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Communication Division

The knowledge and skills involving communication are among the most important and useful in today’s world.  At the heart of communication is the examination of social symbolic activity.  It is the use of symbols that makes humans unique.

The Communication Division examines the use of symbols in a variety of contexts.  These contexts include mass mediated forms and social scientific notions of communication, as well as the more traditional speech/rhetoric area of communication.  The mass mediated forms include: journalism, graphic arts, and photographic communications.  Social scientific approaches encompass interpersonal, small group and organizational communication.  The more traditional speech areas concentrate on public speaking and persuasion.  The division sponsors an intercollegiate forensics team.

The Communication Division helps students acquire the skills necessary to be effective communicators and to be critical consumers of communication.  This is done regardless of whether the student desires immediate employment or transfer to a four-year institution for a baccalaureate degree.
 
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Faculty & Staff

Faculty
Duane Fish
Professor of Speech Communication & Chairperson of Communication Division
Anthony Polvere
Assistant Professor of Photography
Bob Becker
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
Charlotte Patrick
Professor of Communications
Craig Satterlee
Associate Professor of Photography. Coordinator of Photography
Dennis Davis
Assistant Professor of Journalism/Mass Communication
Fred Ebert
Visiting Instructor, Speech Communications & Forensics
Gary Bakken
Assistant Professor of Photography
Jeannie Hunt
Instructor of Speech Communications
Morgan Tyree
Assistant Professor of Graphic Arts/Printing
Pete Gjovik
Associate Professor of Graphic Arts/Printing
Ron Feemster
Assistant Professor of Journalism/Mass Communications
Woody Wooden
Assistant Professor of Photography

Staff
Jane Johnson
Digital Studio Specialist
Janice Gormley
Division Secretary for Communications

Programs


Associate of Science Also known as
Agriculture Communication