Our rigorous curriculum prepares you with the effective communication, critical thinking, teamwork and problem-solving skills needed for success in today's marketplace.

While pursuing your degree, you'll investigate communication in aesthetic, cultural, international, interpersonal, legal, organizational and political contexts. Opportunities to research gender and diversity, narrative and social change, politics, social influence and other topics are also available.

After completing the initial degree requirements, your course work may explore:

• Argumentation and debate
• Communication and gender
• Communication and diversity
• Communication and relational development
• Communication in groups and organizations
• Conflict management
• Intercultural communication
• Performance composition and methods
• Rhetoric
• Storytelling

Communication Studies majors examine human communicative behavior and the symbolic processes through which humans interact. Many graduates pursue careers in:

• Consulting
• Corporate communication
• Human resources
• Law
• Management