About the MSc programme
The MSc Strategic Communications moves beyond a purely vocational approach to the making of messages to offer you an approach to strategic communication that reflects: the changing means of communication, image making and storytelling in the organisational environment today; the expanding strategic ends of selling not only products and ideas/ideals but also places and experiences in an increasingly mediated and networked world, especially through branding; and the increasingly complex consequences for all types of organisation of the interaction of these changes.
The programme will focus on the study of organisations as communicators across the governmental, non-governmental and corporate sectors, especially in the context of change associated with digitalisation and globalisation. In particular, it will examine the ways organisations communicate strategically, both internally and externally; and how communication contributes to shaping discourses and practices associated with leadership within organisations and across them.
It will also consider the role of digital technologies, and the links between discourse and power, and how they relate to the way public discourse and symbolic resources are unevenly distributed and controlled, privileging certain institutions and ideologies.
Programme details
You can find the most up-to-do-date list of courses for MSc Strategic Communications in the Programme Regulations section of the current School Calendar.
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Graduate destinations
On graduating, our students enter a variety of careers in the UK and abroad, including broadcasting, journalism, advertising, new media industries, political marketing, market research, regulation and policy, media management and research in both public and private sectors. Contact lse.ac.uk/media@lse/alumni for further information.