subject: Communications Degrees - Available Studies [print this page] Communications Degrees - Available Studies
The opportunity to enter a career in communications is widely available from colleges across the country. Students are able to enter education through a concentrated area of study that can include specific degree programs in mass communications, visual communications, telecommunications, and more. There are a number of opportunities and available studies for communications degrees.
The ability to send and receive information through some form of medium is taught in all degree studies. Students can expect to learn how to package information and deliver it to an audience. The skills learned can have students working as:
Reporters for Newspapers
Website Designers
Public Relations Officers
Within a mass communications major students are taught how to deliver a message to an audience. Students can enter one or more of the four major sub categories by deciding which skills and specialty they want to learn.
Students learn by working through a concentration in journalism, public relations, advertising, or broadcast journalism. Four main categories allow students to fully grasp the meaning of communication as it pertains to delivering news. Journalism concentrations focus on the ability to write for newspapers, magazines, web sites, and more. A public relations concentration focuses on providing information about a company through press releases and press kits. Working with a business to push their service or product out into the public's eye can be learned through an advertising concentration. Delivering the news on a television or radio station is available through a broadcast concentration. Students can branch out and learn the technical side of broadcasting as well as earn an education in more than one concentration.
Entering a career and working on the design and marketing side of the field can be entered in a visual communications major. College's center on providing students with an education on how to format and design websites, brochures, ads, packaging, and more. Education in design software, web design, photography, media writing, and history allows student to understand how to work with all areas of design. Students that are interested in the technical side of the field have the option of earning a degree in wireless communications. This field develops the skills to work with computer networks, data systems, wireless networks, and other technologies. Students can also enter a telecommunications degree program. Learning focuses on teaching students about satellite systems, electronic technologies, managing networks, and more. The last major category in the field is media communications. Students should expect to learn to work with all publications and broadcasting stations to create clear and concise messages.
These options can be worked through separately or students can earn an education in multiple areas. The ability to communicate in writing, advertising, and broadcasting is a usable skill. Complete a communications degree program that is approved for full accreditation by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSC), and enter the continually advancing industry.
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