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Communication
About the Curriculum
The Culture and Communication department offers majors in communication, with specializations in:
In addition, the department
offers majors in Sociology, Anthropology, Criminal Justice and Urban Environmental Studies.
The department is committed to helping students become broadly educated and
professionally competent individuals. Students are exposed to a variety of
media and are guided in the development of their interpretive and expressive
skills.
All Communication majors take a common core of courses that emphasize communication
theory and methods. Then, they specialize in one of three concentrations. Students
in the Corporate and Public Relations concentration pursue careers
in public relations, corporate training, and corporate communication. Those
who
choose
the Technical
and Science Communication concentration go on to work in technical writing,
science writing, publishing, and software and hardware documentation. Global
Journalism students pursue careers in journalism and news. Many communication
graduates also go on to law school, to business school for an MBA, or to graduate
school.
Students who elect the Corporate and Public Relations concentration
have the option of pursuing either a Bachelor of Arts degree or a Bachelor
of Science
degree.
Students who elect the Technical and Science Communication concentration must
pursue the Bachelor of Science degree. Students in Global Journalism must complete
the requirements for the Bachelor of Arts degree.
The department also offers minors in Anthropology, Communication,
Criminal Justice and Sociology, each of which requires 24 credit hours of study.