Welcome

The Department of Human Communication Studies is committed to high quality human relationships and to exploring the communicative conditions for ethics and justice in human sociality.

We are a teaching department that places high priority on making our own contributions to new knowledge about communication, and our scholarship variously follows both social scientific and humanistic approaches. We refuse to privilege one research method over another.

Throughout its history, the department has been intrigued by theory, yet we have never eschewed practical application. Just as we began a hundred years ago being proud to teach people to be good public speakers, today we are committed to advancing quality, ethics, and justice as outcomes of communication.

Dr. Bernadette Calafell

Assistant Professor

Dr. Bernadette Marie Calafell researches and teaches in the area of Culture and Communication. She is also the Director of Graduate Studies. She received her B.A. and M.A. in Communication Studies from Arizona State University and earned her Ph.D. in Communication Studies with an emphasis on Performance Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . . .

HCOM Major

The primary reason I chose to be a human communication major was because of its many diverse applications. I was originally a journalism major, but I decided that something with a broader and wider base of applications would be abetter choice . . .

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