Global Hospitality Management and Intercultural Communication (MSc)

Course Overview

Introduction

This programme aims to prepare you to work as a professional in the international media and communications industries with a specialism in a chosen area. The programme will give you a critical understanding of the 21st Century complex global media ecosystem, and will prepare you to work as a communications professional with high-end production skills to work across multiple platforms. You will also have an opportunity to further specialise and develop a niche in a subject area of particular interest via a choice of elective streams including Social Media and Digital Technology; Global Business and Financial Communication; Climate Action, Sustainability and STEM Communication, or Humanitarian Communication and Human Rights. 

Students from all streams will also complete a capstone module DJ6124 Final Project (30cr) and may undertake an optional internship during the third semester.

Programme streams

Stream A: Social Media and Digital Technology

This stream prepares you to thrive in networked environments and combines emerging theory around traditional and social media with skills such as production, creative coding, video and podcasting. You will develop your capacity to communicate effectively in a multimedia environment and on graduation you will be ready for roles such as social producers and executives in digital communication and marketing.

Semester one
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)               
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)     
DJ6132 Digital Sandbox (10cr)                                    

Semester two
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6137 Strategic Communication (10cr)

Choose additional 10cr from:

• DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics (10cr)
• DJ6125 Investigating Miscarriages of Justice (10cr)

Stream B: Global Business and Financial Communication

You will build expertise in communicating a wide range of issues relating to the financial world and learn to humanise and visualise sometimes complex issues to make them accessible to a general audience. On graduation you will be ready to work in roles including financial journalism/communications, and in financial markets. Successful completion of this stream includes the Bloomberg BMC certification.

Semester one           
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)   
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)       
DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics (10cr)        

Semester two 
DJ6134 Business and Financial Journalism (10cr)
DJ6137 Strategic Communication (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)

Stream C: Climate Action, Sustainability and Science Communication

This stream will help you develop your critical skills literacy and an ethical awareness to make sense of scientific and environmental issues and the expertise to communicate these issues through multiple media formats. On graduation you will be ready to work in roles including as climate advocacy and science communication officers with the UN, NGOs, climate, environmental and civil society organisations.

Semester one                                              
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)                      
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)       
TI216 Weather and Climate (5cr)                               

Semester two
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6144 Communicating Climate Action and Science (10cr)

Choose additional 15cr from:

• LW5124 Climate Justice (5cr) OR TI2108 Introduction to Paleoclimatology (5cr) OR DJ6143 ‘Media Law (5cr)
• DJ6125 Investigating Miscarriages of Justice (10cr) OR DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics (10cr) 

Stream D: Humanitarian Communication and Human Rights

In this stream you will explore the relationship between humanitarian communication and human rights and you will have an opportunity to take elective modules offered by the Irish Centre for Human Rights with guest professors such as UN experts in areas like migration and refugees. On graduation you will be ready to work as humanitarian communication officers with the civil and public service, the diplomatic corps, development organisations, the EU and the UN, NGOs, and civil society organisations. 

Semester one     
DJ6142 Global Media and Society (5cr)   
DJ6129 Social Media & Digital Production (10cr)
LW5117 International Human Rights Law (10cr)        

Semester two
DJ6139 Humanitarian Communication (10cr)
DJ6122 Researching the Media (5cr)
DJ6126 Investigating Miscarriages of Justice (10cr)

Choose additional 10 cr from:

• DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics (10cr)
• LW5123 International Peace Operations (10cr)
• DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10cr)
• TI216 Weather and Climate (5cr)
• DJ6143 ‘Media Law (5cr)
• LW5124 Climate Justice (5cr)

Key Facts

Entry Requirements

Course Outline

Students will be offered a diet of taught core and elective modules across three semesters including both academic learning and practically-focused teaching and independent learning. Students will be offered 30 credits of modules per semester in semesters one and two, including core subjects, and a choice of elective options from media and communications and related subjects. Students will choose their stream with a pre-determined module structure. In their third semester students will undertake either a final practice-based project under supervision and a work internship, or an academic dissertation also under supervision. 

These carefully planned modules and streams blend to create a programme that will allow students the opportunity to build core communication capacities such as writing, reporting, production and storytelling across multiple platforms as well as providing students with a grounding in theoretical approaches to media and communication. This will allow students to develop their critical thinking capacities as well as acquiring advanced knowledge about norms and practices in global media – and how to challenge these. The suite of modules available offers students an opportunity to engage with real-world challenges and opportunities through a range of visiting speakers and innovative project-based assessment. Students are also given the opportunity to apply and synthesise the skills and knowledge developed over the programme within the final project or individual dissertation that are developed and produced in their final semester. 

Module diet (social media and data stream)

Semester one: Taught modules (30 ECTS)

DJ6127 Global Media and Society (10 ECTS) 
DJ6129 Social Media and Digital Production (10 ECTS)

Semester two: Taught modules (30 ECTS)
DJ6131 Global Media Innovation (10 ECTS)
DJ6133 Data Journalism and Visualisation (10 ECTS)

Choose one of:
DJ6134 Business and Financial Journalism
DJ6100 Features Journalism
DJ6125 Investigating Miscarriages of Justice
DJ6132 Digital Sandbox
DJ6135 Reporting Economics and Politics 
DJ6137 Strategic Communication 

Semester 3: (30 ECTS)
DJ6123 Dissertation (30 cr)
OR
DJ6124 Final Project and workplace learning (30 cr)

Curriculum Information

Why Choose This Course?

Career Opportunities

Course Fees

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Course Overview

The MSc Global Hospitality Management and Intercultural Communication is designed for those who would like to develop and strengthen their knowledge and skills in Human Resource Management (HRM) while becoming competent in intercultural communication. The programme aims to prepare graduates by developing their understanding of different cultural contexts and viewpoints while attaining valuable business skills thus enabling graduates to work successfully in various sectors across the global business market. Modules include: Global Business and International HRM, Intercultural Communication for Business, Management of Organisational Change, and Project Management.

The programme will be offered on a full-time basis over one academic year or on a part-time basis over two academic years. The programme will consist of lectures, seminars, industry exposure, experiential learning, in-company study, computer-based simulation, guest speakers and projects in the relevant subjects.

Key Facts

Entry Requirements

Course Outline

The programme will be offered on a full-time basis over one academic year or on a part-time basis over two academic years. To be eligible for the award of the MSc in Global Hospitality Management and Intercultural Communication, candidates must successfully complete modules to a total of 90 ECTS. A candidate who has passed all modules other than Semester 3 within a period of two years from commencement of the programme shall be eligible for the award of a Postgraduate Diploma in Hospitality and Business.

Full-time 

Semester 1

• Global Business and International HRM
• Information Technology for Hospitality
• Performance and Revenue Management
• Business Analytics Fundamentals

Semester 2

• Hotel Asset Management
• Intercultural Communication for Business
• Project Management
• Strategy and Innovation for Hospitality 

Semester 3—there are two options available. Both options focus on: Global Hospitality Management & Intercultural Communication.

• Option 1: Research Thesis 

• Option 2: Internship

Part-time

Year 1:

Semester 1

• Performance and Revenue Management
• Business Analytics Fundamentals

Semester 2

• Intercultural Business Communication
• Hotel Asset Management

Year 2:

Semester 3

• Global Business and International HRM
• Information Technology for Business

Semester 4

• Project Management
• Strategy and Innovation for Hospitality

Semester 5—there are two options available. Both options focus on: Global Hospitality Management & Intercultural Communication.

• Option 1: Research Thesis

• Option 2: Internship

Why Choose This Course?

Career Opportunities

Course Fees

Fees: EU

Fees: Tuition

Fees: Student levy

Fees: Non EU

Find out More

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