Graduate Study @ the LL&C

The study of human communication deals with the processes by which humans create and share meaning. It is an interdisciplinary field embracing literary study, speech communication, composition and rhetoric, foreign languages, media studies, visual design, and technical communication.

The Department of Language, Literature, and Communication (LL&C) emphasizes those communication processes involved in the creation of meaning in all media, including the new electronic media.

Ph.D. Programs

  • Communication and Rhetoric
    This program has a unique focus on the design, uses, and effects of communication technologies.
  • Doctoral Forms
    (Nomination of Doctoral Committee, Plan of Study, Record of Candidacy Exam, Record of Thesis/Project Exam)

M.S. Programs

  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
    This program enables students to gain production and research skills for usability testing and interface design.
  • Technical Communication
    This program enables students to gain design skills that resist obsolescence and the capacity to generate content for several electronically-based communication media.
  • Communication and Rhetoric
    This program prepares students for applied research in industry or government, or for further study in a doctoral program.
  • Master's Forms
    (Plan of Study, Record of Thesis/Project Exam)