Communication Studies

The Program Learning Outcomes for this major are:

• Communicate methods to influence public discourse.
• Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
• Demonstrate how to engage in communication inquiry.
• Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals (self efficacy).
• Demonstrate the ability to critically analyze messages.
• Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
• Employ communication theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts.
• Show how to apply ethical communication principles and practices.
• Utilize communication techniques to include different viewpoints, perspectives, and cultural groups.