The communication graduate program at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ emphasizes three areas of specialization:ÌýCommunity andÌýSocial Interaction,ÌýOrganizational CommunicationÌý²¹²Ô»åÌýRhetoric and Culture.
Each of those areas is comprised of core graduate faculty members.
Community and Social Interaction
Faculty and students in this area consider ways that practices and processes of interaction in natural contexts create, sustain, and change sociocultural scenes, particularly communities. For theses and dissertations, students select a theoretical issue about social interaction and/or community that crosses contexts, and/or study social interaction within a specific social site.
Faculty members teaching and researching in this area are widely recognized for critical and interpretive scholarship on the constitutive role of communication in human organizing.Ìý
The rhetoric and culture area offers a distinctive program that integrates contemporary rhetorical approaches with cultural studies and the interpretive turn in social science. Area members are linked by a common interest in historical and historically inflected studies of rhetoric and its media, including discourses, technologies and bodies.
Community and Social Interaction Graduate Faculty
Organizational Communication Graduate Faculty
Rhetoric and Culture Graduate Faculty
