Mission and Vision

Mission and Vision

To assist students in developing critical thinking skills through a disciplined process of actively and skillfully applying, analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication.

To provide students with knowledge of basic human communication, to include normal and abnormal processes within the domains of biological, psychological, developmental and culturally and linguistically based functions.

To provide students with the knowledge of communication philosophy which examines the ontological, epistemological, existential implications of the fact that humans are communicative beings and the symbolically mediated exchange of ideas, beliefs, information and attitudes is essential to defining individuals, groups, organizations, and institutions

To encourage scholarly publications and creative productions.

To provide instruction in the major theories of communication and the relevance of these theories to the students’ concentration.

To provide students with the knowledge of ethical dimensions of communicative acts ranging from classical Aristotelian ethics to the numerous points of ethical contact that exist in human communication today.

To encourage the use of technologies associated with communication and how these technologies are used in the students’ concentration, particularly the technical applications necessary in the disciplines of communication sciences and disorders and health communication for diagnosis and treatment of future clients.