<p>Is there a Communications concentration at Brown? I can’t seem to find one listed yet I can’t imagine that they wouldn’t have it???</p>
<p>Although there is no communications concentration, there is the option to create one’s own concentration. One could combine courses from various departments to achieve the same effect as one.</p>
<p>I don’t think we offer courses that could create a communications concentration and I’m not sure that the CCC would approve it.</p>
<p>Brown purposely does not have pre-professional concentrations, to the best of our ability, on the books, and will not approve concentrations that are designed solely to prepare people to work in a particular industry. There must be a significant, rigorous academic/theoretical approach to what you’re doing.</p>
<p>That being said, WBRU is perhaps the best college radio station in the country to work at as a burgeoning communications professional, second probably only to BU’s station (since their facilities also house Boston’s NPR stations).</p>
<p>So modestmelody-- if you must show “significant, rigorous academic/theoretical approach to what you’re doing”, does that mean if you appear too interested in seeking employment upon graduation it’ll work against you (as opposed to continuing on to grad school)? Thus, does Brown want to admit students who just want to explore for 4 years?</p>
<p>No that’s not true, however, we don’t offer non-academic subjects for concentrations. If you did communications here, it’d likely look quite different than anywhere else.</p>
<p>We just don’t offer pre-professional concentrations (outside of engineering).</p>
<p>For instance, we don’t offer journalism, a traditional business program, communications, nutrition, physical therapy, personal trainer, speech and language pathology, etc.</p>
<p>I glanced at what the College Board says might be in a Communications major - it sounds like courses such as intro to semantics would be useful for creating your own. It’d be a very theoretical variation, though, as you mentioned. I know Princeton also doesn’t have one either, so Brown is hardly alone.</p>
<p>I know many schools offer a linguistics program through their Communications department, and Brown has that. It’s just that, here, linguistics is clumped together with cognitive science. If you’re interested in the slightest, you can take a gander:</p>
<p>[Department</a> of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences: Concentration in Linguistics](<a href=“http://www.cog.brown.edu/linguistics.html]Department”>http://www.cog.brown.edu/linguistics.html)</p>
<p>There are journalism-writing classes offered through the English department, and other writing courses offered in other departments, some taught by professional journalists. There are no public relations courses or anything that I know of that would discuss tv or radio news. MCM has a film production component. There are many many Brown graduates who work in journalism and public relations, but they majored in just about anything you could imagine, from political science and history to biology and modern culture and media.</p>