Students
Our aim is to prepare you to compete, understand, and provide leadership
in a communication-oriented society. We offer a balance of humanistic and
scientific instruction in communication people need to function effectively
in teaching, business, law, the communication professions, public service
and administration, public relations, politics, management and other communicative
contexts. You have an opportunity to explore the full range of human communication.
Our major and minor are well grounded in communication theory, 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.
Our program offers a variety of exciting activities to enrich your educational
experience. We have many opportunities and resources for students including 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.
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.