交流创造意义并建立世界。传播学系的任务是探索传播在塑造我们的关系，机构和社会中的核心作用。该系准备让学生成为他们居住的所有社区中的创新学者，敬业公民，有效的传播者和有远见的领导者。研究生课程主要是博士学位课程，尽管有时学生会被录取为硕士或选择与硕士一起离开。传播研究的使命是提供博士教育首屈一指，并在传播理论的研究和知识传播方面提供国家和国际领导地位。在研究生一级，该系专注于将交流作为一种社会实践进行研究。我们的教职员工和研究生从事奖学金和教学活动，其重点是沟通在社会生活的构建，维护和转变中所扮演的角色。该
The Master of Arts program in Communication Studies requires a minimum of 36 semester hours of graduate credit, including at least 30 semester hours earned at the University of Iowa. Learn to interpret and contribute to communication research using qualitative, quantitative, and critical-cultural methods. Evaluate and apply communication theories broadly conceived to a range of social, cultural, interpersonal, and other contextual and communicative settings. Demonstrate familiarity with relevant subfields of scholarship in communication studies and related disciplines. At the graduate level, the department focuses on the study of communication as a social practice. Our faculty and graduate students engage in scholarship and teaching that center on the role that communication plays in the construction, maintenance, and transformation of social life. The program embraces both humanistic and social scientific perspectives and methods.