Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies

Duquesne University

Communication studies draws from the richness of the communication discipline to allow you to design a program of study that meets your unique interests and professional goals through a broad understanding of how communication functions in interpersonal, group, organizational and public contexts. As a communications studies major in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies, you will develop competencies in a number of areas, including intercultural and interpersonal communication, organizational communication, argumentation, event planning, persuasion, professional communication, visual communication, rhetoric and popular culture, digital media and community relations. Spring-boarding off of Duquesne’s liberal arts foundation, the program will also instill in you aspects of communication ethics, intercultural communication and communication research methods. As a graduate of the communication studies program, you will be able to pursue a career in businesses and for-profit and non-profit organizations across a vast array of industries. Or you’ll be well prepared to attend graduate school in communication, law, healthy policy and administration, public policy or business. In addition to the Liberal Arts General Outcomes for all Undergraduate Degree Areas, students in the B.A. in Communication Studies program will demonstrate the following general competencies: Demonstrate communication skills: Students will demonstrate appropriate and effective communication skills appropriate for marketplace contexts. Ethical praxis: Students will articulate the importance of "the good" protected and promoted as the narrative and philosophical basis for ethical decision making in communicative contexts in public and private life, while recognizing the presence of diverse conceptualizations of the good in a world of narrative and virtue contention. Describe the communication discipline and its central questions: Students will identify central questions of the communication field.

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