communication department

The Department of Communication at Huntington University offers three exciting and growing areas of study that will prepare you academically and professionally for a career in communication or for further studies at the graduate level.

Communication students at Huntington University choose from three majors:

• communication studies 
• journalism 
• public relations 

 In addition, the Digital Media Arts Department offers a related programs in radio & television broadcasting, film production, film studies and animation.

In-depth study

Our program covers communication in its multifaceted dimensions — from nonverbal communication to the rhetoric of race, discourse analysis to public speaking and persuasion, conflict studies to media criticism, broadcast writing to public relations crisis management, cross-cultural communication to writing the journalistic news story and feature story, the history of mass communication to principles of communicating in organizations.

Career results

Our graduates forge successful careers in a wide range of media-based jobs — in public relations, radio and television, journalism — and in a wide variety of non-media areas that use communication as the central tool for accomplishing objectives — such as human resources, intercultural ministry and missions, information management, event coordination, and teaching.Our students also are well prepared for further studies in graduate school.

Come visit us!

 Consider visiting us during our fall semester or spring semester Communication Visit Day (usually in late October and early March).