Master's Degree Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication

This MA programme is available only for those students who transfer from Vaasa to Jyväskylä.

The Master’s Degree Programme in Intercultural Management and Communication (IMCo) is your key to global understanding. This full time two-year programme combines cultural and communication studies with management studies. Its aim is to educate professionals who will work in networked societies and who will develop and apply organizational knowledge with expertise in communication in multicultural contexts. The programme offers you the opportunity to develop into a specialist in managing diversity and communication processes in intercultural settings. With students coming from all over the world, you will live and study in a genuinely multilingual and multicultural environment. You will be taught by international teachers who are experts in their fields and who use innovative teaching methods which enhance community building and take into account the individuality of each learner.

You will learn:
- How to manage intercultural and multilingual communication in multicultural environments.
- The ways in which multiculturalism structures societies.
- The principles of how cultures function and how cultural identities are constructed.
- To approach culture and multiculturalism from the perspective of philosophy and ethics.
- Understand the mechanisms of communication and the role of digital media in a networked society
- To navigate confidently and smoothly in a multicultural, multilingual world.

The studies are divided into two basic modules:
- Contemporary Culture, Cultures and Communication
- Intercultural Management

With a Master's degree from the programme, you will be a specialist in intercultural communication and qualified for working in both public and private organisations, for example as an international coordinator, project manager, human resources manager, information officer, public relations specialist, researcher or educator.