Why Study Communication?

What is Communication Studies?
Career Opportunities
Student Testimonials
Alumni Success
Mission & Values

Communication Studies at UNC Greensboro explores human communication as a means of connecting people, creating change, and working toward a just world.

Recent alumni hold roles in public relations, event planning, marketing and sales, real estate, project management, insurance, fundraising and development, and advocacy.

What Is Communication Studies?

According to the National Communication Association:

“At its foundation, Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, and is the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.”

Learn about the history of the discipline from NCA.

Learn more about communication studies from our own students and professors.

Undergraduate Program
Graduate Program

What Can You do With a Communication Studies Degree?

Besides going on to be effective citizens in their relationships, families, workplaces and communities, there are some broad patterns of career choice that our graduated tend to follow. We have been tracking our students and what they go on to do as part of our departmental assessment processes. They do go in a wide variety of directions including but not limited to:

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  • Public relations
  • Marketing and advertising
  • Journalism
  • Special events planning
  • Human Resources
  • Nonprofit management
  • Sales
  • Training
  • Fundraising and development
  • Law school
  • Graduate school

“At its foundation, Communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, and is the discipline that studies all forms, modes, media, and consequences of communication through humanistic, social scientific, and aesthetic inquiry.

National Communication Association (NCA)
Learn about the history of the discipline from NCA.

Student Testimonials

“The CST Department at UNCG introduced me to so many different people and experiences that I wouldn’t have been able to be a part of otherwise. It opened my eyes to what it truly means to be a part of a community. The experiences that I got to participate in through the CST Department helped shape me into who I am today.”

–Jasmine Palmer, B.A. and M.A. in Communication Studies, 2019 and 2020

“The CST Department provides a rich engagement with community and an approach to classes that emphasizes both theoretical and practical approaches to communication.”

–Gabriel Wisnewski-Parks, B.A. and M.A. in Communication Studies, 2020 and 2022

“As a Communication Studies major, you will build strong leadership abilities, learn how to collaborate effectively in diverse groups, strengthen your presentation skills and enhance your ability to write in a professional format. The skills that you will gain as a Communication Studies major will provide you with the opportunity to excel in more ways than you ever thought possible.”

–Chrissy Beanblossom, 2013 graduate of UNCG’s Department of Communication Studies

Alumni Success Stories

Kayla Maynarich

January 24, 2025

Kayla Maynarich – B.A. 2009

I chose to major in Communication Studies at UNC Greensboro because I felt that effective communication skills would give me a leadi…

Zithobile Nxumalo

January 24, 2025

Zithobile Nxumalo – M.A. 2011

Zithobile Nxumalo, MA, 2011, decided to pursue her graduate degree in Communication Studies after earning her BS in Business Managem…

Nicholas Turner

January 24, 2025

Nicholas Turner – B.A. 2012

My name is Nick Turner, and I am currently the Human Resources Generalist for Iredell Memorial Hospital in Statesville, North C…

Mission & Values

Department Mission

We teach and research communication to connect people, create change, and work toward a just world.

Commitments

  • We engage communication knowledge to understand, advance, and challenge human interaction processes locally and globally.
  • We promote the centrality of communication to personal, professional, and public lives.
  • We seek to invigorate our collective moral imagination to build a world of hope, justice, and peace.
  • We engage pressing social and relational issues through written and spoken communication, active research and teaching, and involvement in the world around us.
  • We foster learning and application of communication knowledge and skill to transform relationships and communities.
  • We affirm, practice, and teach service and community engagement.
  • We teach the art of living well together.

Values

We actively value and promote:

Honesty • Trust • Respect • Fairness • Responsibility • Care • Ethics • Justice • Courage • Equality • Creativity • Compassion • Engagement • Critical Thinking • Holistic Thinking • Incremental Thinking • Learner-centered practice • Independence • Interdependence • Difference • Relationships • Connection • Self-discipline • Focus • Service

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