This concentration allows students to combine interests in several areas of communication study. The generalist focus allows students to choose options that create intersections that would support specific career outcomes, such as focusing on health communication and organizational communication to prepare for a career in health organizations, or a focus on advocacy and culture to prepare for work in humanitarian and social justice fields.<br>Communication studies provides students with modern academic programs for the purpose of understanding human communication. Courses examine multiple, cross disciplinary approaches for studying messages and outcomes resulting from human interactive processes that involve the content and relationship dimensions of sources, receivers, channels and contexts. Emphasis is upon person-to-person transactions involving face-to-face and social media venues at the interpersonal, small group, organizational, and public levels. Instruction employs ways of knowing and research methodologies of social science, historical/critical analysis, and art. Our graduates have successful careers in business, education, government, conflict analysis and intervention, health, public relations, entertainment, personnel management, politics, sales, conference and event planning, hospitality industries and more.