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About the School
The University of Denver's School of Communication (SOC) is committed
to the education and advancement of individuals capable of impacting communication
worldwide by offering innovative undergraduate and graduate programs with
advanced intellectual and theoretical foundations through a scholar/artist
faculty committed to leading edge communication theory and practice.
History
The SOC was formed in 1991 by two long-standing and distinguished departments:
Human Communication Studies and Mass Communications and Journalism Studies.
With 25 faculty members teaching over 600 students in nine graduate and
three undergraduate programs, the SOC began granting degrees in 1894 as
the Department of Oratory. Throughout its 113-year history, SOC faculty
have been academic leaders and pioneers in such areas as: broadcasting,
cable telecommunications, intercultural communication, interpersonal communication,
leadership, media effects, media economics, media management, research
methods, and teams and team work.
Global Awareness
In recognition of the increasingly global and digital nature of communication,
the SOC has been a leader in integrating these two areas into its curriculum.
In recent years, members of the SOC faculty have brought international
experience to the students through speaking and conducting research in
such diverse locales as Australia, Canada, China (Beijing, Guangzhou,
Hangzhou, and Hong Kong), Costa Rica, Great Britain, Ireland, South Africa,
Switzerland, Taiwan, and Zambia.
Digitalization
Anticipating the role of digital media and arts in the 21st century,
the SOC co-founded one of the first digital media studies degree programs
(both B.A. and M.A.) in the world (the program is a joint venture between the School of Communication, the School of Art & Art History and the Department of Computer Science). The awareness of and emphasis on the
digital age has manifest itself in the SOC's facilities, curriculum and
co-curricular projects, such as the DU Portfolio Community.
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