About This Program
The Communication B.A. facilitates learning about human relations, how to achieve cooperation, and manage conflict. Curriculum includes courses which offer instruction in the production and delivery of effective messages, as well as audience analysis and how to reach them. Understanding and practicing effective communication enhances your self-awareness, improves your relationships and health, and empowers you to become an active citizen of the world.
You develop conceptual and research competence and applied skills in the areas of interpersonal communication, mass media, and rhetoric and public affairs. Students who major in communication at UMD graduate with an understanding of human interpersonal communication interactions, the functions of the media in today’s society, the uses of persuasion, and the nature of communication within organizations.
Program Highlights
- Our program blends a strong core of credits focused on foundational knowledge and skills in communication research, theory, and methodology and then offers flexibility for how you want to specialize in what our faculty deliver
- Core areas are media studies, interpersonal/health communication, rhetoric
- Award winning faculty in both research and teaching
- Engage in hands on experience on a research team
- Research & Experiential Learning
- Active research faculty lead research teams
Student Internships
- 3M
- Alta Technologies
- Boston Scientific
- Minnesota Vikings
- Seagate
- Duluth Pack
- Minnesota Wilderness Hockey
- Walt Disney World
Potential Careers
- Communication director
- Communications assistant
- Media supervisor
- Vice president - communications
- Social media strategist
- Social media manager
- Social media coordinator
- Social media specialist
- Content marketing manager
- Digital strategist
Scholarships
As a student in CAHSS and the Communication department, you have access to scholarships awarded annually. The department specifically awards scholarships at our senior banquet each spring, for which we encourage all eligible students to apply:
- The Greg & Sheila Fox Family Scholarship
- The John Ness Memorial Scholarship
- The Virginia T. Katz Scholarship
- The Fahrenkamp Scholarship
Get Involved
The Communication Club is an excellent way to meet people socially outside of class and to work on events and activities that will build your portfolio. You also have access to hundreds of alumni in our active networks on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Requirements
Refer to the link below for more detailed information about the program, admission requirements, sample plans, and contact information.