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What Do You Learn as a Communication Major?
I am nearing graduation with a degree in human communication. Here are a few interesting things that I have studied so far.
What is communication? If we think about it, communication is a part of everything we do today. Like thinking, most people would find it harder to stop communicating than they even realize.
What would happen if you stopped interacting with a close friend?
In an attempt to not communicate, you might be communicating unintentionally. Your friend may think something has happened to you, that they have done something that has offended you, or that the relationship is no longer important to you.
As a communication scholar, I have learned a lot of information that originated in other disciplines. Communication education borrows from many other areas of study. Psychology, sociology, history, and linguistics are a few of the subjects that frequently find their way into communication studies. Communication scholars also produce a solid body of work on their own.
One of the most interesting and useful communication theories I have learned so far is the communication accommodation theory (CAT). CAT helps to describe how our communication changes when we talk to different people. Most of us recognize that we…
