Department of Comm Arts

Communication Arts is one of the largest departments in the College of Letters and Science, with upwards of 600 undergraduate majors and a graduate program of 80 MA and PhD students. Nearly 4000 students enroll in its classes each semester. The department offers two tracks of study at the undergraduate level: Rhetoric and Communication Science, and Radio-TV-Film. At the graduate level, degrees are offered in Media and Cultural Studies, Rhetoric, Politics, & Culture, Film, and Communication Science. We teach media production courses as well as critical studies. Students and faculty in Communication Arts analyze the production and consumption of communication in all its forms: its influence and effects, its history and industry structures, the uses to which it is put, its characteristic forms and texts, and the technologies through which it is made, distributed, and used. Communication is one of the fastest-growing fields in the humanities and social sciences today.