The Ph.D. in Communication and Rhetoric is distinguished by its commitment to the integrated, interdisciplinary study of media, communication, and society. 

Program Overview

Situated within the country’s oldest technological university that brings together science with the humanities, the CMRT Ph.D. is an exciting and flexible program for students wishing to bring cutting edge theory and practice to their chosen research agendas.

After Graduation

Graduates of the Ph.D. program in Communication and Rhetoric leave equipped with critical, creative, and methodological abilities, as well as self-awareness, empathic cognizance, and ethical principles for using language, in all its varied forms, in multicultural, multimedia, and multimodal environments.

The program's freshly minted scholars are ready to contribute expertise in cultural, communication, and media studies; design thinking and making; visualization; and humanistic literature to virtual communities and immersive and mixed-reality environments, as well as to traditional textual environments involving word, image, and sound.

 

These graduates possess an analytical, applied, empirical, and theoretical knowledge set that enables them to collaborate in interdisciplinary teams working to address global challenges in the world. Thus, they are competitive in the job market, readily finding careers in business, government, and academia.

June Deery

June Deery works in Media Studies and writes on commercialization, politics, gender, race/ ethnicity, class, and Reality TV. For some time, she has been investigating cultural perceptions of fact and fiction and is currently exploring their status within a political context. In Consuming Reality: The Commercialization of Factual Entertainment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), she demonstrates how reality television monetizes and consumes reality through its branding of content and propagation of capitalist narratives.

The Department of Communication and Media educates students in the theoretical and practical foundations needed to communicate across diverse media platforms, with critical understandings of how media shape global cultures.

About the Department

Academic Programs

Area of Study B.S. Minor Ph.D.
Communication and Rhetoric Communication and Rhetoric, Ph.D.
Communication, Media, and Design Communication, Media, and Design, B.S.
Chinese Language Chinese Language, Minor
Literature and Creative Writing Literature and Creative Writing, Minor
Writing Writing, Minor
Graphic Design Graphic Design, Minor
Interactive Media/Data Design Interactive Media/Data Design, Minor
Media and Culture Media and Culture , Minor
Strategic Communication Strategic Communication, Minor
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