The Department of Communication currently offers broad-based curricula leading to Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees. They cover various areas of communication studies (communication theory, intercultural communication, organizational communication, communication skills); vocationally-oriented public communication (public relations, advertising, event planning); media studies and journalism (journalism writing and publication, mass media, new media, digital culture);

Prof. Benjamin Kidder Hodges has recently published an article entitled 'Atmospheric Visions: Mirages, methane seeps and ‘clam-monsters’ in the Yellow Sea' in the journal Shima. The article uses Chinese folklore and mythology about the origin of mirages to provide new ways of thinking about deep sea ecology. He brings together scholarship on atmospheres, multispecies