MES4610 – Voices from the Middle East: How to Communicate Research Results

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In this course, you will be trained in communicating your research to a general, non-academic public. You will be offered an opportunity to practice how to make your academic research interests relevant and accessible to a general audience.

Aiming to enrich common knowledge and public debates on the Middle East, this course will help you to apply your expertise in a more concrete way than in academic papers and to explain your ideas in non-technical language. By working with media oriented towards a general audience (such as presentations and podcasts), you will acquire editing and communication skills that constitute some of the basic abilities expected from gr