Careers in Communication

Whether students plan to major in communication or to take a few classes in order to explore the discipline, what they learn is sure to be useful throughout their working lives. An exploration of that central drama of the human condition-communication-in various contexts such as political, organizational, intercultural, cross-gender, nonverbal, media, interpersonal, small group, rhetoric, and so on, is intended to provide the students theoretical grounding and career flexibility. These courses prepare them to be professionals as varied as politicians or lawyers, media critics or media moguls, advertising executives or public relations experts, organizational dynamics specialist or professional negotiators, communication managers for political leaders across nations or for corporation czars across cultures, hell raisers in political/social movements or subtle shifters of the zeitgeist through blogosphere, and, of course, scholars, researchers, professors, and public intellectuals.