Become a effective communicator and skilled listener. Communication

Why Wheaton for Communication?

Clear and effective communication spans industries and mediums. Whether you’re writing and producing stories for the media, generating internal company documents, creating marketing materials, speaking on behalf of clients, conducting a focus group, making a sales pitch, or preparing remarks for an event—or planning, editing, or overseeing any of the above—it’s all about connecting with your target audience. 

Find Your Focus: Communication Concentrations

Wheaton’s flexible communication curriculum allows you to explore your interests before choosing a concentration. As you take foundation courses and participate in cocurricular activities, you’ll learn more about yourself—and likely discover God’s vocational calling for you. From there, you can customize your coursework based on your career goals.

• Interpersonal Communication Concentration
  Explore human dynamics—interaction between friends, partners, relatives, neighbors, colleagues, and people we just met. You’ll also learn about communication among teams and within organizations.
• Media Studies Concentration
  Through a mix of theory and production classes, you’ll gain an understanding of how messages are created, shaped, shared, and consumed. A media studies concentration is also an excellent foundation for graduate study.
• Rhetoric and Culture Concentration
  This concentration is all about creating conversations that change culture. It’s ideal for pre-law students and those interested in ministry, teaching, and advocacy work.
• Theater Concentration
  Words. Actions. Audience. Theater IS communication. Whether you want to join the the cast or chorus, build a world through set design, or write or direct a script, you’re an important part of the performance.

What You’ll Learn

Sample Communication Courses

Exercise your creativity, expand your critical thinking skills, and hone your research, writing, and presentation abilities in a variety of core, elective, and special topics courses, including:

• Digital Society
• Group Dynamics
• The Rhetoric of Equality
• Sport and Communication
• Visual Symbolism: Icons, Brands, Logos
• Church and Theater
• Public Advocacy

Faces and Spaces Where You'll Learn, Who You'll Meet

With Wheaton Opportunities Across Campus & Beyond

Interdisciplinary learning is a way of life at Wheaton. Aside from your work within your chosen major, you can enrich your educational experience and connect with peers and professors across campus (and beyond) in many ways.

Success After Wheaton What You Can Do With a Communication Degree

A degree in communication is incredibly versatile. Our alumni continue to illustrate how skilled communicators are needed at every level of every organization in nearly every industry. In partnership with our Center for Vocation and Career, Wheaton Communication majors find a wide variety of types of jobs not limited to just the communication field.

RESOURCES & LINKS Dig Deeper

If you want to dig deeper in this area of study or you're a current student needing resources, here is some additional information to explore.