Program in Communication Studies

The Department of Communication Studies, Dance, and Theatre offers a major program in communication studies with tracks in mass communication and speech communication. Additionally,minors are offered in advertising and public relations. Students are also able to self-design a minor course of study.

The goals of the programs in communication studies are:

• to explore communication as a basic liberal arts area of interest to all disciplines and occupations;
• to improve student communication skills through guided practice and evaluations to examine the role that communication has played in human relationships throughout history;
• to accumulate those tools that will help students to become more critical consumers, critics and creators of communication.