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Communication Studies Honors Student Timberly Southerland has successfully defended her Honors thesis, “The Politics Of Rhetorical Identification: A Critical Examination of Identification in Barack Obama’s 2008 Campaign Rhetoric.” Timberly’s advisor was Dr. Nance Riffe, and committee members were Dr. Jason Black and Dr. Ashli Stokes. Click to learn more about the Communication Studies Honors Program.

Join us for a virtual open house for the M.A. program in Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte! The event will be held on Wednesday, December 16th from 2:00-3:00pm EST. The open house will be hosted by Dr. Erin Basinger, Graduate Program Director, and current graduate student, Brendi Bluitt. During the open house, they will overview […]

Update on Pass/No Credit election for Pre-Communication Studies courses Acceptance into the Communication Studies major requires a C or better in Comm 1101 Public Speaking, COMM 2100 Introduction to Communication Studies, and STAT 1220/1221/1222 Introduction to Statistics, as well as an overall GPA of 2.0 and proficiency at the Intermediate level of a Latin based […]

Two faculty members in the Department of Communication Studies edited the just-published The Personal Is Political: Body Politics in a Trump World. The book, edited by Professor Christine S. Davis and Associate Professor Jonathan Crane, gathers a diverse collection of scholars to document the ways in which marginalized peoples have experienced the Trump administration. Essays […]

Professor Ashli Stokes has joined the Counter’s series of first-person, personal accounts of the American eating experience during the Covid-19 pandemic — with her essay on the value of good, old-fashioned, Southern-style waffles. Dig in: https://thecounter.org/covid-19-essay-bisquick-recipes-in-lockdown/ For more from the series: https://thecounter.org/covid-19-essays-eating-in-the-counter/