Academic Catalog 2024–2025

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Department of Communication, Mobility, and Identity

Overview

The Department of Communication, Mobility, & Identity (CMI) embraces interdisciplinary education and research about culture, media, and politics drawing on a range of methods and theoretical approaches to teach competencies and skills in professional and academic practices. Our faculty provide superior undergraduate and graduate instruction across programs in Communication (BA), Interdisciplinary Gender Studies (MA), Migration Studies (MA), and Multimedia Journalism (BA & MA). We offer minors in Advertising and PR, Creative and Journalistic Writing, Gender Studies, Migration Studies, Multimedia Journalism, and Sociology. The CMI department is committed to fostering academic excellence, professional ethics, and social justice action in the region and the Global South. Students in CMI are prepared for career advancement within diverse sectors and/or post-graduate studies in a changing world.

 

The CMI department hosts several groundbreaking programs, including being the first institution in the region to teach a journalism class starting in 1935. CMI is also the host of the only MA programs in Lebanon to offer postgraduate degrees in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies and Migration Studies, since 2014.

Chairperson

  • King, Gretchen

Faculty and Staff

Professors

  • Melki, Jad

Associate Professors

  • Assaf, Nadra
  • King, Gretchen
  • Mohsen, Raed 

Assistant Professors

  • Diab, Jasmin Lilian
  • Jegic, Denijal
  • Kreidie, Lina
  • Rodgers, Cory
  • Sawaf, Zina

Staff

  • Gostanian, Houry, Senior Academic Assistant, Beirut
    Extension Number 1272 / Nicol 511

Contact Information

  • Phone number: Extension 1272
  • Address: Safadi Fine Arts 511, Beirut campus
  • Website

Degrees and Minors Offered

Courses Offered