Become a effective communicator and skilled listener. Communication

Why Wheaton for Communication?

Across every industry and medium, effective communication comes down to connecting with your audience—clearly and authentically. From shaping stories for the media to crafting internal documents, creating marketing materials, representing clients, conducting focus groups, pitching ideas, relating to friends or family, or preparing remarks from the pulpit or the podium—and from planning to editing to oversight—every step is about one thing: connecting with your target audience that matters

With a firm foundation in both communication theory and research methods, all communication students take additional coursework in three essential areas:

• Collaboration & Interpersonal Relationships: Explore how meaning develops between people in personal, social, and workplace relationships, contributing to growth, opportunity, empowerment, and connection.
• Media, Culture & Performance: Engage with the world of symbols and meanings, texts and contexts, form and content from performative, critical, and cultural perspectives in order to be a more intentional creator and consumer of culture.
• Strategic Messages: Construct other-centered messages that reflect an awareness of and adaptation to specific audiences and diverse communication contexts.  

Students customize their program of study, choosing courses that align with their vocational goals. Our faculty work with students in selecting courses that best align with their vocational path. There isn’t one career path for a communication graduate.  Instead, students who graduate with a communication degree land in wide variety of occupations—profit and non-profit institutions, advertising and advocacy work, ministry, and coaching. Our curriculum allows student flexibility to create pathways that capitalize on their gifts and abilities while providing skills and knowledge that translate to a host of occupations.

Strong, effective, and adaptable communicators that are shaped by Godly principles, driven by Biblical values, and guided by Christian virtues are essential. From our personal relationships to our public addresses, communication persists as an essential ingredient for a robust education.

What You’ll Learn

Sample Communication Courses

Exercise your creativity, expand your critical thinking skills, and hone your research, writing, and presentation abilities in a variety of core, elective, and special topics courses, including:

• Messages, Influence & Culture
• Visual Symbolism: Icons, Brands, Logos
• Argument & Debate
• Strategic Communication
• Group & Professional Communication
• Sport & Communication
• Media Effects: Sex, Violence & Politics
• Propaganda & Image
• Rhetoric of Rap Music
• Political Style
• Communication & Diversity
• Non-Profit Communication
• Intro to Acting
• Nonverbal Communication
• Interpersonal Development
• Media Production
• Journalism
• Persuasion

Faces and Spaces Where You'll Learn, Who You'll Meet

With Wheaton Opportunities Across Campus & Beyond

Interdisciplinary learning is a way of life at Wheaton. Aside from your work within your chosen major, you can enrich your educational experience and connect with peers and professors across campus (and beyond) in many ways.

Success After Wheaton What You Can Do With a Communication Degree

A degree in communication is incredibly versatile. Our alumni continue to illustrate how skilled communicators are needed at every level of every organization in nearly every industry. In partnership with our Center for Vocation and Career, Wheaton Communication majors find a wide variety of jobs not limited to the communication field.

RESOURCES & LINKS Dig Deeper

If you want to dig deeper in this area of study or you're a current student needing resources, here is some additional information to explore.