A program that focuses on the analysis and criticism of media institutions and media texts, how people experience and understand media content, and the roles of media in producing and transforming culture. Includes instruction in communications regulation, law, and policy; media history; media aesthetics, interpretation, and criticism; the social and cultural effects of mass media; cultural studies; the economics of media industries; visual and media literacy; and the psychology and behavioral aspects of media messages, interpretation, and utilization.
| Major | Graduates | Colleges |
| Speech Communication and Rhetoric | 31,370 | 563 |
| Communication, General | 9,904 | 235 |
| Communication and Media Studies, Other | 1,780 | 94 |