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Prepare for Careers of Great Meaning in a Variety of High-impact Professions

As a student in ŷַ’s communication major, you’ll gain strong oral, written, and visual communication skills that will prepare you to enter the job market in many roles, industries, and work settings. 

Here, you’ll learn how to be both critical consumers and strategic producers of media, while improving your interpersonal skills in a variety of real-life contexts, from engaging interculturally to expressing your personal stance on global issues.

Communication students depart ŷַ with a well-rounded education that combines theory and practice, the face-to-face and the mediated, the quantitative and the qualitative to provide the understanding, knowledge, training, and expertise on specific and multiple aspects of modern communication theory and practice.

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One of the best things about my experience at ŷַ was networking with great communications professionals. You have professors who have connections outside the classroom and have done real work on the outside. They put us in the right room with different kinds of people, which could lead to internships or volunteer opportunities.”

John Robinson
ŷַ Graduate

Take on Leadership Roles in a Remarkable Range of Rewarding Fields

Communication majors prepare for in-demand careers by choosing an area of academic concentration.

Communication Studies

This concentration emphasizes the role communication plays in shaping our reality in a variety of personal, social, cultural, and political settings.

Health Communication

Study communication as it relates to health professionals, health education, and the experience of health by individuals, families, and cultures.

Media Studies and Production

Prepare to critically, technically, and creatively engage with communication technologies of the 21st century.

Multimedia Journalism

Learn the bedrock skills of news reporting and writing and acquire the technical capacity to report and tell stories using audio, visual, and textua