School of Communication

Undergraduate Degrees
Graduate Degrees
Courses of Instruction

Annenberg School for Communication
(213) 740-6273
(213) 740-8036 (FAX)

Director: Walter R. Fisher, Ph.D.

Faculty

Professors: Jonathan D. Aronson, Ph.D.; Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Ph.D.; Peter Clarke, Ph.D.; Michael J. Cody, Ph.D.; William H. Dutton, Ph.D.; Walter R. Fisher, Ph.D.; Thomas A. Hollihan, Ph.D.; Margaret McLaughlin, Ph.D.; Peter R. Monge, Ph.D.; A. Michael Noll, Ph.D.

Associate Professors: James R. Beniger, Ph.D.; Janet Fulk, Ph.D.; Randall Lake, Ph.D.; Lynn C. Miller, Ph.D.; Patricia Riley, Ph.D.; Kenneth K. Sereno, Ph.D.

Assistant Professors: Sheila T. Murphy, Ph.D.; Stephen O'Leary, Ph.D.; Marita Sturken, Ph.D.; Douglas Thomas, Ph.D.; Christopher Weare, Ph.D.

Lecturers: Ann Chisholm, Ph.D.; David Damus, J.D.; Colleen Keough, Ph.D.

Adjunct Faculty: David G. Hopelain, Ph.D.; David Marc, Ph.D.; Tracy Westen, J.D.

Degree Programs

The School of Communication offers programs of study leading to a B.A., M.A., Ph.D., and a minor in Communication, as well as an M.A. in Communication Management. The Communication Management Program has established dual degree programs with the Law Center and Hebrew Union College.

Communication has become a watchword of modern society, for it is through communication that our social, economic, and cultural lives are shaped - globally, daily, comprehensively. The communication discipline focuses on how and with what success individuals strategically employ symbols (language, art and other modes of expression) to achieve goals. Those who undertake the study of communication examine the content and the techniques of communication, in relation to the chosen medium, as well as its processes and effects.

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