Department of Communication Studies

Student Learning Outcomes

• Articulate the role of communication in the social construction of reality
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and critically evaluate communication practices, structures, messages, and outcomes
• Articulate the reciprocal relationship between communication and culture
• Demonstrate competency for effective and ethical written communication
• Demonstrate competency for effective and ethical oral communication
• Demonstrate competency for effective and ethical mediated communication.
• Understand and apply communication competencies in civic engagement for a multicultural, global society.

Graduate Program SLOs

• Explain how communication effects the social construction of reality.
• Articulate some basic tenets of theories of human communication from the perspective of one or more specific areas of the field.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify and comprehend scholarly writing in the field.
• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and critically interpret communication practices.
• Articulate the reciprocal relationship between communication and culture.