Experience. When searching for job, this is the biggest asset needed to secure the position of your dreams. Whether it be leaving America and getting a job in Ireland, or anywhere in the world, the program will allow you to be a versatile employee with a variety of skillsets. A Master's program like Global Media and Communications (GMC) at National University of Ireland, Galway will leave you prepared for any job in communications. The classes offered are so beneficial to learning new skills or freshening up on skills you may already know for the work force.
The skills learned through this program will be described below. As part of this project, I designed a survey and I polled students on what they think of the program, and below are what people suggested be topics that promote the GMC classes:
This module was something required from us as students in the first semester. It was made up of a video class, podcasting class, social media class and digital production class. We learned skills in programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, InDesign and After Effects. Adding these skills will benefit any resume/CV in communications and set you apart from other people in the professional world.
Each section of the module is designed to create a different project for the final. We created newspaper spreads, learned how to edit and write articles, produced and recorded our own podcasts and video and came up with an entire social campaign with social media posts to promote the content.
There was the option to work in teams for some of the projects — how you work in teams can be very important to an employer, and therefore choosing the option when given it is a great way to learn how to work with other individuals on a group project.
The module also requires you to become Hootsuite Certified, which is a direct certificate to add to your resume. An additional cost that this module may require is the purchasing of your own Adobe Creative Cloud subscription. For a student subscription, it is $20 a month. The computers in the News Room have all of the programs, however, if you would like to work on the project at home, it might be of benefit to have Adobe at your fingertips.
When surveying past students, they said this module should be promoted more for the program, as it is where they learned most of the skills to continue on with the module and final project.
Does coding scare you? Leave this module with the basics of HTML and Java Script coding and have confidence to put it on your resume or CV to impress your future employers. There is a whole elective you could take that teaches you how to code and the basics of where to start.
Knowing HTML or JavaScript is something that employers have said will help an applicant stand out among undergraduate students. This is a new module offered and everyone that took it got to create their own coding project.
The projects ranged from someone making a virtual closet and avatar to put the clothes on, to an abstract self-interpretation of a famous painting that moved. It was a way to be creative and practice new skills in a way that would be helpful to the student.
Colors, shapes and simple math was the foundation for the module, and it comes in handy post-grad by being able to bring those skills out for simple website design.
It is a great module that allows for creativity and problem solving in a format undergraduate classes often don't offer for communications students.
Want to be a problem solver? Ask a lot of questions? Global Media Innovation is the module for you.
This module is unique but another class that had fantastic feedback from our Master's program students.
It involves a lot of group work and listening. Each group picks a problem and then asks others about that problem and then they learn to listen to what the people interviewed are truly saying.
It is a module all about not rushing to conclusions and really learning how to ask the right questions and hear others on their thoughts.
There is a lot of brainstorming and class mapping out the results, but the outcomes were strong projects that made our instructors very proud.
It is a module that is a great example for a response to an interview question about a challenge or working in teams, and it allows for students to bring the skills they learned right into the workplace.
Some of the examples of work created for GMC classes.