
Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies







About Bachelor of Arts - Communication Studies
Program Description
In many professions, the need for communication skills has never been more critical. Employers consistently cite communication skills as a major requirement for success in professional careers. A major in communication studies can help students acquire and learn to use those skills effectively.
Students of communication studies learn to analyze written, oral, visual, and electronic messages from historical, critical, and social science perspectives. They also learn to produce such messages as a means of artistic and functional expression.
Communication studies is one of the most popular majors at Iowa. Students develop the knowledge and skills to meet today's increasingly complex communication challenges.
Iowa’s program will help students understand how face-to-face and media-based communications influence and shape everyday lives, including social interaction, work, public opinion, economic activities, and politics. Students will learn how to analyze and evaluate communication practices critically and how to use practical oral, written, and visual communication. Students will also prepare to move into any number of professions in which students will use effective communication skills to engage with other people.
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