Degrees Offered:
- Offered through the College of Media, Communication and Information: BA, MA, PhD
- Minor
The Department of Communication is now part of the College of Media, Communication and Information (CMCI). Students wishing to pursue a degree in Communication should review the information available on the CMCI website. Continuing students who declared a major in Communication prior to Spring 2015 are completing their degree in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Communication is a discipline that bridges the humanities and social sciences. It fosters critical thinking about the ways that symbols and interactions contribute to social problems and solutions to them, identities and differences, organizations and work, and personal and group relationships.
At the same time, the major provides instruction and practice in the skills of effective communication and collaborative problem solving that employers are looking for - speaking, writing, reading, listening, asking good questions, utilizing media, and working in groups. The mix of theory and practice gives students the tools to improve communication performance and critical awareness of it across a wide range of contexts.
The major in communication leads to the bachelor of arts (B.A.) degree. Courses offered within the major include group interaction skills; public speaking, interpersonal communication; organizational communication; argumentation; rhetorical theory; communication theory; intercultural communication; discourse, culture and identities; and many others.