A number of certificates are also offered. The undergraduate Bachelor of Arts program surveys the broad panorama of human communication processes, ranging from interpersonal and organizational communication to international communication. It teaches students the history, contemporary significance, and basic operations of modern information technologies, from newspapers, broadcast systems, and the Internet, to multi-media systems. The Master of Library Science program trains professional librarians in specialties ranging from traditional children's services and school libraries to state of the art storage, retrieval and circulation of digital information. Here, reference desk interactions are treated as a communication process, and evaluations of the impact of distributed information systems on library services begin by asking what kind of people, need to know what, when, and where.
Technologies come and go with increasing rapidity.
This program emphasizes the understanding that assessing an organization's need for a new information system, to buy or design that system, to implement and finally to evaluate it, requires team work, critical thinking, knowledge of organizational culture and communication skills. Students are trained in information systems design and implementation, starting with organizational needs assessment and ending with evaluation. A Master of Communication program introduces students to theory and research methods central to the study of communication and information processes at the graduate level. This program is primarily attended by students who plan to continue on to doctoral studies. However, it can be taken as a stand alone degree program.