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• The Major in Communication Studies
  • Program Learning Goals
  • Major Course Requirements
• The Minor and Courses
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  • Courses in Communication Studies (COM)
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Interested students should contact the Department of Communication Studies at 646-312-3720 or visit the department's website.

Program Learning Goals

 Upon completion of a major in Communication Studies, students will be able to:

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

Major Course Requirements

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