The diversity, culture, and global communication emphasis area focuses on the role of communication in constituting identity in a complex and diverse world. Students who engage this emphasis area will learn how we come to identify and understand difference, how power is constituted, and perpetuated in communication processes, how people organize in ways that enable and constrain voice, and how marginalized groups can (re)claim power in local/global contexts. Students completing this emphasis area will tailor their upper-level Communication Studies courses to this content area.
Select four of the 3xx level classes below:
- COMM 311 – Intercultural and Intergroup Communication
- COMM 335 – Rhetorics of Race and Empire
- COMM 357 – Paranoia and Polarization in Digital Culture
- COMM 360 – Intergroup Dialogue
- COMM 364 – Communication, Medicine, and Health Equity
- COMM 365 – Indigenous Communication
- COMM 368 – Communication and Aging
- COMM 380 – Gender and Communication
Select two of the 4xx level classes below:
- COMM 452 – Media and Culture
- COMM 456 – Communicating Global Health
- COMM 462 – Feminist Media Studies
- COMM 465 – Communication and Social Identity
- COMM 482 – Voices of Dissent and Activism