Susquehanna Academics

Arts, Humanities and Communications: Communications

A major in communications includes seven possible areas of emphasis:

• Broadcasting
• Communications Studies
• Corporate Communications
• Journalism
• Mass Communication
• Public Relations
• Speech Communication

Our faculty are practicing writers and communications professionals. They take an active interest in your ability and creativity.

Opportunities for hands-on experience include a student newspaper, yearbook, literary magazine and Sterling Communications, a student-run public relations firm. Our student-run 12,000-watt FM radio station has one of the highest market shares of any campus station in the country.

The University's high-technology Apfelbaum Hall opened in the fall of 1999. The structure is headquarters for the Department of Communications and the Sigmund Weis School of Business and an information technologies learning resource for the entire campus. The building has been designed to encourage student-faculty collaboration and team-based projects.

Students gain experience in television production in studio and editing facilities. Two television studios provide opportunities in state-of-the-art production. Students learn real-time direction, studio camera techniques and how to create computer-generated graphics and special effects.