Through collaborations with other students, internships, classroom teaching and hands-on experience, you'll immerse yourself in design solutions, marketing, audio production, consumer behavior, and more!

This deep set of proficiencies in multiple areas will increase your marketability in a changeable industry. From public speaking to design techniques, you'll graduate with a distinct set of state-of-the-art skills that an education in traditional communication programs doesn't provide.

Upon completion of their academic and internship requirements, graduates of Champlain College's undergraduate Communication program will:

• Demonstrate knowledge of the historical and theoretical contexts important to communication practices.

• Analyze the structure, content and consequences of both traditional mass media and emerging digital media.

• Analyze, evaluate and critique communication practices both mediated and non-mediated.

• Demonstrate knowledge of the complex relationships between media and society, and media and the individual.

• Apply ethical values that guide media practices and professional standards.

• Articulate their own ideas and express them effectively, with clarity, appropriateness and interest.

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of a variety of communication technologies (audio, video, web-based).

• Identify and anticipate societal trends in communication.

• Conduct communication and media research.

• Apply legal concepts specific to communication issues to situations potentially arising in their professional practices.

• Demonstrate sensitivity to multicultural values and global perspectives.

• Identify various audience segments, and show evidence of being able to adapt to those audiences.

• Design and implement hands-on, field based projects in partnership with community clients from both for-profit and non-profit organizations.