What can you do with a communications degree and what does each type of degree (ie communications and rhetorical, media and communications) mean?
Communication studies:
An academic field that deals with processes of human communication. The discipline encompasses a range of topics, from face-to-face conversation to mass media outlets such as television broadcasting. Communication studies also examines how messages are interpreted through the political, cultural, economic, semiotic, hermeneutic, and social dimensions of their contexts.
-From Wikipedia
Speech Communication:
A program that focuses on the scientific, humanistic, and critical study of human communication in a variety of formats, media, and contexts. Includes instruction in the theory and practice of interpersonal, group, organizational, professional, and intercultural communication; speaking and listening; verbal and nonverbal interaction; rhetorical theory and criticism; performance studies; argumentation and persuasion; technologically mediated communication; popular culture; and various contextual applications.
- From MyMajors
Rhetoric:
The art of discourse. Rhetoric majors learn to speak and write to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations. Closely related to law and politics. Critical thinking and philosophy are heavily involved.
Major in Rhetoric
Communication and Rhetoric
Mass Communications*:
The study of how individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time. It is usually understood to relate to newspaper, magazine, and book publishing, as well as radio, television and film, as these mediums are used for disseminating information, news and advertising.
-From Wikipedia
*Closely related to Journalism
Media Studies
Deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the “mass media”. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass communication, communication, communication sciences and communication studies. Researchers may also develop and employ theories and methods from disciplines including cultural studies, rhetoric (including digital rhetoric), philosophy, literary theory, psychology, political science, political economy, economics, sociology, anthropology, social theory, art history and criticism, film theory, feminist theory, and information theory.
-From Wikipedia
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