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Communication Studies Minor

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College of Liberal Arts (TCLA)

Program learning outcomes

Students will describe the communication discipline and its central questions

Students will employ communication theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts

Students will engage in communication inquiry 

Students will create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context

Students will critically analyze messages 

Students will demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals (self-efficacy)

Students will apply ethical communication principles and practices

Students will utilize communication to embrace difference

Students will influence public discourse

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