https://communication.northwestern.edu/
Northwestern’s School of Communication is one of the few places where students can find a comprehensive program in performing and media arts, including dramatic writing, film and television production, design for interactive and digital media, acting on stage and on screen, sound design and studies, theatre design and directing, theatre history, music theatre, and dance. Across the School, faculty are committed to the integration of theory/research and practice; the School’s state-of-the-art"modular"curriculum connects with and builds upon its rich co-curricular offerings. These include over three dozen theatre and dance productions a year organized by faculty as well as many more student-organized projects; media arts activities that allow students to create film, television, sound, and video installations, and digital media products; and community education and outreach projects, especially involving creative drama for young audiences. The arts curriculum has recently been extended to include theatre management and leadership for creative enterprises. An Office of External Programs, Internships, and Career Services helps students enter the creative economy with industry experience and connections to the School’s star-studded alumni network.
The mission of the School of Communication is to advance the arts, sciences, and practices of human communication through every appropriate means, and especially through education, scholarship, artistic work, policy analysis, and advocacy. In pursuit of this mission, the School has developed innovative curricula for undergraduate, professional, and doctoral programs in each of its five departments (communication sciences and disorders, communication studies, radio-television-film, performance studies, and theatre); it also offers pre-college and continuing education programs in selected areas. Its research programs provide comprehensive and interdisciplinary study of human communication and expression, from speech and hearing sciences through social scientific and humanistic studies of media to the arts of performance and storytelling. Through its clinics, theaters, centers, and co-curricular offerings, the School carries out an effective program of translational activities designed to reshape the capabilities and practices of individual communicators and the communities in which they live and work.
