Academic Experience
Katey Frederking
MA in Global Communications '15
Through the MA in Global Communications program, students, including myself, learn to analyze, confront, debate and manage the complex ethical issues that define current-day communications at the global scale.
This international program allowed me to live abroad for almost two years, travel to nearly two dozen countries and intern at the Organization for International Cooperation and Development.
Certificat Professionnel de Directrice de la Communication/du Marketing International
The Répertoire National des Certifications Professionelles, also known as RNCP, is the French national register of professional qualifications. It is the central reference framework for all diplomas, qualifications and titles recognized by the French state. This professional certification allows the holder to demonstrate competency of the skills and knowledge necessary to exercise an activity corresponding to a particular professional field. It guarantees that the holder is qualified to begin work in that field immediately, and it is recognized EU-wide.
Identity Formation In A Transnational World
→ This academic paper examines how Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the United States reconstructed their identities after the war.
Museum as a Medium
→ This paper examines why cultural heritage is important and why it becomes destroyed during armed conflicts, with a focus on museum protection.
Women, Conflict Resolution & International Law
→ This paper examines the human trafficking crisis in Russia and former Soviet states following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Marketing Research Practicum
→ This paper presents an exploratory marketing research study on smoking habits among young adults to inform an anti-smoking campaign.
Rule of Law in Russia & China
→ This paper compares media freedom and government control of television news in Russia and China, finding striking similarities in how both authoritarian regimes manipulate information.
Communication & The Public Sphere
→ This paper explores how the Internet has transformed the public sphere from Habermas’s ideal of face-to-face rational debate in physical spaces (like coffee houses) to a global, networked communication system.
Graduate Level Writing
These academic papers were written, submitted and graded through the MAGC program at AUP. Please keep in mind the papers shared were written in the time frame of 2014-2015 and reflect the politics, information, and culture of the time.
Academic Related Travel
Krakow & Auschwitz Study Trip
The trip (in 2015) focused on the sites of social memory, with particular attention to the public display and representation of traumatic historical events within museums, memorials and monuments. The trip also investigated “history tourism” while exploring the meaning and “lived experience” of historical sites and museums for visitors. Why are sites of destruction increasingly popular tourist destinations? How is history told and displayed and to what end? What effect do these representations (and preservations) have on the personal meaning of history?
Fez Study Trip
Founded in 808, Fez is often called ‘the best preserved medieval city’ in North Africa. Held to be Morocco’s spiritual capital, it is both magnet for pilgrims from sub-Saharan Africa and a major draw for tourists in search of ‘something cultural’. My course examined globalization, technologies of the self and how spirituality plays out in music and song; and attended events at the Festival of Sufi Culture (pictured above). The trip will shed light on the development of Fez’s organic built form – and the challenges of conserving it today. A day-trip to the Roman site of Volubilis is also planned.
Marseille Study Trip
This excursion to the lively Mediterranean port city of Marseille focuses on France’s cultural and historical museums “in the periphery.” The highlight of the trip is an extended visit of one of France’s newest national museums, the architecturally spectacular MUCEM, the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, which now houses the collection of the former National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions. We also visit the Marseille History Museum, tour “Le Panier” district and old port