Versatile and flexible degree program which can be used as a gateway into a variety of career fields including sales, training and development, public relations, marketing, recruitment, politics, law, and human resources management.<br>Well-qualified faculty who have an impressive mix of both academic and applied experience in their areas of expertise.<br>Small class sizes that maximize student learning and networking opportunities and promote academic success.<br>Learn how to more effectively market your degree in a competitive economy with dedicated department activities such as Career Preparation Day<br>Integrated degree program: Graduate with both a B.A. (bachelor's) M.A. (master's) degrees in just 5 years<br><br>Communication is a dynamic and varied discipline, offering majors a broad range of career opportunities and pursuits. The major focuses on the primary areas of organizational communication, persuasive communication, interpersonal communication, and rhetorical communication to ground students in theoretical and applied knowledge of the key role that communication plays in all aspects of human interaction. The discipline routinely prepares students to enter any number of diverse professions from event planner to sales, college recruiter to business management, training and development to politics. Students of Communication receive fundamental training in and exposure to the infinite number of contexts in which humans interact with and influence one another. This knowledge base then provides them with an understanding of message processes that will serve them on an ongoing basis, both professionally and personally.<br><br>The Department of Communication offers a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication. In addition to completing required core courses, majors will choose to focus on one of four options: Communication Studies, Interpersonal Communication and Processes, Social Influence, or Organizational Communication. (At this time, only the Communication Studies option is available to online majors and majors at the Quad Cities campus.) Communication majors are able to select minors that complement their major areas of study and their career goals. Minors in Communication and Computer-Mediated Communication are also available. A full-time academic advisor assists students in planning their programs of study.