Undergraduate Students in the Department of Communication Studies receive a broad-based liberal arts education, designed to equip them for life in the 21st Century, including the need to adapt to a rapidly changing workplace and the likelihood of more than one career. The major encompasses many facets of verbal and nonverbal, visual, electronic, and computer-mediated communication. Along with courses in communication studies, the major requires courses in the arts and humanities, the social sciences, and history and a minor/second major/interdisciplinary certificate.