Department of Communication
We are committed to helping our students find their voices so that they can care for themselves and others. Together, we are shaping a better world as authentic, articulate, and persuasive rhetors, organizational members, and storytellers.
A Bachelor of Arts degree seeks to provide students with a broad-based understanding of the processes of human communication and the importance of these communication processes in our society.
The accelerated degree program in Communication is a traditional 36-hour B.A. degree combined with a 30-hour M.A. degree, enabling high-performing CSS majors on the Corporate Communication track to earn a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in 5 years.
The MA in Communication program at Baylor University aims to develop innovative, articulate, and ethical leaders in multiple fields related to communication and media.
Research
Our faculty publish in top-tier journals, write books, and produce other forms of engaged research that address the communicative dimensions of leadership, organizing, relationships, technology, media, and public culture.
As scholar-teachers, we also share a commitment to cultivate skills in humanistic and social scientific inquiry in our undergraduate and graduate students so that they can productively intervene in the problems and complexities of our social world.
News
See More NewsThe Fall 2024 version of Baylor University’s “Best of the Best” speech contest was held on Monday, December 9, 2024. Communication Department graduate students nominate the best speakers from each of the 60 students in their public speaking groups. Those students give their final speeches before an audience of 200 students who vote to determine the outcome. The “Best of the Best” speech contest at Baylor is administered by Dr. Rich Edwards, professor of communication.
Oligarchy in America offers a survey of the history of political and economic ideas in the US that have led to an increasingly entrenched ultra-rich class of oligarchs.
Dr. Aric Gooch from the Department of Political Science gave a guest lecture on American Democracy to Dr. Luke Winslow's class. Combined with Coach Drew's lecture to Dr. Browning's class, the Department of Communication has hosted guest two guests lecturers with Big XII championships and a national title this week.
The applications for Baylor Communication & International Politics Summer 2025 is now open! Join Dr. Luke Winslow in a study abroad trip to Spain & Portugal for 3 weeks in May and June.