Communications Degree
Program Overview
A communications degree offers students the opportunity to gain a broad understanding of the media’s role in society, along with a highly specialized and personalized concentration in their area of professional interest – Broadcast and Social Media, Journalism, Video Game Design, or Visual and Brand Communications.
Students investigate and critically evaluate the past, present, and future of mass communications so that they are prepared to excel within its ever-changing structure and to produce changes within it. The program, which is practical in nature, utilizes hands-on courses with a theoretical foundation to provide students with a well-rounded education. Students develop a foundation in both the creation of media and comprehension of the effects and significance of media products that they create and consume.
Communications students (and students from other majors) have access to a 4+1 program, which leads to Master of Arts degree in Strategic Communications and provides a clear, competitive advantage for career advancement. During their final year of undergraduate coursework, King’s College students can enroll in the 4+1 program and complete courses in the online Master of Arts in Strategic Communication. The program is practical, high impact, and efficient. Students in the program are from around the globe and possess various undergraduate degrees, have diverse backgrounds, and work in a variety of fields. Classes run during accelerated sessions of semesters and are friendly for working professionals. After receiving their bachelor's degree, students who participate in the 4+1 can earn a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Communications in as few as three semesters.
What can you do with a communications degree?
Students who attended 91¸£Àû and majored in Mass Communications found careers in advertising and marketing (in corporate, agency and non-profit environments), social media and emerging technology firms, audio/visual companies, corporations (including those engaged in e-commerce), federal, state and local government, education, consumer and trade magazines, newspapers, television and radio stations. Our graduates are also entrepreneurs and consultants in various communications fields.
Mass Communications graduates are currently working at the SiriusXM, NFL, NBA, Booz Allen Hamilton, The Wall Street Journal, Google, CBS-1010 WINS, The Citizen's Voice, ABC, WILK-FM, Dave Matthews Band, and in higher education among many forms of industry.
Program Details
We guide students through track selection and career preparation. Professionals with extensive field experience often teach courses in their area of expertise. This offers students a strong advantage in the field as they prepare not only for their required internship, but also their future.
By acquiring effective communication skills–oral, written and visual–our graduates are prepared for careers in advertising, social media, video game design, public relations, journalism, television and radio production, graphic and web design, and photography. With the advent of the Internet, social media and electronic commerce, our majors also find employment in most any aspect of the corporate world, including sales and entrepreneurship.
A degree in Mass Communications from 91¸£Àû provides students with a broad, liberal arts education and a strong set of core values. Students are prepared to address the ethical considerations of this evolving field, and they are sensitive to the globalized and cross-cultural nature of Mass Communications in our world.
