Specialty Areas

Film & Video Production

MA students concentrating in Film and Video Production take courses with nationally recognized, award-winning filmmakers who specialize in narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Communication Studies

MA and PhD students in Communication Studies work with faculty within and across two working groups: Rhetoric & Media Studies and Health & Relational Communication.

Rhetoric & Media Studies

Rhetoric and Media Studies draws together faculty and graduate students in the critical study of how language, in the broadest sense of the term, works at the intersection of politics, culture, and history, and within the changing global landscape of media technology.
Specific areas of faculty expertise include:

African American Rhetoric
Critical/Cultural Studies
Digital Media & Technologies
Film Studies
Public Address
Political Communication
Rhetorical Theory and Criticism
Religious Communication

Applied Communication

Faculty in Applied Communication offer students interdisciplinary experiences in the theory, practice, and research of health communication, persuasion, interpersonal and small group communication, and research methods.
Specific areas of faculty expertise include:

Discourse Studies
End-of-Life Communication
Instructional Communication
Interpersonal Communication
Family Communication
Palliative Care
Patient-Provider Interaction

Communication graduate students can also earn graduate certificates with programs such as Women's and Gender Studies in consultation with their committees and the granting program.