大众传播艺术硕士课程位于大众传播学院（SMC）内，强调对大众媒体及其新闻和战略传播实践，媒体内容及其对公众的影响的批判性思考。该计划提供了一个媒体研究选项，使学生能够分析和开展大众传播方面的学术研究，以及如何向学术和非学者观众撰写和展示这种研究的结果;该程序还提供了一个专业大众传媒选项为学生提供有关多平台新闻或战略传播/公共关系的高级专业培训。学生将撰写硕士学位论文或创建专业项目作为总结经验。该计划面向拥有大众传播专业本科或辅修专业的新闻工作者，在职新闻工作者以及没有大众传播背景的新闻工作者。该计划的大多
The Master of Arts in Mass Communication program is located within the School of Mass Communication (SMC) and emphasizes critical thinking about mass media and its journalistic and strategic communication practices, media content and its effects on the public. The program offers a Media Research option that prepares students to analyze and conduct scholarly research in mass communication, and how to write and present the results of such research to both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences.The program also offers a Professional Mass Media option that provides students with advanced professional training in Multiplatform Journalism or Strategic Communication/Public Relations. Students will either write a Master's Thesis or create a Professional Project as capstone experience.The program is open to students with undergraduate majors or minors in Mass Communication, to working journalists, and to those without Mass Communication backgrounds. Most of the program's graduate courses are offered during the evening and in the early morning for the convenience of the working professional. Generally, these courses meet once a week for approximately three hours.