The Communication department seeks to provide students the opportunity to: understand and appreciate the power of language, image and presentation in shaping private, public and corporate opinion; to learn to apply language, image and presentation in a broad range of critical and cultural areas; and to become ethical professionals in the broad areas of mass communication. Communication majors are required to select a concentration as their main area of study within the department and take five required courses in that area.

Communication skills are relevant to many different professions. Some careers of interest to communication majors include: Advertising executive Public relations executive Journalist Copywriter Commentator Editor Market research analyst Media specialist Online content developer Television producer Publisher Reporter Television news anchor Speech writer Technical writer Television director Video production specialist