Learning Outcomes

What do you learn in communication studies? The major covers four areas���Core, Foundations, Inquiry, and Practice���through which you'll work towards five program learning outcomes.

In the core, students will 1) examine the historical formation of the communication studies discipline and how it shapes communication as a central problematic in contemporary life, and 2) design their future as communication leaders in contemporary society. 

In foundations, students will 3) explain a set of assumptions and concepts that distinguish an area of communication study.

In Inquiry, students will 4) distinguish the types of questions, problems, or phenomena that a research approach addresses from those it does not. 

In Practice, students will 5) apply a set of communication-related concepts to a problem or phenomenon in a significant relational, sociopolitical, or cultural context.