COMMUNICATION

The Communication Department at UC San Diego is distinctive in a number of ways. Our department brings together faculty and graduate students from many different disciplinary backgrounds, and encourages research that cuts across standard boundaries between disciplines and subfields... For prospective graduate students, we offer a PhD program that vigorously engages in the social investigation and transformation of communication practices, marries symbolic and structural approaches, and weaves together perspectives, theories, and methods that include but go beyond those typically deployed in the field. Much of the research in Communication at UCSD looks closely and critically at the organization of extant communication structures, media systems, and technologies to consider how such structures, systems, and technologies might be harnessed to facilitate social change, reshape communication cultures, redistribute social access, and foster new forms of political engagement, public..

Primary location: La Jolla United States