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The department offers a truly flexible curriculum that enables students to tailor a major to their particular communication career interests. The entire faculty is highly trained in their areas of expertise, which include communication law, international issues in the field of public relations, using global computer networks in journalism and other areas of communication, digital video/audio editing and production, and public speaking/debate.
Communication students, beginning with their freshman year, have access to the department's television and radio production facilities, its advanced digital video/audio editing workstations, and computer-equipped visual design and news writing labs.
Internships are required of all Communication majors and can be completed during a summer at a hometown television or radio station, newspaper, or public relations agency. Or, during the academic year, students can elect to choose an internship from nearly 100 area and national providers: WLJE, WGN, WSBT, WNDU, the Washington Times, C-SPAN, MCA Music, Sony, Ogilvie and Mather Worldwide PR, Phoenix Art Museum, Lutheran Homes Society, World Cup Soccer, Milwaukee Public Museum, Shedd Aquarium, the American Red Cross, and many others.
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The department has been an area pioneer in the offering of courses online, where most instruction takes place via the Internet. The department has also been a leader in Internet instructional applications, and in preparing students for competency in this fastest growing of all communication media.
The department also regularly sponsors class presentations by returning alumni, where majors hear about the latest in job-searching strategies and media developments across the communication industries.