博士课程的学生学习指导交流过程和效果以及有助于交流的机构和技术研究的理论。博士申请者应获得并展示交流的人文和行为知识，同时获得该学科学术研究所需的技能。
Students in the doctoral program learn theories that guide research into communication processes and effects and into institutions and technologies that lend pattern to communication. Applicants for the PhD are expected to acquire and demonstrate humanistic and behavioral knowledge of communication while acquiring skills requisite to scholarly research in the discipline.