Page 2 of 4, 57 Part time Master Programs in Journalism and Mass Communication in USA for 2024

Focus your passion for positive social change in communication techniques that engage and mobilize audiences to action. The Advocacy and Social Impact concentration within American University's online MA in Strategic Communication emphasis strategies and tactics to create change at the individual, community, and public policy levels.

American University's online Master's in Strategic Communications program teaches you to plan strategic campaigns, craft persuasive messages, and effectively target different audiences.

The New Media Journalism master of arts degree program teaches students how to apply traditional journalistic methods to interactive media, with a focus on how current technologies can enhance both narrative structure and visual storytelling. Coursework ranges from concepts used in digital newsroom management and multimedia reporting to legal and ethical aspects of the digital domain.

The M.F.A. in Motion Pictures guides students to advance their technical proficiency and critical thinking while learning innovative narrative skills. Students are encouraged to concentrate on more than one area of specialization: production, producing, and/or screenwriting.

Plan strategic campaigns, craft persuasive messages and effectively target different audiences with American University's online Master of Arts in Strategic Communication.

Develop your skills in electoral politics and public diplomacy in local, national, and international politics, advocacy, and public affairs with Emerson’s Political Communication (MA). Learn to create and execute political, social advocacy, and public diplomacy campaigns. Critically analyze key debates and issues of public and political communication, the communication essentials needed to run a campaign, and more.

Emerson’s Strategic Marketing Communication MA (SMC) prepares you for a career in one of the nation’s fastest-growing fields, marketing, and communications. Our program is flexible and allows you to choose between three marketing focuses to build your Master's program around your career goals. Our SMC program prepares you for a diverse range of careers in marketing and communications on both the agency side and the client side, giving you the unique opportunity to apply your marketing skills to any industry including technology, healthcare, entertainment, finance, education, and more.

Whether you want to shape the prose of fresh voices as an editor, represent writers as a literary agent, or work with exciting online publications and new media formats, Emerson’s Publishing and Writing MA will help you succeed in the ever-vital, ever-changing field of publishing. You’ll receive a comprehensive overview of the publishing industry with the flexibility to take classes in a variety of areas, including book, magazine, and digital publishing, customizing your program to meet your interests.

Romance. Fantasy. Science fiction. Horror. Mystery. Thrillers. Young adult. Which is the right genre for your story? Become a genre fiction author with our online Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing MFA. Our flexible graduate program allows you to work on your writing from anywhere in the world, with online workshops, literature seminars, and publishing courses that fit your schedule. Become a better writer, explore the history of your genre, and learn how to take the first steps toward publishing. Emerson’s MFA in Popular Fiction Writing and Publishing is one of the first online programs of its kind to prepare you to write professional-level stories and novels. We welcome writers creating stories in the genres of fantasy, science fiction, romance, horror, mystery, thrillers, young adult— and any exciting combination thereof. Our program is designed to develop your writing skills and teach you the history of different genres. You will learn the preliminary steps to publishing your work, either through the traditional editor/publisher model or through the popular self-publishing models.

Emerson's Journalism and Media Innovation Masters program is fully online, with courses offered in an asynchronous format. Our 32-credit program is designed for students pursuing multidisciplinary careers in journalism, independent or freelance journalism, multimedia writing, copywriting, media content creation, and communications. Students are matched with a professional mentor during their program to discuss career goals and gain a deeper understanding of how their coursework applies to real-world situations.

Whether you want to explore fiction film, documentary, experimental media, installation art, or interactive media, our Film and Media Art (MFA) will give you the expertise you need. Work with image and sound to entertain, inform, persuade, and challenge, using both traditional and emergent media forms. Develop an understanding of the disciplines of 16mm and digital film and audio, and interactive media production, bringing this understanding to bear on traditional and convergent media works. Our program offers three distinct entry points depending on your prior experience and varies in length from 2-3 years, allowing students with a variety of life experiences and diverse academic backgrounds to inspire each other’s artistic development. Once you are admitted to the program, we work with you to create a custom curriculum based on your professional and educational goals.

Emerson’s online Media Design (MA) blends art, technology, and community-based research to address social justice issues ranging from climate change and public health to voting rights, racial injustice, and food insecurity—or anything you’re passionate about changing in your local or global community. Housed in our renowned Engagement Lab, our research-based design lab, the Media Design program is fully online and designed for artists looking to drive civic change through different forms of media and technology such as video games, apps, film, websites, and more.

A focus on the humanities and social sciences combined with marketing, information technology, digital publishing, or discipline of your choosing, provides a solid framework to help you understand the evolving communication landscape.

Deepen your understanding of the importance of graphic communication and immerse yourself in the technologies that are changing the industry.

Acquire the conceptual, academic, and technical skills needed to succeed as an artist in the field of photography and related media.