Communication Arts

About

Communications provides students with versatile, in-demand skills that employers value across industries. With a degree in communication, students become expert at building relationships, managing conflict, understanding others, and fostering human development. 

Students take courses in a variety of communications areas including:

• Interpersonal – one-on-one conversations, conflict resolution
• Intercultural – communicating across different backgrounds
• Organizational – understanding how teams, companies, and institutions function
• Political – persuasion and public discourse
• Mass communication – media, reaching large audiences

Students gain hands-on experience through public speaking competitions, speech and debate, the campus newspaper, campus radio, or internships.

Related Careers

• Broadcast journalist/radio and TV announcer
• Journalist
• Communications director
• Public relations specialist/public information officer
• Marketing and brand communications
• Technical writer
• Interpreter and translator
• Secondary school teacher