So you want to be the next Oprah or Stuart Scott.  Or maybe you'd like to become an award-winning journalist like one of our alumni has become.  Perhaps you'd rather be behind the camera, or the editor who pulls it all together.  If these jobs sound cool to you, then you should consider our Mass Media Concentration.

In conjunction with the core curriculum in Communication Studies, the Mass Media Concentration is designed to prepare students to become effective critics and consumers of mass media, and to prepare students for careers in a marketplace increasingly dominated by convergent media.  To this end, students learn skills in print reporting, writing and production, broadcast writing, production, and editing, and creation of digital communication.

 Lambda Pi Eta
 (Honor Society)

 Communication
 Studies Club

 National
 Communication
 Association

 PRSSA

 AEJMC

 International
 Communication
 Association

Communication Studies Core Classes
COMM 101 Public Speaking
COMM 200 Communication Theory 
COMM 210 Media & Society 
COMM 310 Interpersonal Communication
COMM 400 Communication Ethics 
COMM 460 Communication Research
                  Methods   
COMM 461 Senior Seminar 
COMM 492 Communication Internship

Classes Required for 
Mass Media Concentration
ART    221 Graphic Design I
COMM 241 Basic Media Reporting and Writing
COMM 322 Media Law
COMM 325 Media Criticism
COMM 341 Advanced Media Reporting and Writing
COMM 343 Broadcast Production
COMM 410 Computer-Mediated Communication
COMM 443 Advanced Broadcast Production