Welcome to Communication and Journalism

The Department’s primary educational mission is to offer challenging liberal arts degree programs that include the personal and professional practices and the social contexts of communication, mass communication, and journalism. Through the study of human communication we seek to understand and to improve the human condition. The Department fulfills this liberal arts mission through its undergraduate programs in Communication, Mass Communication, and Journalism, and through its graduate programs in Communication and Mass Communication.

**Spring, 2012 News**

GRADUATION! The Department of Communication and Journalism congratulates all the undergraduate and graduate students who will be graduating on May 4 and May 5, 2012. For our graduating undergraduate majors, please join us in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union at 8:30am on Saturday, May 5, for the Department’s graduation celebration. We hope to see you there.

New Faculty News for 2012-2013

The Department is pleased to announce that Jennifer E. Moore, Ph.D., will be joining the Faculty in 2012-2013 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism.

The Department is also pleased to announce that Diane M. Keeling, Ph.D., will be joining the Faculty in 2012-2013 as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication and Journalism.