The Communication Arts and Theatre department is dedicated to the creative and critical study of human communication, with special emphasis on drama, rhetoric, and mass media. The curriculum offers opportunities for the performance, practice, in-depth study, and analysis of texts and techniques in each of these spheres. Students engage in speech, writing, media studies, visual production, dramatic arts, and criticism, with the objective of becoming competent and engaged artists/scholars in their fields. The department's liberal arts emphasis encourages students to develop habits of engaged citizenship, thoughtful professionalism, and a meaningful private life.