CARIMAC welcomes seventh cohort for MA CSBC
Dr. Maria Protz explains how grad students can benefit from the Communication for Sustainable Development Initiative at CARIMAC.
“We promise to provide you with a programme that is academically and professionally sound,” said CARIMAC director Dr. Canute James in his address to new graduate students of the Communication for Social and Behaviour Change (CSBC) programme.
This seventh cohort was welcomed by James, programme coordinator Dr. Anthea Henderson and other members of staff at a special orientation session on January 21.
The session provided these incoming students with an overview of the programme, registration and examination guidelines as well as tips on how to successfully complete the master’s programme.
“Open your mind and allow a fresh approach to your thinking,” advised Gillian Scott, recent graduate of the MA CSBC. She said that this strategy was important for her own success in the programme. “My approach and my thinking, which was top-down, were immediately challenged…I had to tear up the old framework of how I viewed communication because sometimes what you think will work just simply doesn’t.”
The MA CSBC is a two-year taught programme. This year’s cohort has 25 students from a range of backgrounds including health and education.
The MA CSBC is designed to produce specialists in the role of communication in social and behaviour change programme design with special skills in social change communication strategies especially applicable to the Caribbean and other developing countries.
CARIMAC receives research funding from local agencies
