Bachelor of Science in Communication Studies

Oregon State University - INTO USA

The Communication Studies major consists of 53 credits of coursework which focuses on the theories regarding, research about, and practices of human communication. Courses in communication studies offer students opportunities to study the nature, significance, and application of communication in interpersonal, small groups, organizational and societal contexts. Under the relational and rhetorical approaches, these courses cover various forms of communication, including oral, written, visual, mediated, and technological and with a range of topics such as health, family, interculture, argumentation. Communication Studies graduates have found employment in a variety of fields that emphasize the many facets of human communication: public relations, training and development, education, nonprofit corporation development, mediation and conflict management, politics, advertising, sales and management, and law. Our graduates have also excelled in outstanding graduate programs at both the MA and PhD levels.

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