With the increasingly important role of communications in the information age, this major leads to career opportunities at local, regional, national, and international levels. The multicultural and interdisciplinary focus in this concentration offers students the opportunity to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to explore issues and ideas from varied perspectives.
Students learn to create and manipulate video, graphics, animation, sound and text on computers.
This concentration prepares them with the theory and design approaches that will communicate, educate and entertain. This concentration focuses on the development of the written skills needed to communicate in a technological world. The major also includes the core curriculum of the University's general education program. Eligible students may participate in the undergraduate honors program . Specific course requirements for the Communications major are available in the USIU Catalog .