About Us

The Department of Communication is dedicated to the development of human communication and personal expression in a dynamic global community. The department’s primary focus is high-quality teaching of applied and theoretical subjects. The department is committed to developing instructional strategies that will provide excellent opportunities for students to interconnect across disciplines in a competitive world. To accomplish this mission, the department will:

• engage in excellent instruction by ensuring that students learn in formats appropriate to the mission of the College of Arts and Sciences;
• focus its resources in such a manner as to deliver high-quality educational programs supported fairly and equitably across the disciplines. This fairness will be refl ected in the budget for faculty, offi ce, instructional space equipment, student assistance, faculty research and travel, library, and other support
services;
• offer programs that have relevance to the profession, the students enrolled, and the discipline, Relevance will be defi ned as a series of experiences that enable the curriculum to have a vision, a mission and a clearly expressed objective;
• engage in the self-refl ection necessary to carry out our mission. The department will evaluate individual program components; will evaluate outcomes of individual students; will evaluate the key constituents of the various programs; and will conduct regular progam reviews.

The department provides instruction in a range of communication platforms from the Internet to wireless communications to convergence technologies that require constant program assessment, the revision of existing courses, and the evelopment of new courses to meet ever-changing demands. The Communication faculty also provides the theoretical framework and practical application that enable communication practitioners to enhance their knowledge and skills to meet ever-changing market demands.