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The study of communication is essential for participation in an increasingly complex and mediated global environment.


New Curriculum in 2024–2025

The new curriculum is intended to be more interdisciplinary, flexible, and student-centric. We are calling it a pathways approach to communication. We will continue to give students focused opportunities to engage with the department’s core areas of expertise — interpersonal and organizational communication, media arts, media and technology studies, new media, performance studies, rhetoric, and writing for screen and stage — but the new curriculum allows students to bring these areas together in new combinations.

The new curriculum offers students five pathways they can pursue: 

  1. Communication and Everyday Life
  2. Media Arts, Performance, and Critical Practice
  3. Media Technologies and Public Culture
  4. Organization, Communication, and Work
  5. Rhetoric, Activism, and Advocacy

Other related programs include:

Other opportunities with the Department of Communication