College of Informatics

Department of Communication

About the Department of Communication

How many times have you checked your e-mail today?  Have you texted your best friend yet?  Have you added anyone new to your instant messenger? Communicated to umpteen friends on MySpace or untold masses on YouTube?

These skills are the building blocks that could lead to a career in communications, a field where students with strong technology backgrounds have a clear advantage.

We give you the edge

Housed within the College of Informatics, the NKU Department of Communication provides the tools you need to have an edge in a variety of fields.  Graduates have gone on to become newspaper editors, television producers, human resource managers, public relations executives and web designers.

We give you options

You can specialize in digital video production, desktop publishing, public speaking, feature writing, digital photography and multimedia presentations, as well as reporting, persuasion, conflict resolution, popular culture or interpersonal communication.

The department offers courses in:

Students also have the option to minor in:

We build community

The Department of Communication engages in many outreach efforts that you can be a part of, like helping professor Chris Strobel produce videos to be shown at fundraising dinners for the Ronald McDonald Foundation or designing websites and producing fundraising and informational videos for service organizations that operate food pantries, resale shops and after-school care programs. On a similar note, professor Anthony Deiter is taking community service to a new level. As an Aboriginal contemporary storyteller, he uses 3-D digital animation and other computer technology to tell the story of North America's Aboriginal people. He wants to "close the digital divide in Native American/First Nations communities."

Nights, weekends or online

For those seeking an advanced degree in communication, students can enroll in the Master’s in Communication program, which offers night, weekend and online classes taught by award-winning faculty.

We want to see you succeed, and we will work with you one-on-one to make sure it happens.

Your career in communications has already begun.

Think about that the next time you check your e-mail.
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