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Communication Arts and Sciences encompass verbal and nonverbal language symbols which are spoken, enacted, heard, and seen. To foster an understanding of the breadth and depth of “human meaning making,” the communication studies program includes courses from the orientations of both the social sciences and the humanities. In so doing, it prepares students to pursue their chosen professional areas. These selections may entail career paths that focus on specializations such as interpersonal communication, organizational communication, intercultural communication, mass communication, or the study of persuasion and rhetoric. The major is designed to build a foundation upon which a student may pursue professional work in law and politics, media organizations, education, business, technological industries, health care or social services.
Regardless of a student’s chosen area of concentration, a major in communication arts and sciences at Merrimack provides each student with the understanding that the study of communication is essential to all of society’s major issues, concerns, and the construction of values. Whether one is communicating with one’s self or through a mass medium, the knowledge of communication principles will enhance that endeavor.
