Areas of Academic Strength
The College's graduate program emphasizes the following six areas of academic strength around which doctoral students and their committees may wish to organize the selection of courses and program plans:
- Critical and cultural studies
- International communications
- Law, government and politics
- Media effects
- Strategic communications
- Telecommunications, technology and information policy
These are not formal options and do not have required courses or dedicated faculty. Rather they represent areas of scholarly expertise of the College's graduate faculty. Doctoral students may—and are encouraged to—integrate coursework across more than one of these areas.