Communication Studies
The Communication Studies Department’s dynamic undergraduate curriculum and flexible requirements allow students to forge a distinctive niche within the vast and varied communication landscape, while our diverse professional network affords a wide spectrum of co-op and experiential learning opportunities, in Boston and around the world—enabling students to gain practical experience and build connections that will form the cornerstones of a successful career after graduation.
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Welcome to the Department of Communication Studies. How we communicate interpersonally, digitally and through mass media is central to almost any human endeavor.
Maria Elena Villar
Chair, Department of Communication Studies
Co-ops and Student Opportunties
Learn more about the co-op program, travel study opportunities, internships, and other opportunities to get involved.
Student Work Highlights
Invisible
Communication Studies
Watch the short film created in MSCR 1230: Introduction to Film Production
Theoretical Analysis of State-Wide Opioid Campaign
Communication Studies
This project studied the effectiveness of an opiod awareness campaign. This analysis showed that the campaign struggled to communicate the aspects of the Health Belief Model necessary to prompt behavior change.
Dream
Communication Studies
Watch Sophia Huang's short film, "Dream," created in the Introduction to Film class.
Health Campaign Message Design & Snapchat Geofilte
Communication Studies
Susan Mello, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Class: COMM 4102 Health Communication Campaigns Spring 2018
What if?
Communication Studies
Class: MSCR 1230 Introduction to Film Production sec. 2 Instructor: Seth Mulliken, Assistant Teaching Professor Spring 2018
Health Campaign Message Design & Snapchat Geofilte
Communication Studies
Susan Mello, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Class: COMM 4102 Health Communication Campaigns Spring 2018
What if?
Communication Studies
Class: MSCR 1230 Introduction to Film Production sec. 2 Instructor: Seth Mulliken, Assistant Teaching Professor Spring 2018
Invisible
Communication Studies
Watch the short film created in MSCR 1230: Introduction to Film Production
Theoretical Analysis of State-Wide Opioid Campaign
Communication Studies
This project studied the effectiveness of an opiod awareness campaign. This analysis showed that the campaign struggled to communicate the aspects of the Health Belief Model necessary to prompt behavior change.
Dream
Communication Studies
Watch Sophia Huang's short film, "Dream," created in the Introduction to Film class.
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What if?
Communication Studies
Class: MSCR 1230 Introduction to Film Production sec. 2 Instructor: Seth Mulliken, Assistant Teaching Professor Spring 2018
Invisible
Communication Studies
Watch the short film created in MSCR 1230: Introduction to Film Production
Theoretical Analysis of State-Wide Opioid Campaign
Communication Studies
This project studied the effectiveness of an opiod awareness campaign. This analysis showed that the campaign struggled to communicate the aspects of the Health Belief Model necessary to prompt behavior change.
Dream
Communication Studies
Watch Sophia Huang's short film, "Dream," created in the Introduction to Film class.
Health Campaign Message Design & Snapchat Geofilte
Communication Studies
Susan Mello, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Class: COMM 4102 Health Communication Campaigns Spring 2018
Featured Courses
This course aims to study and increase your level of proficiency in group interaction, with a focus on small group decision-making processes, problem-solving, and the interpersonal dynamics of groups. Topics include communication dynamics, systems thinking, dialogue, conflict management, leadership, power, teams, and learning organizations.
This course explores the multiple and complicated ways in which our lives and ways of thinking are impacted by what things we decide to keep and how we organize access to them, i.e., storage. Using readings, podcasts, short films, and TV shows, the course uses the idea of storage to explore the Cloud and other contemporary media “containers” and what the future of storage holds as we try to find space and time to store and retrieve our data, memories, clothes, food, and more.
What’s happening in Comm Studies
Professor Alan Zaremba's New Book Published by Kendall Hunt
Associate Professor of Communication Studies Alan Zaremba's new book on sports ethics was published by Kendall Hunt.
October 30, 2025
Professor Craig Robertson Publishes Book about Rocker Chris Knox
Craig Robertson, Professor of Communication Studies, publishes his book on indie rocker Chris Knox with Auckland University Press.
October 29, 2025
CTM Director Appointed ICA Mobile Communication Division Chair
Congratulations to Adriana de Souza e Silva on being appointed Chair of The International Communication Association's Mobile Communication Division! Her tenure as Chair of the Division will run from 2025-2027.
September 26, 2025
'The Brutalist' used AI. Is that a bad thing?
Communication studies professor Rupal Patel and Rebecca Kleinberger, assistant professor of music, provide insight into why this Oscar-contender used AI to enhance the Hungarian spoken by Adrian Brody and Felicity Jones.
January 23, 2025
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