Communication Studies Major, B.A.
专业介绍
The study of communication is essential for participating in an increasingly complex and mediated global environment. The Department of Communication’s mission is to advance communication for the public good. Through its teaching, research, and service, the department addresses the many ways communication functions to create, sustain, and transform personal life, social relations, political institutions, economic organizations, and cultural and aesthetic conventions in society; promotes competencies required for various modes of mediated and non-mediated communication; and develops skills for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing communication problems and questions. The curriculum is designed to enable students to develop the capacities to be knowledgeable and responsible producers and consumers of communication through engagement, critique, and creativity. The programs of study offered by the department support a vision of citizen-scholars building a better North Carolina and world.
A new curriculum — launched in 2024–2025 — is intended to be more interdisciplinary, flexible, and student-centric. We are calling it a pathways approach to communication. We will continue to give students focused opportunities to engage with the department’s core areas of expertise — interpersonal and organizational communication, media art, media and technology studies, new media, performance studies, rhetoric, and writing for screen and stage — but the new curriculum allows students to bring these areas together in new combinations.
The new curriculum offers students five pathways they can pursue:
- Communication and Everyday Life
- Media Art, Performance, and Critical Practice
- Media, Technology, and Public Culture
- Organization, Communication, and Work
- Rhetoric, Activism, and Advocacy
Details about the curriculum can be found on the Requirements tab.