Courses cover major topics associated with the construction of a communication campaign, including research, message strategy and execution, media selection, and public-relations program development. Students prepare to enter law school or seek leadership positions in business or professional organizations. Communication and Public Culture. Both contemporary and historical aspects of culture are rooted in symbolic communicative behavior. This sequence is a unique liberal arts program covering a wide range of significant cultural forms, past and present, and has the development of communication-based critical competency as its unifying objective.
Students gain an understanding and practical view of communication processes.
Emphasis is on how people interact in various communicative settings. Organizational Communication . Students gain an understanding of the wide variety of communicative processes related to how organizations function in society. Students are prepared to assume professional positions or to enter scholarly careers in human communication. Students cross departmental sequences to develop an understanding of the humane and social-scientific concepts of human interaction.