交流的各种形式，无论好坏，都会深刻影响我们的社区。传播学使学生能够仔细分析我们通过传播过程共同创造意义和文化的方式。我们询问沟通过程如何创建我们当前的社会现实和条件，并且发现并产生有关新的沟通实践的知识，这些知识可能会改变这些现实，并创造更多公正，公平和包容的社会世界。我们寻求培养学生对多种观点的批判意识，欣赏力和参与度。我们对社会正义的关注使毕业生为应对当代问题和挑战做好了准备。专业和未成年人都获得了分析和提出解决人类状况所面临的复杂问题的经验。我们让学生沉浸在以问题为导向的学习环境中，这种学习环境已经
Communication in its many forms profoundly affects our communities, for better or worse. Communication Studies equips students to carefully analyze the way we co-create meaning and cultures through communication processes. We interrogate how our communication processes create our current social realities and conditions, and we discover and produce knowledge about new communication practices that might transform those realities and create more just, equitable, and inclusive social worlds. We seek to foster students' critical awareness of, appreciation for, and engagement with multiple and diverse perspectives. Our focus on social justice prepares graduates to address contemporary issues and challenges. Majors and minors gain experience analyzing and proposing solutions to complex problems confronting the human condition. We immerse students in problem-oriented learning environments that extend beyond the classroom and into their roles as leaders in the community, the public arena, and the world. Communication Studies complements a variety of fields within the humanities through our engagement with questions of meaning and interpretation. Our focus on meaning-making, symbolic action, and persuasion offers a distinctive worldview that enriches and contributes to conversations in every disciplinary field including the sciences and social sciences.