Become a effective communicator and skilled listener. Communication

Why Wheaton for Communication?

Clear and effective communication spans industries and mediums. Whether you’re writing and producing stories for the media, generating internal company documents, creating marketing materials, speaking on behalf of clients, conducting a focus group, making a sales pitch, or preparing remarks for an event—or planning, editing, or overseeing any of the above—it’s all about connecting with your target audience. 

Find Your Focus: Three Content Areas

The Communication major offers three distinct content 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.  

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 types of jobs not limited to just 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.