222 8830
E-mail: ccc@ncl.ac.uk

Selection for the programme

We don't usually interview applicants. However, in some specific cases we may contact you and request an interview. Work experience is desirable, but not essential