School of Communication Studies

SIU offers undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees in communication studies. In our program, you’ll study the ways we communicate and how to evaluate different audiences, analyze human behavior and mediated communication, and form clear and persuasive messages.

Our undergraduate program provides career-focused study in performance, debate, communication and activism, business and organizational communication, and more. You'll study how politicians use communication tools, how communication spreads social movements, how to tell or analyze personal narratives and oral history and much more.

You can choose a specialization to hone in your career goals as you learn a broad base of employable skills. Our graduate program offers academically rigorous courses of study in gender, sexuality, and relational communication; intercultural communication and pedagogy; performance studies; and rhetoric and society.

Graduate students find a supportive faculty and community of peers as they move through their coursework, engage in professional development opportunities, and complete a culminating project.