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Kent State University
135 Taylor Hall
P.O. Box 5190
Kent, Ohio 44242-0001
E-mail: comm@kent.edu
Phone: 330-672-2659
Fax: 330-672-3510
International Phone: 00 1-330-672-2659
Graduate Program
Concentrations
The School of Communication Studies offers a Master of Arts graduate program and has developed a tradition of academic innovation and achievement.
Graduate students pursue programs of study in:
Interpersonal Communication (includes but is not limited to)
- Family Communication
- Message Production
- Communication and Cognition
- Relational Communication
Mediated and Mass Communication
- Media Effects
- Personal and Mediated Communication
- Politics and the Media
- Communication in Information Society
Health Communication
- Social Support
- Health Literacy
- Health Campaigns
- Health and Interpersonal Communication
Global Communication
- Communication in an Information Society
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Intercultural/International Communication
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Intergroup Communication
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Communication, Organization and Globalization
The Communication Studies graduate program has a strong research orientation. Faculty and graduate students conduct research, publish in the discipline's journals, and present papers at international, national, and regional conventions on a regular basis.
A recent survey indicates that alumni of the graduate program enjoy a high rate of employment in universities and organizations across the country, well above the national average.
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Jason Sabo, a project consultant with Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talks with Dr. Duncan, Assistant Professor and Undergraduate Advisor for the School of Communication Studies, about his Graduate School experience at Kent State Unversity.
