传播学通过参与有效和符合道德的交流，使学生能够成为成功和有思想的全球公民。传播研究提供的知识和技能对我们的个人，职业和公民生活的成功与丰富至关重要。交流学科重点关注人们如何使用消息在各种背景，文化和媒体之间生成和共享含义。通过交流学位，学生将学会展示动态，有效和有说服力的口头交流技巧，并能够以适当的风格清晰，简洁，正确地写作。作为“伞形学位”，传播学为学生准备了在日益全球化的世界中从事各种令人振奋的职业的机会，例如公共关系，广播，新闻，广告，法律，商业，医疗保健，研究生院和教学。
Communication Studies empowers students to become successful and mindful global citizens by engaging in effective and ethical communication. Communication Studies provides knowledge and skills that are critical for success and enrichment in our personal, professional and civic lives. The discipline of Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate and share meanings across various contexts, cultures, and media. Known as “rhetoric” in the Western academic tradition, communication pedagogy has been a central concern of Greek, Roman, Medieval, Renaissance, Asian, Indigenous and modern culture. Today, the study and applications of communication embraces the Internet, e-commerce, mobile communications, global diplomacy, advertising, public relations, journalism, broadcasting, intercultural and interpersonal communication, as well as public speaking, digital mechanisms and media studies.<br>The Department of Communication (DOC) Internship program is one of the flagship areas of the department, where students can apply what they learn in the classroom to actual problems faced by real organizations and businesses. In COM 3950, Communication Practicum, students select internships in any area of communication including advertising, corporate communication, journalism, public relations, social media, or multimedia communication.