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Mission

Communication and Media is dedicated to the critical study of various forms of communication and media as a dynamic and influential part of cultural life. The curriculum offers students opportunities for creating and sharing content across platforms, critically analyzing media content and structures, and examining their intersections with cultures, audiences, technologies, and civic life. 

Communication and Media is part of the Department of Communication, Media, and Performance, which emphasizes a liberal arts approach to learning that encourages students to develop habits of cultural awareness and respect, engaged citizenship, thoughtful professionalism, and a meaningful private life in order to contribute to a more equitable world.

The major in Communication and Media takes students through a core of 4 courses that provide foundational knowledge and critical tools in both public communication and media studies. Students customize their minor when they choose 6 electives that permit them to focus on communication and media subject areas of interest, which include but are not limited to: institutional structures, politics, gender and sexuality, health, marketing and branding, and ethnography. The major culminates in a year-long senior project, which offers students the opportunity to work with a faculty member guide to critically investigate a topic of interest, which often emerges from their advanced coursework.

The minor in Communication and Media provides a foundation in public communication or media studies. Students customize their minor by choosing 5 electives, 4 from Communication and Media that cover the same subject areas of interest noted in the paragraph above. Additionally, minors select 1 elective from Communication and Media, Filmmaking, Journalism and Documentary Storytelling, or Theatre

Courses

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Programs

• Communication and Media Major

• Communication and Media Minor

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