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Department of Communication
Department of Communication
College of Arts and Humanities
Department of Communication
VINCENT L. BLOOM, Chair
Speech Arts Building, Room 15
(559) 278-2826
FAX: (559) 278-4113
Department of Communication
VINCENT L. BLOOM, Chair
Speech Arts Building, Room 15
(559) 278-2826
FAX: (559) 278-4113
http://www.csufresno.edu/comm/
Minor in Communication
Communication Skills for Professionals Certificate
Faculty
Vincent L. Bloom, Chair
Katherine L. Adams, Diane M. Blair, Melanie M. Bloom, Hal W.
Bochin, John A. Cagle, Carl W. Carmichael, Connie J. Conlee, George
E. Diestel, Daniel S. Fox, Douglas Fraleigh, L. Ralph Hennings,
Scott D. Moore, Robert G. Powell, David F. Quadro, Kathleen M.
Torrens, W. Richard Ullmann
The Department
Our aim is to prepare you to compete in, understand, and provide
leadership in a communication-oriented society. We offer a balance
of humanistic and scientific instruction in communication skills
people need to function effectively in teaching, business, law,
the communication professions, public service and administration,
the ministry, public relations, politics, and management. You
have an opportunity to explore the full range of human communication.
Our major and minor are well grounded in interpersonal skills,
problem-solving and decision-making methods, group and organizational
leadership, and intercultural interaction. We study issues such
as how we perceive events, express ourselves verbally and nonverbally,
and how communication influences human behavior and social change.
We develop competence in oral and written communication, statistics
and research methods (including using computers), and how to employ
these skills in specific career areas.
The Communication Skills for Professionals Certificate program
recognizes development in such areas as presentational speaking,
problem solving and decision making, leadership, and interpersonal
communication.
Our program offers a variety of exciting activities to enrich
your educational experience. We have a fine intercollegiate forensics
program, which includes the Professional Communication Association,
and a national communication conference each spring that brings
scholars and students from around the country.
We offer you personalized advising. Our major builds on a sound core of foundation courses and is completed by courses selected to meet your needs and career objectives. Our major requirements are flexible and easily integrated into a host of minors. We think your choice of an adviser is an important decision, and we encourage our students to pick their own adviser.
Career Opportunities
In the new millennium, a degree in communication opens a great
number of career doors. Increasingly, we see a wide variety of
job descriptions across professional disciplines which list competence
in communication as the highest priority. An essential goal for
us is to help you develop as a competent communicator.
In addition, we try to provide an educational base for our majors
and minors for specific careers requiring competencies in oral
and written communication and in interpersonal and managerial
situations.
Communication graduates are employed as public relations consultants,
personnel managers, political campaign directors, management analysts,
teachers, counselors, lawyers, ministers, human resource specialists,
and marketing representatives. We offer students a discipline
widely suited to today's uncertain job market. National placement
studies reveal that communication majors are finding jobs with
reasonably high job satisfaction and above average pay rates,
and that their rate of promotion is significantly faster.
The pursuit of a career is of great concern to students today,
but it is important to recognize that the quality of your education
will determine your success in life as well as how to make a living.
More than half of college graduates do not enter fields directly
tied to their majors.
As you begin making decisions about your life and what you want
to do with it, remember that we will be happy for you to join
us in the most exciting and fundamental discipline of all -- the
study of human communication.
Communication Courses