传播学文学学士

在范德比尔特的传播学研究仍然是文科传统的中心。由于传播学（CMST）专业毕业后进入了一系列专业领域-包括法律和政治，市场营销与公共关系，媒体制作和新闻学，技术与商业-传播学系将其课程锚定在三个关键领域：关键思维，有效的写作和雄辩的口才。这样，学生就可以在从事的任何行业中运用自己的思想家，作家和演讲者的技能。该系提供的课程包括与性别，政治和社会运动有关的传播研究，旨在提高学生对中介传播的理解的分析课程，修辞传统调查以及探索传播和文化的课程。最终，传播学致力于从最广义的角度分析公共话语，重点是大众传媒，民间社
The study of communication at Vanderbilt remains at the center of the liberal arts tradition. Because communication studies (CMST) majors go into a range of professions after graduationincluding law and politics, marketing and public relations, media production and journalism, technology, and businessthe Department of Communication Studies anchors its curriculum in three key areas: critical thinking, effective writing, and eloquent speaking. Students are able to use their skills as thinkers, writers, and speakers in whatever profession they pursue. Courses include the study of communication as it relates to gender, politics, law, health, and social movements, analytical courses designed to improve student understanding of mediated communication, surveys of the rhetorical tradition, and courses that explore communication and culture. Ultimately, communication studies is devoted to the analysis of public discourse in the broadest sense, with an emphasis on media, persuasion in civil society, and social advocacy.