Majors and Dual Degrees
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
The study of normal and disordered human hearing, speech, language, learning, and swallowing.
- Communication Studies
The analysis of organizational, cultural, interpersonal, and mass media communication.
- Performance Studies
The study and creation of text-based and cultural performances.
- Radio/Television/Film
Academic and interdisciplinary study of film, television, and digital media.
- Theatre
Intensive training in the theatrical arts, nested in the context of a liberal arts education.
- Theatre
The study and performance of dance in the context of a liberal arts education.
- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, Theatre
Earn both a bachelor of science in engineering and either a bachelor of science or bachelor of arts in communication in five years.
- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Studies, Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film, Theatre
Earn either a bachelor of music or bachelor of arts in music and either a bachelor of science or bachelor of arts in communication in five years.
Minors and Certificates
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
The study of the physical and physiological principles underlying communication.
- Radio/Television/Film
Interdisciplinary coursework in the analysis of traditional and new media.
- Performance Studies
Training for students interested in pursuing the theories, methodologies, and techniques of performance to develop artistic and/or scholarly work in other primary disciplines across the University.
- Radio/Television/Film
The art and technology of sound design in film and video, new media, theatre, radio, and art installations.
- Theatre
A selective program, requiring auditions for first and second year students majoring in theatre, voice and dance.
Modules
- OUPA
- Radio/Television/Film, Theatre
A course of study designed for RTVF and Theatre Majors to focus on the craft of performance for narrative cinema, television, and web media.
- OUPA
- Communication Sciences and Disorders, Communication Studies, Theatre
Students will study the nuanced interplay between biology and environment that contribute to building developmental foundations for communication.
- OUPA
- Radio/Television/Film
Students will explore the field of comedy in fields of television, film, theatre, stand-up, prose, performance and sketch.
- OUPA
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
This module gives students a deep appreciation for the tools used to study the brain and how it gives rise to typical and atypical communication abilities.
- OUPA
- Theatre
Students will explore the arts of book writing, lyric writing and composition, while cultivating an effective and healthy collaboration in music theatre.
- OUPA
- Radio/Television/Film
This module is designed to encourage mastery of the art and craft of writing for screen, stage, television and all forms of narrative media.
- OUPA
- Communication Studies
Students in this module explore the use, design, and implications of digital communication and information technologies.
- OUPA
- Radio/Television/Film
This module is for focused study and practice of narrative motion picture directing.
- OUPA
- Communication Studies
Students will examine the context of their impact on patient safety, individual and population health outcomes, and organizational workflow in healthcare systems.
- OUPA
- Communication Studies
Students will investigate media and creative markets and explore how power, capital, value, labor and regulation affect culture.
- OUPA
- Radio/Television/Film
This module explores the foundations of digital interactive art, gaming, web, sensor based interactions, and useful daily applications of digital media.
- OUPA
- Performance Studies
This module explores how modes of performance inspire and generate activism toward human rights.
- OUPA
- Theatre
This module is designed to nurture a community of playwrights, ultimately preparing them to present themselves effectively to the profession.
- OUPA
- Performance Studies, Radio/Television/Film
This module explores sound as cultural expression, creative practice, and a key component in the study of performance as communication.
- OUPA
- Communication Studies
This module encourages students to understand how organizations can use technology to catalyze constructive, innovative, and mission-driven practices.
- OUPA
- Theatre
This module provides a concentrated study for a cohort with shared enthusiasm for theatre and young people.
- OUPA
- Theatre
The module prepares students to begin careers as theatre managers and leaders.
- OUPA
- Theatre
The module prepares undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career as a theatrical designer.