11 Journalism, Media, and Mass Communication Masters Degree Programs in Argentina

The Mente Argentina Master’s Program in Journalism is designed for students from all over the world who not only want to get a Master’s in Journalism but also for those who seek an extraordinary learning experience in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The Master in Cinema of South America aims to provide interdisciplinary training, broadening and deepening the theoretical, artistic, and technological development, research, and advancement of knowledge around the processes and results of film production in the subcontinent South American. The Master in Cinema of South America includes the completion of at least one academic research project and one audiovisual production project, each of them under the supervision of a director/tutor; Both works will show the conceptual, methodological, and artistic management, in accordance with the current levels of advancement of the different disciplines included in the degree. Those who complete the Master in South American Film will access the academic title of “Master in South American Film”.

The Master in Interculturality and Communication arises directly linked to the growing relevance that intercultural processes have acquired in our societies. The intercultural problem manifests itself through multiple intersections and articulations between global and local cultures. In Latin American societies these cultural processes acquire a high degree of complexity and have their own characteristics. This is exacerbated in the context of the relevance of communication processes that acquire a new dimension from the transformations generated by new technologies and the deepening of power disputes in the framework of the mass media. Consequently, a perspective that critically articulates both problems from a Latin American perspective appears necessary.

Studying a postgraduate degree in journalism, therefore, becomes a challenge that can only be faced from the convergence of academic knowledge based on theory and practical competence based on experience. All this oriented to the exercise of the profession with solvency both in graphics or radio, television, and digital. From that conviction, the Master's in Journalism aims to train journalists better prepared to see and foresee a changing world, with a critical perspective and without dogmatism.

The Corporate and Institutional Communication Specialist is a professional who has tools for the strategic management of communication in organizations, institutions, and companies. The theoretical and practical training allows communication professionals to acquire institutional and technological tools.

The long tradition of the chronicle and its development in our days has shown that it is a genre that has the tools to narrate and that allows the reconstruction of various conflictive, contradictory realities, full of nuances, and multiple meanings of the contemporary. For this, it is necessary to develop a specific academic field, which is the one proposed by this master's degree in Narrative Journalism. To well-done journalism that appeals to accurate and rigorous information and context, the new narrative journalism adds the conceptual depth to achieve a direct, empathetic arrival and shocking readers saturated by the overabundance of information they receive not only through the traditional media but also through social networks and the multiple channels of digital circulation. In this historical framework, it is necessary, on the one hand, to rediscover the chronicle through a conscious reading of its tradition, as did academics such as Ángel Rama, Julio Ramos, Susana Rotker, or María Moreno, who took the chronicle out of the drawer of minor and bastard genres, displaced by their status as "journalistic" from the canonical readings of the 19th and 20th centuries. And, at the same time, critically revisit the realistic literature - not only the North American one - to account for those narrative fabrics that left a record of what the world that its authors lived was like and how it is possible to unfold the complexity of the social. Professionals who study this master's degree will be able to learn from the long tradition of chronicles to de-fossilize formats, formulas and generate stories that avoid common places and can account for the universal from specific stories. Through the curriculum that will provide different types of technical and conceptual tools - from social theory to literature - they will be able to cross, in a constant round trip, the invisible borders that separate journalism from multiple knowledge. Expanding globalization, crisis, conflicts, and social contradictions, in a context of growing inequality, the emergence of new demands and claims for new rights, social subjects, and collective organizations that renew political agendas,

The master's degree lasts one year. It consists of a group of subjects and workshops, of professional practices in the Editorial Office of La Nación and concludes with the presentation of a thesis. The students study three days a week in the Aula-Redacción de LA NACION in Vicente López. There they work in the different fields of journalist training related to the writing, editing, and publication of the content of different formats and genres, as well as the production of journalistic narratives designed for circulation in traditional spaces, new distribution platforms, and social networks.

The problem of reading and writing is recognized in academic areas as a priority issue on which it is urgent to provide answers, not only within the field of Language Sciences but in the broad spectrum of education at all levels and areas disciplinary. Although it is true that in recent years the research carried out and the postgraduate courses implemented in universities in the country and in Latin America allowed us to better understand the problem and delve into the multiple factors that intervene in it, it continues to be essential that it be assumed by the members of the educational community and effective decisions are made in this regard. The priority of the topic of reading comprehension and writing are linked above all with the acquisition of learning and the production of knowledge, consequently, it is related to the quality and equity of education. On the other hand, it transcends the strictly educational level and is projected into the areas of work and the socio-cultural development of the subjects within a community.

The Master in Literature and Politics, whose backbone is based on the first of the terms that nominate it, is a career that proposes the construction of a systematic space for debate, reflection, updating, research, and production around literature and its links with various political contexts.

develop technological knowledge, completing and integrating undergraduate training, facilitating the understanding of telecommunications networks of all kinds, covering aspects of project planning and management, adequate links to the geographies of the region, and communications in general adapted to the needs of companies, factories, and citizens in general. Encourage management capacity through understanding the characteristics of the organization (administration plus government) of the company and the technology associated with it.

To train documentary makers with competence in the areas of Production, Script, Direction, and Post-production of documentary films; provide a theoretical framework that supports the documentary genre; generate a space that promotes documentary production; develop an interdisciplinary vision of the making of Documentary Cinema. To take the Master's degree, it is not a requirement to have prior audiovisual knowledge. In that case, the University will offer the necessary technical training free of charge.