Introduction

The master's degree offers you:

• an introduction to the theories and methods of information and communication sciences
• a specialisation in one of the major fields of information and communication
• a course that integrates your knowledge and your questions in the field of communication;
• an adapted and original pedagogical approach.

Your profile

You

• are a graduate of a university and wish to acquire additional training;
• want to reorient your career or obtain a university degree in order to progress in your company;
• want to acquire expertise and professional skills in one of the major fields of communication.

Your future job

Our graduates find employment in: journalism (print, radio, TV, multimedia); social advertising, popular science, prevention, media education, media training; digital media design and production; media analysis, research and teaching; animation and cultural mediation; the cultural and audiovisual sector; associations working in the cultural and intercultural field, etc.

Your programme

The programme of the Master 60 in Information and Communication consists of 60 credits distributed as follows: 

- a core curriculum consisting of :

• a dissertation and, for students who do not hold a Master's degree, a seminar to accompany the dissertation
• a law course (5 credits) 
• depending on the student's profile, 5 or 10 credits of activities chosen from a proposed list.

- an option (30 credits) from among :

• Media education ;
• Culture ;
• Ecole de journalisme de Louvain;
• Research in Information and Communication Sciences.
• The Master 60 programme in Information and Communication is primarily aimed at students with a university master's degree and offers specialisation in four areas of communication.

The "Ecole de journalisme de Louvain" option aims to prepare students to work in the news media both by developing the skills of writing and producing written, audio, audiovisual and multimodal journalistic productions, and by enabling students to understand the socio-economic and political contexts affecting the news business.

The "Media Education" option trains students in the skills necessary for this varied professional field (teaching, media education associations, the public sector in particular). The courses allow students to understand the challenges of media education, but also to develop the skills to create training sequences or devices with educational effects.

The "Culture" option constitutes an original approach to media and popular culture. Students will specialise in the study of media and cultural content, while being able to situate these creations in the contexts of production and reception. Gender, diversity and interculturality issues as well as narratological analyses are central to this option.

The "Research in Information and Communication Sciences" option is aimed primarily at post-master's students who wish to complete their training in the field of research in information and communication sciences with a view to accessing the 3rd cycle in information and communication.