Communication Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)

• Multi-contextual oral competency - communication students should research, invent, arrange and deliver original messages for intended audiences.

• Critical thinking - communication students should understand, apply and critique theory and research in human communication.

• Interpersonal skills - communication students should understand the dynamics of face-to-face and mediated social relationships and how relationships are inflected by social structural factors such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality.

• Organizational skills - communication students should become effective contributing members of human organizations.

• Media literacy - communication students should understand media institutions, technology, content and audiences.

• Intercultural skills - communication students should understand the diversity of communication practices within different cultural contexts.