Communication Studies Department
Department of Communication Studies
The Department of Communication Studies is a vibrant program focused on teaching, service, and scholarship. Communication courses provide a strong foundation for your education while introducing communication theory, practicing communication principals, investigating how we interact with others, analyzing how we behave when joining an organization, studying how spirituality influences communication, and considering how popular culture impacts our daily lives.
Communication Studies Mission & Values
The Department of Communication Studies prepares students to be intellectually curious, go into the world informed by Jesuit values, and contribute meaningfully to their communities and professions. Within our program, students will analyze, craft, and evaluate communication messages and understand communication as a set of everyday practices that are mindful, purposeful, and strategic. Students learn to ask good questions and find the answers about meaningful problems in our society, our workplaces and our personal lives. In our major capstone sequence, all students conduct a senior research project, complete an internship and reflect on the role of communication in their work, and connect communication with Jesuit values of service and justice. Our program offers flexibility in terms of choices of projects, service, and work experiences, giving students a chance to pursue a wide variety of occupations or graduate programs pursuant to their particular talents, callings, and interests. Our graduates are able to embrace and act on complex problems in groups, organizations, relationships, and cultures.
Communication Studies Volunteer at Project Homeless Connect Omaha in 2016
Communication Studies students and faculty joined together to volunteer at Project Homeless Connect Omaha on April 1, 2016. Watch the video to learn more about our department.
What You Can Do With a Communication Studies Degree
All students complete internships, where they apply what they have learned in the classroom to the real world. Communications studies majors have completed a number of unique internship positions through organizations including:
- Burlington Capital Group
- Make-A-Wish Foundation
- Salvation Army
- Target Corporation
- Gavilon
- Omaha Chamber of Commerce
- Nebraska Special Olympics
- Creighton Athletic Marketing
- Business Ethics Alliance
- KVSS Radio
All majors conduct an independent, senior research project for credit. Many of our students have presented their research at a variety of academic conferences.
The Communication Center
The Communication Center is a tutoring space on campus that often serves over 300 students a semester. Students and Instructors often look for information about our space (along with information about our major) on the website. Many of those students have high levels of anxiety and reading or finding information about our space helps calm those concerns so they can get the help they need. Right now, nothing about the Communication Center at Creighton is available.