The course entitled "Research Methods" aims to introduce students to the stages of developing research work, in its epistemological / ethical aspect and in its practical dimension. This course emphasizes the design, writing and presentation of research work through the appropriation of quantitative and qualitative techniques, necessary for its realization in a scientific manner. The course offers a methodological kit: a selection of tools, resources as well as written exercises (dissertations, detailed plan, essays, reading notes, summary notes, etc.) and oral exercises (presentations, debates, etc.) which objective would be to help students prepare for their multidisciplinary work and consolidate their methodological learning.

The course aims at introducing the students to the different type of media (text, images, sound, video, etc.) and the technology tools and formats used for manipulation and storage. It will highlight the difference between analog and digital formats, hardware and software, different type of connectivity and I/O devices. Then, every media is studied separately.

Trying to stop the creative stagnation of students, this course, as its name indicates it tries to integrate a polyvalent and flexible platform which answers to the problematic which come up throughout the semester, going through the technological evolution and its impact on the notion of creativity within advertising and graphics. This combination within all its parameters, presents itself under the shape of a workshop where « critical thinking » plays and important role of the motor within communication.

The course contains a general over-view of the historical development of political thought and a historiographical survey of the perception and usage of the concept of ideology. It offers to the students to be more familiar with the typology of the political ideologies, their differences and their trends, such as: communism, socialism, anarchism, liberalism, capitalism, conservatism, libertarianism, fascism, Nazism, nationalism, ecologism, feminism… On another hand, students will apply these theories in order to understand the process of State-building and social organization in the modern period.

This course grounds the process of appreciating the 7 arts from a connoisseur’s point of view. The focus will be mainly on paintings theatre/cinema and music. The timeline covered by the course would be ‘the modern era’, so the major movements from 1920 till 1970. We will also discuss and debate contemporary art (performance, conceptual art, digital art, animation, mapping etc..) The fundamental pillars of the course would be: Different types of methods of analysis (of a Painting/Theatre play/film/music etc...), Synoptic approach/comparative analysis and correspondences between arts, The classification of art through history, Sensibilization to the technical vocabulary.

The aim of this course is to explore the role and scope of mediation today in private life - between individuals, within the family - and in public life - in companies, and in intra- and inter-state relations. The need for mediation is becoming increasingly apparent as conflicts and individual and social tensions multiply. Between realities and aspirations, philosophical theory explains and clarifies some of the major concepts at the heart of the mediation process, such as the person, power, communication, values and so on. In this way, it helps to advance the practice, confirming it as a form of philosophical reflection. To what extent does mediation, as a theoretical-practical instrument, succeed in weaving, knotting and/or re-establishing links between the individual and himself, between the individual and others, between members of a city, between states, at a time when globalization is imposing its lofty institutions of collective identification, paradoxically generating withdrawal, mistrust of others, and the proliferation of fundamentalism?

As Shakespeare wisely surmised, the past is simply the prologue of the present. The times we live in were crafted and forged by the traumatic and revolutionary events of the past century. It stood as an era when great empires fell, nationalist fervor arose, and our present international system came to fruition.

We are faced with many challenges in the twenty-first century. Despite progress being made in global issues, there is still much work more to be done. This course offer an in-depth study into one of the problems confronting the world in our contemporary times. Rotating topics will include peace and security, climate change, populist politics, poverty and social inequality, and others. The class will provide students an opportunity to develop and sharpen their research skills and practical experience in writing case studies.

Based on the conviction that self-awareness would allow the construction of a coherent and robust life project (personal and / or professional), this course aims, through psychology and various theories of development, to familiarize students with the mechanisms specific to each individual, allowing them to meet a desired future. Moreover, the course will highlight the way of accepting these different mechanisms as components, not only of a personal "algorithm", but even more, of a base of potentialities to be implemented for the benefit of an individuality to be modeled and concretized in order to better understand the intrapersonal and the interpersonal and to better live in society and within the world.

This course, intended for students following different circuits in human sciences (social sciences, psychology, literature, history, etc.) is divided into three parts: the first part deals with culture, of its constituent elements, of the difficulty in circumscribing it, of its relationship to identity and of transculturality. The second part concerns myths, their structure, their functions, their importance, their topicality. The third part focuses on the Sacred as founding phenomena of any culture and its multiple cultural and social expressions. The objective of the course is to raise the awareness of the student to the universality of the Sacred and myths as inscribed in the history and the life of all the societies and constitutive of the immemorial cultural fund of humanity and to make them discover their countless expressions in behavior, language, arts and letters. In addition to reading authors’ texts (Herskovits, Jung, Eliade, Girard, Lévi-Strauss, Otto…) and the analysis of myths or travelers’ stories, work can be conducted on audiovisual documents. As for the assignments, written or through oral exposition, that they will present, students are encouraged to develop themes derived from the issues addressed during the course.

This course covers, in detail, aspects of the Lebanese political system, the various political powers and their ways of operating, including, the Office of the President, Cabinet, Parliament, and judicial practices. This course also explains the community structure in Lebanon. It also introduces students to the Lebanese Constitution and its evolution since1926.

This course aims to develop the students’ language skills by giving a detailed analysis of Arabic syntax based on a dynamic approach using practical texts and exercises. This course also broadens the students’ knowledge of oral and written Arabic through exploration and analysis, by consolidating their Arabic grammar skills and introducing them to the linguistic studies or references needed for writing.

This course presents principles and key tools to develop appropriate and effective communication in one-to-one and small group communication settings. The content focuses on analyzing and assessing communication skills to create and sustain effective communication in personal and professional relationships. Learners will explore various dimensions of verbal and nonverbal communication in human interaction. They will have the opportunity to learn and practice communication skills, examine and research the functions of verbal and nonverbal means of communication while discovering how different nonverbal cues affect human communication. Besides, students will be able to utilize the power of persuasion, with different types of people and in multicultural contexts.

The course introduces the major communication theories with their founding authors. These theories can be applied to interpersonal, group, organizational, intercultural, and mass communication contexts. They can be deployed to engage with real communication problems. The course also seeks to provide students with the key concepts of each theory for a better understanding of the communication process. Students will be able to apply them to everyday life situations, events, and/or communication artifacts.

The objective of this course is to tackle technical processes while making a TV report (camera operating, visual language, sound recording, editing, etc.)

This course tackles Media and Communication Law, reviewing different official Lebanese texts. It also poses and analyzes ethical issues in journalism, alongside other media ethical codes.

This course examines the media coverage of current events in the Arab region and around the globe. Students will be discussing and analyzing the reflected news and current events in the light of the roles of news media as an “indicator” and a “propagator” of the state of affairs. Subjects will be analyzed based on a comparative approach between different media types based on the historical context. Additionally, the course explores the backgrounds of media terminology (historical and ideological), helps students to prepare a relevant documentation on a subject for media coverage (focus on historical background to produce a neutral, objective, and professional press article) and provides many opportunities to develop critical thinking and analysis through the latest breaking news. By the end of the course, students will become informed and engaged citizens, able to distinguish between “Literacy through news” (informative texts), and news literacy (informative texts).

With the Internet expansion, the world witnessed “new types of behavior” manifested through interactions and relationships between individuals (reading, interpreting data, etc.). Therefore, within a hyper-connected society, we become “creators” of our own data, but also readers of others’. Hence, we speak of "Data Journalism". This course discusses the notion of « information ecosystem» as a natural extension of "information system" (a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information). Facing these compact, diversified, ramified and heterogeneous data on communication platforms, qualitative and quantitative analyses become a must, to study behaviors on the Web forming altogether the “Big Data”.

The aim of this course is to help students learn the basics of multimedia journalism. The course defines the characteristics of multimedia journalism including web journalism; blogging and social media, to enable the students to write and edit contents for digital media. The lessons give a general overview of the Web with all its related terms and features. Students will then be introduced to multimedia elements (static and dynamic) including Storytelling with Infographics, then a general overview on HTML (code structure, tags, creating, and editing), which will help them in the world of blogging and e-journalism. Tips and techniques will also be thought to increase site popularity and statistics (search engine optimization, Advertising programs, number of visitors, visitor preferences, referrals, etc.).

The course focuses on the acquisition of the editorial skills and techniques for specialized journalists (newsworthiness, adaptation to the public, suitable media platforms for dissemination and outreach, etc.). The various lessons will shed light on the advantages and pitfalls of specialized journalism (economics, culture, fashion, sport, health, etc.).

This course introduces precepts in socio-politics related to “plural societies” and “national identities” to understand and analyze challenges of communication interfaces in a globalized world, considering socio-political and socio-cultural factors. The program focuses on communication, persuasion, and rhetoric, that prepare students to analyze and to build political messages and discourses. It presents sociopolitical communication as an anticipation of political and social behaviors in permanent changing contexts, consisting in a set of strategies and tools, an academic field, and a political activity. Each session will be provided by theories, concrete case studies, and discussions, helping students in identifying the gap between the rhetoric and the reality on the ground.

The course introduces the different divisions of a newsroom and teaches the students how to produce and prepare a news bulletin with relevant sections and subsections, running order… Additionally students receive extensive training to write diverse television news stories, and appropriate introductions for aired reports. The course starts with providing key terms and some samples taken from renowned television channels in Lebanon. The hands-on part is the essential constituent of the course, involving best practices for newsgathering processes and issue exploration for various news topics with special focus on language errors, misinterpretations, and misunderstandings.

The course combines teaching news and reports writing for radio and TV, which is following the lead of digital media. Throughout the lessons, students will learn the components of the radio and television newscasts, along with essential grammatical notions to avoid language mistakes. The course also provides various ways to find reliable sources of information to elaborate a credible report that meets professional requirements. Furthermore, and based on diction lessons, future reporters and news anchors will be able to read scripts and present them in accordance with the different requirements of radio and television media.

Media are replete with expressions, stereotypes, patterns, interpretations, images, signs, graffiti, and caricatures that shape our perception, knowledge and understanding of events. This course helps the students to decode and contextualize the media discourse to detect its underlying orientation. Considering that a text is an assemblage of signs that entails among others: words and images with reference to the conventions associated with a genre and in a particular medium of communication, the course initiates the students to understand and analyze the symbolic meaning of an image to discover its fundamental communicative purpose.

The course delivers specialized instruction in the fundamentals of business, finance, and economics. Students will be able to track, record, analyze and interpret a wide spectrum of related articles. The lessons do not tackle the dense technicalities of advanced economics and statistics; instead, students will learn to interpret the data and write articles for a lay audience.

The course teaches the hallmarks of journalistic writing along with the basic techniques to write simple, compound, and complex new items. The hands-on experience will train students to be more selective with terms and avoid common errors, highlighting some basic Arabic grammar notions. Furthermore, considering the major role of Press Agencies as a news supplier, students will learn to use news efficiently, to write articles and reports with compatible titles for newspaper and digital media formats. Additionally, the various topics will incentivize the future journalists to widen their horizons, while constantly seeking to develop their knowledge with useful information and enrich their backgrounds with updated information on a wide range of topics.

Media are replete with expressions, stereotypes, patterns, interpretations, images, signs, graffiti, and caricatures that shape our perception, knowledge and understanding of events. This course helps the students to decode and contextualize the media discourse to detect its underlying orientation. Considering that a text is an assemblage of signs that entails among others: words and images with reference to the conventions associated with a genre and in a particular medium of communication, the course initiates the students to understand and analyze the symbolic meaning of an image to discover its fundamental communicative purpose.

This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of a development of a marketing and communication plan. Planning, selection, and evaluation of all major mass media vehicles and the various decisions and problems that arise in those processes will be discussed and considered. In addition to gaining a broad knowledge of the various media techniques, patterns and the factors that influence the mass media decisions. The students will learn specifically the component of a media plan and the implementation of a media schedule.

This course aims to introduce students to the importance of audio in general and radio in particular as a communication tool for advertising. Designing a spot requires a choice between several concepts, voice-overs, music, editing, and all factors that make a successful radio campaign.

In this course students will explore the diverse landscape of popular platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter (X), LinkedIn, and more, understanding their unique audiences, engagement strategies, and advertising potential. Students will learn how to create compelling content, build vibrant communities, navigate the everchanging algorithms, and measure the success through insightful analytics.

This course addresses the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict since the founding of the State of Israel and its impact on the regional and international political map, including: the interference of international powers in this conflict, the political contexts of the wars of 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, and the process of peace (the peace conference in Madrid, the Oslo Accords, and the peace treaty between Israel and Jordan), the problem of the Golan Heights and the Shebaa Farms.

The relationship between mass media and politics has become an increasingly controversial topic in the public debate ever since the US elections 2016. Technological developments and social changes increased the influence of mass media on public opinions and thus outcomes of elections. Besides benefits such as a broader political understanding amongst parts of populations that had little interest in political participation in the past, the changes in the role of mass media in politics also brings several internal as well as external challenges and threats to democracies.

This course is designed to mentor the students during a professional training of 45 hours in a media organization (newspaper, magazine, TV, radio, or digital media). The internship experience will provide them with an important know-how that may only be gained through experience and on-the-job training. At the end of the internship period, students are requested to submit a report to summarize their experience and shed light on their acquired learning outcomes and professional skills.