Communication studies track
Knowing how to communicate well is important in any career, and in this program, you will sharpen your skills in verbal, nonverbal and written communication through an expansive set of experiential and elective classes.
Program strengths
- Provides a well-rounded understanding of rhetoric and audience awareness
- Award-winning speech and debate team gives you the opportunity to practice your oral communication skills by delivering a message confidently, concisely, and persuasively in front of an audience
- Experiential courses allow you to begin practicing skills within your first semester
Curriculum
Each class is designed to bring you a wealth of different learning objectives in communication and knowledge that will be useful for an almost unlimited number of career paths. Courses include:
- Public Address & Criticism
- Political Communication
- Interpersonal Communication
- Argumentation & Debate
- Persuasion
- Intercultural Communication
experiential learning
In Speech and Debate Team (Com 130), the communication studies experiential course, you will be a part of the UIndy Speech and Debate Team and apply such skills as writing, public speaking, argumentation and persuasion. Our speech and debate team is a proud, award-winning body of students from a variety of majors. Students compete around the state and nation in a variety of events, including:
- Impromptu and extemporaneous speaking
- Persuasive, informative, and after dinner speaking
- Prose, poetry, duo, and dramatic interpretation
We offer a number of scholarships for students enrolled in the Speech and Debate Team experiential course. See Speech and debate Team scholarship
Potential Careers in communication studies
Communication studies focuses on some of the most transferable job skills and provides a wide variety of career options. Here are just a few options:
- Public speaker
- Entertainment talent
- Copywriting
- Communications coordinator
- Researcher
Curriculum Guides
These curriculum guides outline the classes you'll need to take as a communication major with a track in communication studies. The general education curriculum guide lists your class options and requirements to fulfill UIndy's general education requirements, while the communication curriculum guide lists the classes needed for the communication core and your track area. You'll need to look at both guides to get a complete picture of what classes you'll take at UIndy.