Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies

Students can examine the process of human communication, including creating, delivering and receiving both verbal and nonverbal messages. They can analyze how face-to-face, public, and media-based communication messages influence and shape everyday life and public opinion.

At Albion College, students will study the very process that makes people human: communication. The undergraduate program provides them with opportunities to develop the skills and knowledge necessary to meet the complex communication challenges of the 21st century whether in the workplace, in everyday life or just as a well-rounded thinking citizen. The program prepares them to move into any number of professions where people are required to engage with one another using effective communication skills. Students will learn how people use communication in everything they do from professors and instructors with expertise in many fields of communication, including interpersonal communication, health communication, sport communication, political communication, environmental communication, mass communication, and more.

Students will learn to critically analyze and evaluate communication practices and be able to apply practical oral, written, and visual communication skills and knowledge. Students will engage in discussion-based learning, and, through assignments and research, they will apply the theories and processes they learn to the world around them. Most importantly, they will develop excellent skills in critical thinking that will serve them well in any career.