Communication and Media Studies
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About Communication and Media Studies at St. Norbert College
The communication faculty and students at St. Norbert College study the uniquely human ability to create, use and abuse symbols. The communication faculty and students engage in a cooperative learning approach to gain an understanding of the nature and function of spoken and written language within personal and mediated contexts. An integral part of the communication curricula is to trace the historical theoretical development and contemporary applications of myriad human symbol systems.
Why study
Communication and Media Studies
?
The program is designed to meet three major objectives:
1) an integrated study of several areas of communication, with special attention to theory and principles;
2) the development of scholarly and technical communication skills and
3) the development of professional values through an understanding of ethical issues in communication.
The objectives are met by courses focusing on the process and effects of various kinds of communication, by those which develop particular skills (for example, courses in media writing, business and professional speaking), and by history and analysis courses dealing with a variety of communication issues. The skills courses, in particular, are designed to help students prepare for professional careers.
Students select an area of concentration (communication or media), but have contact with the other area through required and elective courses.This accomplishes a major purpose of the program, that of providing a degree of specialization within a general communication curriculum. In addition, the content of the program's courses draws students' attention to the many connections between Communication and the content of other disciplines in the College.
The program offers two majors, Communication and Media Studies and Speech Communication with Secondary Certification and three minors.
Mission statement
The mission of the Communication and Media Studies discipline is to provide an excellent education that is personally, intellectually and spiritually challenging.
By personally, we mean the development and appreciation for those qualities that enable students to foster meaningful relationships in their academic, personal and professional lives.
By intellectually, we mean the development of those qualities which enable students to recognize, describe, analyze, synthesize and critique those elements in the global society that are shaped and influenced by human symbol systems.
By spiritually, we mean the evolution of those qualities that enable students to look within themselves at their role in the microcontext of St. Norbert College's Judeo-Christian values and the macrocontext of a diverse world of opposing and complementary perspectives.
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