MAZ opens the door to Hamburg for Swiss nationals

In cooperation with the University of Hamburg and the Hamburg Media School, the MAZ is offering a new course of study: the Professional Master in Journalism. In this highly practice-oriented course, graduates will learn the tricks of the journalistic trade and benefit from the latest findings in journalism and media research. They are supervised and taught for four semesters by international media professionals and academics. In the first nine months, the budding journalists study in Hamburg, followed by a practical phase of at least three months, and in the second year they are at the MAZ in Lucerne. "We opted for Hamburg because the Professional Master's program corresponds exactly to our ideas of a degree course with a strong practical focus. As academic director, Professor Siegfried Weischenberg guarantees that basic principles and research findings do not come from an ivory tower and are always taught in an application-oriented and project-based manner," said MAZ Director Sylvia Egli von Matt. International contacts will now be added to the Swiss network, which already functions excellently at the MAZ. The Hamburg Media School is supported by the University and the City of Hamburg as well as renowned German publishing houses, including Gruner+Jahr, Spiegel and Axel Springer. After successfully completing their studies, the prospective journalists graduate with a dual degree: the title "Master of Arts in Journalism" from the University of Hamburg and the MAZ diploma. The degree is internationally recognized and entitles students to write a dissertation. The new course starts on October 2, 2006 and the application deadline is June 30, 2006.