Studying Communication at Purdue University Communication Our faculty members from the various sub-specializations within communication work together to produce graduates who are not only communication experts but liberally educated women and men as well.
Communication is both one of the oldest and one of the newest fields of study.
Later, it emerged from Classical Rome as one of the curriculum of higher education for a good many centuries. As a result, many of the greatest thinkers of Western Civilization, including Plato and Aristotle, have written extensively concerning communication and its role in human society. Today, in American colleges and universities, the study of communication takes place in a variety of settings, among them departments of English, journalism, broadcasting, and speech. At Purdue University, these various aspects of the field have been brought together in a single academic unitthe Department of Communication. Here faculty members from the various sub-specializations within communication work together to produce graduates who are not only communication experts but liberally educated women and men as well.