Thinking about pursuing graduate work in Communication Studies or a related field?
Graduate programs in the fields of Communication Studies and Media Studies span humanistic and social scientific approaches to the study of communication, media and technology; they also span academic and more professionally oriented programs. Academic programs in the field also spread the gamut in terms of methodological approaches and theoretical traditions. In fact, there are almost as many kinds of Communication Studies graduate programs as there are graduate programs in the field. The nomenclature used to identify the field is almost as varied: Communication Studies graduate work can be found in Film schools, Cultural Studies programs, Media Studies programs, Communications Research programs, departments of Speech Communication, colleges of Communications, programs in Communication and Culture, departments of Radio/Television/Film, schools of Journalism, and programs in Communication Arts, among others. While the name of a program can tell you a little bit about what is being offe
