Welcome to the Department of Communication
The study of communication focuses on how people produce and process messages, and how their message options and decisions affect others' thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors. Societies, institutions, organizations, groups, families, friendships, romances, and everyday human encounters are constituted by - and through - both face-to-face and mediated communication. These social arrangements flourish or flounder as a consequence of the communication events and episodes of which they are comprised. Thus, the study of communication principles and processes can be fascinating as theory and invaluable in practice.