Due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) situation, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) events will be postponed or canceled until the end of June 2020 and classes have been suspended on campus until further notice.
With a remote working approach in place, HBKU remains fully committed to ensuring educational continuity through its online learning platforms.
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Admission for Fall 2020 I now closed. For information about Fall 2021, please check back in November. We will contact all applicants once the admissions decisions are made.
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Master of Arts in Intercultural Communication
The MA in Intercultural Communication (MAICC) offered by Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) is the first degree of its kind in Qatar.
Students in this program will engage in research, education, and outreach with a view to understanding the challenges of today’s changing intercultural settings in Qatar and worldwide.
The program aims to respond to these changed societal demands, including the need for court interpreting, community interpreting, and medical interpreting – the three mediational forms of interpreting in intercultural settings and work environments that are specific to Qatar. The program will also offer courses on intercultural communication and the use of digital technologies to achieve effective intercultural communication in an inclusive and accessible society.
Additionally, research in the intercultural communication field will generate new policies and e-applications geared towards implementing the outcomes of the distinct features of the program. These program outcomes will lead to the creation of innovative applications fit for heading transformative changes in Qatar and globally.
Graduates of the program are equipped to:
- Demonstrate a broad and critical understanding of the main theoretical approaches of intercultural communication and of relevant fields in the Humanities and the Social Sciences for the creation of original research.
- Judge the relevance of research methods and tools based on their appropriateness to a given context of intercultural communication.
- Apply appropriate strategies in the solving of intercultural problems in communication settings.
- Integrate the tools and techniques for managing intercultural communication in organizations within the private, public and non-governmental sectors.
- Possess and apply the communication skills required in interlinguistic and intercultural communication settings in view of adequacy, norms, and appropriate quality and ethical standards.
- Acquire the technological literacy and tools required for postgraduate research and professional intercultural communication.