This approach to teaching writing and speaking promises to significantly improve the essential capability of communication among our students. Six months ago, we opened a new Foreign Language Technology Center. I don't believe it is an exaggeration to say that use of such technology can revolutionize the teaching of foreign languages. We offer many diverse undergraduate concentrations in communication, English, French, Spanish, history, multidisciplinary studies, philosophy and religion, political science, social work, and sociology that lead to careers in fields ranging from communications, human relations, and teaching to government, social work, and law. Our largest department in terms of number of students, Communication, is continually upgrading its facilities for teaching technical courses like audio, video, and film editing and production to mirror industry standards.
Students earn two degrees, one in a technical area and one in the humanities and social sciences.
Such an education provides these students tangible advantages in terms of flexibility and leadership potential in their careers. We now have six double-degree programs across campus with the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Engineering, Forest Resources, Management, and Textiles and the School of Design. In just the past yea,r we have begun offering the Ph.D. in public administration. This doctoral program joins the well established Ph.D. in sociology, which has been very successful in placing graduates in teaching positions at leading universities. At the master's level, we have large and successful programs.