Student Learning Goals
What should students know and/or be able to do at the end of their program?
- Multi-contextual oral competency–communication students should research, invent, arrange and deliver original messages for intended audiences.
- Critical thinking–communication students should understand, apply and critique theory and research in human communication.
- Interpersonal skills–communication students should understand the dynamics of face-to-face and mediated social relationships and how relationships are inflected by social structural factors such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.
- Organizational skills–communication students should become effective contributing members of human organizations.
- Media literacy–communication students should understand media institutions, technology, content and audiences.
- Intercultural skills–communication students should understand the diversity of communication practices within different cultural contexts.
Professional Organizations/Standards that informed development of learning outcomes: National Communication Association, Lambda Pi Eta Honor Society, National Forensics Association