Communications is at once the oldest and newest of academic disciplines.
It is the oldest because Isocrates established the first institution of higher learning known to the ancient world, a rhetorical arts college in Athens, Greece in 392 BC, five years before Plato established a competing Academy. It is the newest, because it is the study of communications that is igniting the information revolution at the beginning of a new millennium. Communications is the study of how humans make meaning, transmit and receive it. The Communications Department at Rhode Island College teaches students to create successful messages using language, image, movement and sound. Dr. E.J. Min Dr. Moyne Cubbage Prof.