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.