The Communication Studies major provides the intellectual resources integral to communication professionals and essential to citizenship.  Students learn about communication as both a practice and the study of that practice so that they may know and use various understandings of communication to solve practical communication problems.

The communication studies curriculum combines a broad overview of the field with an emphasis in one or two professional areas. Students learn to apply broad-based communication theory to their chosen areas of focus in mass communication and/or communication arts, as well as in the electives they take outside of the School of Communications.  Graduates of the program are prepared to work in organizations that believe in the value of life-long learning--those recognizing that a broad, liberal education combined with excellent skills in reading, writing, speaking, and listening are the best qualification for a career. This major is also appropriate for students who plan to pursue graduate study.

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