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Some places still available for distance learning MA courses in Communications

I am told by my colleagues at Sheffield Hallam University that there are a few places still available for the distance learning MA programme in Professional Communications for the autumn session which begins in September.
The programme offers four courses of study, each with a slightly different emphasis, and all with some shared modules:
Corporate Communication, focusing on communication within organisations, including corporate image, ethics and public relations, looking at both theoretical and practical aspects of the communications process;
E-Communication designed to give you a thorough understanding of human and digital communication, and the growing importance of the web and other contemporary technologies as tools of corporate communication;
Professional Communication a flexible award in terms of the option modules combining theory and practice, and including document design, persuasive communication and communication strategy;
Technical Communication focusing on the means and methods of disseminating technical information and instruction to varied audiences, looking at the role of the technical communicator in a wide variety of industrial and corporate contexts.

I am an Associate Lecturer for the Technical Communications MA course, as well as a graduate of the course myself. I’d be very happy to answer any questions about the course.

Distance Learning at SHU mentioned in "The Independent"

Last Thursday’s (10th July 2008) “Independent” newspaper carried an article about the impact of distance-learning postgraduate courses, Distance learning is helping workers’ careers – and their pockets, too. The article spotlights the growing popularity of distance-learning MA courses for people trying to get ahead in the workplace, where an undergraduate degree is often no longer enough.

One of the students interviewed in the article is a graduate of the Corporate Communications MA course at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU). The student said she was “more confident knowing the theory that underpins what I’m doing every day”, which is a key reason for undertaking academic study related to one’s professional life. Corporate Communications is one of the four streams in the MA Programme in Professional Communication at SHU. The others are e-Communication, Professional Communication, and Technical Communication. I am of course, an interested party – as I may have mentioned before in this blog, I am an Associate Lecturer for the Technical Communications course.

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