Students majoring in speech prepare for careers in which oral communication plays a major role.
Students majoring in mass communications prepare to become broadly educated, well-trained communicators in print or broadcast journalism or public relations. Students majoring in pre-professional speech pathology learn to diagnose and treat speech, hearing, and language disorders and ultimately find employment with hospitals, private speech and hearing centers, health departments, or universities. Since these Speech Pathology majors ordinarily attend graduate school before entering their professional careers, they are encouraged to take the Graduate Record Examination during their senior year. Speech and Pre-professional Speech Pathology courses have COMM as a prefix and are listed under Communications in the back of this catalog. Mass Communications courses have MCOM as a prefix and are listed under Mass Communications in the back of this catalog.