Communication & Rhetoric: About the Program

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Studying Communication and Rhetoric in our ever-changing world brings innovative and exciting opportunities for new graduates. The program in Communication & Rhetoric furnishes students with the knowledge and requisite skills that will make them professionals, scholars, and citizens for the 21st century and beyond.

The Communication and Rhetoric major at Nazareth fosters and sustains a distinctive program of study at the intersections of Communication and Rhetorical Theory that is innovative, rigorous, and rooted in the liberal arts tradition. By fusing theory and practical application our program provides students with an in-depth and holistic foundation that cultivates analytical ability, critical consciousness, and pragmatic accomplishment. In this way, majors are prepared for a wide-range of professional opportunities in areas such as advertising, marketing, public relations, broadcasting and electronic media, journalism, screenwriting, and a whole host of others.