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The School of Communication provides undergraduate students with a solid liberal arts education, enabling them to become better creators, consumers, and critics of communication in a variety of professional and personal settings. We teach students to think, speak, write, and act with precision and grace.
Opportunities in the School of Communication
Communication is one of the most popular majors at Queens; and it is a field of study that is rapidly expanding nationally.
Majors in Communication are accepted into the School of Communication after applying to the major and meeting the prerequiste requirements. The School of Communication currently offers opportunities for students to study:
- Organizational Communication, for students interested in analyzing and enhancing how communication occurs both within and between organizations and their publics;
- Relational Communication, for students interested in the theories and interrelationships of individual, interpersonal, and intercultural communication, as well as the impacts of gender, age, race, and social group on communication;
- Media Studies, for students interested in mass communication and the way that messages are created, shaped, and produced by the media, across media platforms;
- Journalism, for students interested in reporting news stories and crafting them in words, pictures, and broadcast media for particular audiences; and,
- Sport Communication, for students interested learning about the theory and practice of communication in the professional and recreational sports industry across organizational, relational, and media contexts.
Minors in the School of Communication may be selected by students majoring outside of the School of Communication. Current areas of study include:
- Sport Communication
- Organizational Communication
- Relational Communication
- Media Studies
- Journalism
- Pop Culture
The broad liberal arts education provided by a major in Communication constitutes an excellent basis variety of careers as well as for further study. Alumni thrive in such areas as law, journalism, advertising, public relations, human resources, the
ministry, social work, sports enterprise, government and education.
Communication Majors in Hayworth College
Programs of study in the communication major are offered by the School of Communication through a partnership with Hayworth College. A popular major for Hayworth students, communication provides a strong liberal arts education with an emphasis on communication in organizational and relational settings. The School of Communication also offers a minor for Hayworth students in organizational communication.
The School of Communication is committed to providing academic programs to students in the evenings. Students wishing to complete their major through evening classes are advised to choose a program of study in either relational communication or organizational communication. Students selecting other programs will likely have to take courses during the day.
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