Professional Communication, B.A.
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Program Overview
As a professional communication major, you will study the best practices for conveying information on interpersonal and organizational levels. You will develop communication skills as a speaker, listener, reader, and writer, while learning how to analyze and assess the messages you encounter in daily life. You’ll immerse yourself in the art of argumentation, persuasion, and verbal and nonverbal interaction, while also becoming adept at technologically mediated communication. This program will teach you to combine science with humanities, link theory to practice, and provide you with knowledge and skills in evidence-based practice.
Major Details
The program information listed here reflects the approved curriculum for the 2024–25 academic year per the Brooklyn College Bulletin. Bulletins from past academic years can be found here.
Major Requirements (26 Credits)
It is recommended that majors in professional communication meet with an adviser in the first year of studies.
Majors must complete the following courses (20 credits): Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders 1110, 1608; 1707; 1619; 2623; 3733 and 5275W.
In addition, majors must choose two courses (six credits) from the following: Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders 1618, 1627, 1643, 2631, 2719, 4625, or 4646.
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Describe how human interaction shapes and is shaped by relationships, institutions, and societies.
- Assess the construction and impact of rhetorical messages across civic, personal, and professional life.
- Create messages and learn how to adapt them to the diverse needs of individuals, groups, and contexts.
- Analyze the connection between communication and culture, to utilize communication to embrace difference, and to adapt one’s communication in diverse cultural contexts.
- Develop, explain, and evaluate scholarship using communication theories and research methods.
Degree Maps
To help you pursue your studies in the most efficient manner, and to maximize your efforts to graduate in four years, Brooklyn College has created four-year degree maps for all its majors.
View degree maps for this major and others.
Contact
Jason Thompson
3439 Boylan Hall
E: jthompson@brooklyn.cuny.edu
P: 718.951.5000 ext. 3277
Or contact:
Office of Undergraduate Admissions
222 West Quad Center
2900 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11210
E: adminqry@brooklyn.cuny.edu
To make an appointment with an undergraduate admissions counselor, visit:
The Support You’ll Find
Brooklyn College is an integral part of the cultural and artistic energy of New York City. Our faculty members in the Department of Communication Arts, Sciences, and Disorders offer incomparable expertise and tremendous talent, and each brings a unique perspective to their teaching and mentoring in and out of the classroom.
Internships and Employers
Through job fairs, the internship database, and internship panels, the Magner Career Center gives students in the speech—professional communication B.A. program access to career opportunities at a wide variety of employers, including:
- New York City Department of Education
- NYU Langone
- Strivright
- TheraCare
