{"id":534,"date":"2014-05-01T16:17:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T20:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/?p=534"},"modified":"2026-03-24T10:06:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T14:06:29","slug":"communication-studies-b-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/communication-studies-b-a\/","title":{"rendered":"Communication Studies, B.A."},"content":{"rendered":"
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The B.A. in Communication Studies provides maximum flexibility in planning for a variety of academic and occupational goals. The curriculum is personalized for each student and specific curricular, extracurricular, and internship programs are planned as integral parts of each student\u2019s program. Communication Studies majors choose from the following focus areas: Public Communication and Persuasion; Media Studies; Intercultural and Interpersonal Communication; Organizational and Professional Communication; or Science, Environmental and Health Communication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Students selecting this major may pursue studies in business and professional communication, communication theory, oral interpretation, rhetoric and public address, or public relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":706,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[701],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college-of-arts-and-sciences"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32407,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions\/32407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/advising\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}