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COMMUNICATION STUDIES
The Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication Studies is an interdisciplinary and primarily liberal arts based curriculum that emphasizes course work in media studies, cultural studies, intercultural communication, and rhetoric. Participating faculty are involved with analyzing and teaching about the roles, responsibilities, functions, and/or power of communication institutions, discourses, and participants in processes of construction, maintenance, and change in both the public and private spheres of our information-based, culturally diverse society. Accordingly, the goal is to equip students with the ability to understand, investigate, prescribe, and/or generate strategies for and instances of communication in multiple and multi-dimensional contexts.
The program offers three sequences: 1) Public Communication, 2) Media and Cultural Studies, and 3) Intercultural Communication. Each sequence reflects a disciplinary component highlighting courses in the designated discipline(s) or fields within the School and an interdisciplinary component in which pertinent course work in cognate disciplines within the School and in other departments in the Schmidt College of Arts and Letters is a part. In each sequence there is flexibility, particularly in the choice of electives, to allow students to enhance the pragmatic and/or liberal arts aspects of their program in the process of designing a course of study leading to an academic career and/or such professions as public/press relations, political activism, speech writing, campaign management and consulting, media writing, programming, and consulting, organizational communication consulting, foreign services, conflict mediation, and media/cultural analysis and criticism.
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Intercultural Communication
Media and Cultural Studies
Public Communication
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