Communication - MA
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Program Description
*A terminal Masters degree is not offered. The M.A. objective is folded into our Ph.D. program for students entering without a Masters. If interested, please review the Ph.D. program requirements.
The M.A./Ph.D. program in Communication provides students with a theoretical and practical understanding of the process of human communication. The department embraces a social science orientation that includes quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods research. Students work alongside faculty employing empirical methods to study important societal issues concerning human communication. Our program is small by design and it provides students with essential preparation in theory construction, analysis, and research methodologies for conducting original scholarship in communication. Our primary areas include interpersonal-intergroup, media-digital, and organizational-group communication, and also many subareas.
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Students who enter our Ph.D. program without an M.A. in Communication earn their Masters during the first two years of study.
Students who earn Ph.D.s in our program have opportunities for employment in research universities, liberal arts programs, industry, healthcare, nonprofit, and governmental jobs. Many students refine their interests during their course of study.