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Communicatie- en Informatiewetenschappen: Multimodal Communication

Master

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Much of our communication involves combining different modes at once, like written text and images, or spoken words and gestures. How do we integrate them? What effect does the medium or the genre that we are using have on how we formulate our messages?

Communicating using a variety of modes or methods

Some think of multimodal communication as something modern—as combining text and videos on websites, or as both hearing and seeing people when we communicate using apps on our smartphones. But it simply means communicating using a variety of modes or methods. 

Face to face

Even a simple face-to-face interaction usually combines the modes of speech and gesture. Humans have been engaging in multimodal communication since prehistoric times, using sounds in combination with visible actions. And despite the fast pace of digital technology development, we still play videos largely on the same real-time scale as that of face-to-face interaction—the human time scale.

Language

English

Title

Master of Arts

Duration

1 year

ECTS credits

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Accreditation

NVAO

Tuition fee 2025/2026

€ 2,601

€ 24,150

€ 21,220


Admission

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Language requirements

7
IELTS overall band
600
TOEFL paper based
250
TOEFL computer based
100
TOEFL internet based

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€ 2,601
€ 24,150
€ 21,220
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€ 2,695
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Start date App. deadline EU/EEA App. deadline Non-EU/EEA
1 Sep '26 31 May '26 1 Apr '26
1 Sep '27 31 May '27 1 Apr '27
1 Sep '28 31 May '28 1 Apr '28

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