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Upon completion of a major in Communication Studies, students will be able to:
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- Explain why it is important to study human communication.
- Define the sub-disciplines within communication studies, including interpersonal, group, organizational, intercultural, public, and digital communication.
- Articulate what makes a communicator competent.
- Appraise the role of ethics and diversity in contemporary communication.
- Apply concepts of communication studies to personal, academic, and professional contexts.
- Discuss local, national, and global trends in communication and assess their impact on individual or collective decision-making.
- Construct effective messages about communication using the terminology of the discipline.
- Explain major models, theories, and methods of communication studies.
- Explain the role of perception in communication.
- Describe the functions and components of verbal and nonverbal communication, including effective listening.
- Construct and communicate persuasive, ethical, logically sound, effectively evidenced, well organized, stylistically felicitous messages that are appropriately tailored to a given audience.
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