Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies
Areas of Specialization
Courses emphasize creating, understanding, interpreting, and evaluating messages. This area of specialization concentrates on providing students with a variety of courses from several specializations.
This concentration of courses is appropriate for students seeking careers in business, nonprofit organizations, sales, public relations, customer service, counseling, and hospitality services (e.g. travel or hotel industry). This specialization focuses on the power building and maintaining positive of relationships.
Courses focus on communication flow within contemporary business, public service, nonprofit, and corporate organizations. This specialization prepares students for communication careers in a variety of business and organizational settings.
Emphasizes study in rhetoric, public address, and argumentation. This concentration is appropriate for students planning careers in business and industry, nonprofit organization, sales and marketing, the ministry, law, and politics.
Students seeking secondary teacher certification are required to take courses that prepare them to teach a variety of communication courses. These courses include interpretive reading, argumentation and debate, methods of teaching communication studies, directed communication studies and theatre activities, and a choice of many others.
Communication Student Organizations
Communication Studies Graduate Association