传播学的博士课程提供世界一流的课程，师资力量和设施，使学生成为学者和教育家。在我们的博士课程中，您将与不同的教职员工一起学习健康传播，跨文化和国际传播，媒体过程和效果，媒体与社会以及组织传播。我们的计划重点是：媒体，社会和政治专注于沟通在政治机构中以及在建立健全的公民参与中所扮演的角色。我们从多种角度审视政治传播，并审视新兴技术，媒体以及信息寻求，处理和决策制定之间的相互作用。我们的研究集中于个人和社会层面的结果。学院和研究生团队合作测试和发展与政治传播有关的理论。<br> <br>媒体与健康促进中心致力
The doctoral program in Communication provides world class curriculum, faculty, and facilities to prepare students as scholars and educators. In our doctoral program, you will work with diverse faculty who study health communication, intercultural and international communication, media processes and effects, media and society, and organizational communication.<br>Our program centers on:<br>Media, Society and Politics focuses on the role that communication plays in political institutions and in creating robust civic engagement. We examine political communication from multiple perspectives and examine the interplay of emerging technology, media, and communication with information seeking, processing, and decision making. Our research focuses on both individual-and societal-level outcomes. Faculty and graduate students work in teams to test and develop theory related to political communication.<br>Media & Health Promotion focuses on media messages and health behavior. This includes social level analysis of mainstream and alternative media as products of and influences on the health of individuals and society, individual level analysis of psychological processes through which health related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors are shaped, and the creation of messages related to health and social well being, as well as how strategic message campaigns can influence decision making and social development.<br>Science Communication focuses on enhancing the relevance and accessibility of scientific information and local context needed for collaborative and sustainable resource management, especially among local populations most at-risk. The program focuses on environmental communication, natural or technological hazards and the use or communication of public policy. Faculty and students specialize in science education, communication campaigns, communicating risks, risk perception analysis, spatial modeling of vulnerability and adaptive capacity of human populations, audience segmentation, media analysis and public engagement.