• Recognize the importance of communication across disciplines and professions;
  
  
• Understand core communication theories and concepts and apply them in their daily lives;
  
  
• Evaluate communication research studies critically;
  
  
• Demonstrate communication skills for a wide variety of contexts (interpersonal, organizational, intercultural, international) and purposes (informing, persuading, initiating and maintaining relationships)
  
  
• Research, develop, organize and deliver effective and ethical written and oral presentations.

Graduates with a major in interpersonal communication move easily into for profit, nonprofit, and governmental organizations. We maintain a notebook filled with our graduates’ business cards. These show what they are doing and where. Their business cards provide ample evidence that majoring in interpersonal communication is an important basis for moving onto a productive and profitable career path. Our graduates are employed in various exciting professional positions and careers, including: