Program Overview

Program Overview

The university program in Arts in Landscape Design is designed to develop cultural awareness and critical thinking skills, enabling students to analyze and produce a broad range of discourse in various careers.

Program Details

• Duration: 2 Years
• Delivery: Onsite
• Intakes: January, April, June, October

Overview of Communication Studies

Communication studies addresses the ways in which words, images, gestures, and symbols reflect and affect human behavior. The program explores the many ways that communication can be used to effect change in culture, law, politics, business, and every other realm in which people express themselves.

Career Opportunities

Graduates work and intern in a range of jobs in fields such as:

• Public relations
• Marketing
• Advertising
• Social media
• Television
• Radio
• Magazines
• Human resources
• Event planning
• Education
• Nonprofits
• Technology

Some graduates also start their own businesses or go on to graduate school in communication, law, public health, strategic communications, and education.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate an understanding of how communication shapes patterns of social interaction, cultural values and norms, political practices, and relations of power.
• Use methodological tools to analyze interpersonal, intercultural, and rhetorical discourse.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the possibilities, problems, and history of discourse and deliberation in democracy.

Programme Structure

Semester 1

• Rhetoric & the Public Sphere (4 credits, ESTU 203)
• Communication & Everyday Life (2 credits, ESTU 340)
• Critical & Rhetorical Methods (4 credits, ESTU 657)

Semester 2

• Relational Communication (4 credits, ESTU 768)
• Public Relations Campaigns (4 credits, ESTU 432)
• Rhetoric of Social Movements (2 credits, ESTU 873)

Semester 3

• Rhetoric & the Public Sphere (4 credits, ESTU 203)
• Communication & Everyday Life (2 credits, ESTU 340)
• Critical & Rhetorical Methods (4 credits, ESTU 657)

Semester 4

• Relational Communication (4 credits, ESTU 768)
• Public Relations Campaigns (4 credits, ESTU 432)
• Rhetoric of Social Movements (2 credits, ESTU 873)

Total credits for the entire period of study: 40

Degree Requirements

Details on degree requirements are available upon request.

Faculty

Information on faculty members is available through the university's academic department.