Communication and Public Policies: understanding the public administration like a social actor

I think that keeping myself only with my first career is not the correct decision of all, mostly because I want to come back home, in Chiloe, and found a job can be very difficult for a journalist. So, if I want to survive and serve in some public areas, like in city halls, I’ll have to be more functional on social work skills. That’s why I’ve decided to pursue my studies focusing in political sciences, but I only have one problem: this career doesn’t exist in my country, we just have a similar career: Public Administration.

So, thinking in the economic difficulties that I can present in my first years like a journalist, I’ve decided that I can extend my journalism career to a postgraduate course focusing in public policies in Chile. Universidad de Chile has a big postgraduate program based in journalism; where I found a Certificate in Communication and Public Policies, oriented to journalist that already work in some level from the public area and civil society. The program has a lot of practical course where I can learn how to create communication strategies adapted to the necessities of an organization, increase the public participation and development the public administration like a social actor.