Communication Arts at UW–Madison
Welcome to the home of communication studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. We teach the production and consumption of communication in its diverse forms.
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Undergraduate Program
Be a part of one of the most popular majors in the College of Letters and Science at one of the top public universities in the country. Focus your studies on either Communication Science and Rhetoric, or Radio, Television, and Film.
Graduate Program
Join our renowned graduate program to do groundbreaking research in Communication Science, Film, Media and Cultural Studies, or Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture.
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Reclaiming the narrative: Professor Lori Lopez’s #AtlantaSyllabus spurs wider discussion about Asian Americans
If you’ve been paying attention—to the degree that Lori Lopez has been paying attention—then you know it didn’t start when a white man gunned down six female Asian American service workers at a series of …
May 26, 2021
Comm Arts graduate student interviewed by CNN for her (re)-discovery of the first late-night talk show host
In May 2017, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel delivered a live, heartfelt, and tearful monologue about his newborn son’s open heart surgery and the importance of health care coverage. The monologue, and a subsequent …
May 24, 2021
Comm Arts congratulates Lynzee Klingman for Career Achievement Award
As a freshman at UW-Madison, Lynzee Klingman planned to major in math, but walking to early a.m. calculus classes in sub-zero Wisconsin weather proved too much, so she focused instead on history, studying with influential …
May 24, 2021- More News
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