Department of Communication Studies2023-10-10T17:47:07-04:00

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COMMUNICATION STUDIES

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The Department of Communication Studies at the University of Miami School of Communication empowers students to develop advanced skills in cross-cultural communication, leadership, argumentation, oral and written presentations, critical thinking, research, relationship building, and more – skills that can be used in any field or career.

Communication Studies students have the opportunity to conduct important research on a number of topics and are challenged to apply communication skills through hands-on experiential learning and professional internships. Our outstanding professors prepare students for many different careers, including politics, public advocacy, health care promotion, business, and intercultural education, or to pursue graduate or law school.

SPECIAL TOPICS COURSES

Please consider the following Special Topics course offerings from the Department of Cinematic Arts. Consult Canelink, the instructor of record, and/or your academic advisor for more information.

COM 406 + REL 406 section 1TPersuasion, Propaganda & Genocide: This course examines how governments, and the cultures and societies that support them, create discourses that make it plausible for citizens to harm, degrade, and murder other citizens. We will take both a comparative and methodological approach to understanding how to answer this basic question.  We will explore contemporary theories and modes of persuasion and propaganda and apply them to selected historical and contemporary cases of genocide.  We also will attempt to identify approaches to preventing mass atrocities.

COM 609 section 1PMedia Reception Studies: This graduate-level course covers a broad range of approaches to qualitative media reception studies. Focused on the ways “real people” interact with and use media, this course covers both “classic” and contemporary considerations of media reception. Course topics include discussions of methodologies for gathering information about reception, the importance of identities to reception, and fans and fan behaviors. This course is not for people who hold the text, and its alleged meanings sacred. We will focus on what people do with media, not necessarily what academic scholars might think they ought to do.

COS 391/691 section 5RCommunication in Romantic Relationships: Research and theory organized around the inextricable link between communication processes (including message production and reception) and the development of romantic/intimate relationships emerged under the rubric “relational communication” in the early to mid-1980’s.

COS 391/691 section 5TCommunication in Romantic Relationships: Research and theory organized around the inextricable link between communication processes (including message production and reception) and the development of romantic/intimate relationships emerged under the rubric “relational communication” in the early to mid-1980’s.

LATEST NEWS

Distinguished Scholar and Author, Ronald L. Jackson II, Joining Faculty Roster in Spring 2024

December 6, 2023|

Distinguished scholar and award-winning author, Ronald L. Jackson II, is joining the University of Miami School of Communication faculty in spring 2024. Jackson, a former dean of Arts and Sciences, and past president of the National Communication Association (NCA) and Eastern Communication Association (ECA), comes to us from the University of Cincinnati where he was a Distinguished University Research Professor. He held [...]

Featured Projects

A few of our communication studies projects, all done by our very own students and faculty.

Faculty

Nicholas Carcioppolo

Nicholas
Carcioppolo

n.carcioppolo@miami.edu
(305) 284-5633
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Valerie
Giroux

vgiroux@miami.edu
(305) 284-2424
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Tyler
Harrison

harrison@miami.edu
(305) 284-3709
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Ronald
Jackson

ron.jackson@miami.edu
(305) 284-4539
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Diane Millette

Diane
Millette

millette@miami.edu
(305) 284-2340
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Susan E.
Morgan

semorgan@miami.edu
(305) 284-3752
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Victoria
Orrego

vorrego@miami.edu
(305) 284-3052
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David
Steinberg

dave@miami.edu
(305) 284-5553
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Patrick
Waldinger

waldinger@miami.edu
(305) 284-8084
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Dean Karin Wilkins

Karin
Wilkins

kwilkins@miami.edu
305-284-3420
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Kallia
Wright

kallia.wright@miami.edu
(305) 284-1075
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