Welcome to UST's Communication & Journalism Department

In our department, we study all forms of communication – interpersonal, organizational, intercultural, and mass-mediated through advertising, journalism and public relations. We create effective messages with words, images and sounds that are presented as speeches, news stories and advertising campaigns, just to name a few. We study the processes by which messages are sent and received so that we understand the effects and meanings of messages.

Courses in our department prepare students for a variety of careers in advertising, corporate communication, digital and electronic media production, journalism (in print, broadcast and web-based organizations), organizational communication, public relations and more.

Our students will take a core of courses that give them basic competence in writing and speaking, and then will work with their faculty advisors to select courses that help them specialize in a particular area of communication. All our students will end their major with a capstone seminar in Communication Ethics, which ensures they understand how ethical principles apply to all forms of communication and are ready as professionals to work toward the common good.