The graduate curriculum addresses six major areas of inquiry in human communication:

• the structure and function of contemporary epistemological, ontological, theoretical, and methodological paradigms in the communication discipline;

• theories of language and nonverbal symbolic interactions; 

• communication processes in organizational settings; 

• communication as an agent of stability and change in diverse social systems;

• the role assumed by communication processes in the formation, development, and coordination of intimate human relationships; and

• the nature and function of argumentative discourse in democratic societies.