Our courses are committed to exploring the role of communication in fostering high-quality human relations in interpersonal, organizational, cultural and public contexts.

We see the merit in asking a range of empirical, interpretive and critical questions about how our communication with one another occurs. Such questions are grounded in the foundational premise that human interaction is fundamental to the construction, development and maintenance of personal, social and institutional relationships and to the organization of social life as we know it today.

College graduates face a world where they can expect to change careers several times over but know that, no matter what career they choose, they will have to communicate in order to be successful. Further, workplace success depends on the ability to communicate with others. Workers across all careers in all fields communicate through various means?face-to-face and electronic. A major in communication studies cultivates the skills and theory that go together to help create successful lives and careers.