Majors may elect to follow one of five areas of emphasis (health, integrated, interpersonal, social and media and communication technology, or strategic and communication organizational communication). All majors complete a capstone sequence that integrates academic course work and applies course material to real-world experience.

Because communication studies teaches students the skills that are in high demand by today?s employers, the major offers excellent preparation for a number of career paths. Students become adept at communicating across through types of media, conducting research, evaluating information and working collaboratively ? all assets in a variety of business, government, education and nonprofit workplaces. Students who major in communication studies also have the option of going on to graduate or professional school after their bachelor?s degree is completed.

Communication is a liberal studies degree. It includes a variety of types of knowledge and ways of thinking. Students of communication are interested in all aspects of human communication. While human communication is unique and varied, there is also much about it that is routine and predictable.Communication scholars seek to discover the mechanisms and rules that govern the wide range of communication activities using a battery of social scientific techniques.

We try to develop theories that will account for why we act the way we do. As an academic discipline, Communication Studies is both young and old. If we consider our rhetorical past, we?re as old as any. If we consider that we?ve only been studying communication in a theoretical sense, for less than 50 years, then we?re very young. As an undergraduate in Communication Studies, we?ll try to teach you what we?ve learned over the last fifty years. As a result, you can expect a great range of topics. However, if your interests lay in a particular direction, our program should allow you to specialize as well.