Major in a Minute: Speech

Jaye: The speech major is all about how to create messages as well as then perform the messages and analyze the impact of those messages.

Bianca: It's learning about getting the information to the audience correctly and effectively... Making sure the audience understands it the way you want them to.

Jaye: Students will take courses that focus on persuasion, argumentation, the rhetoric of social movements, as well as communication development, communication disorders, but also communication and aging and aspects of interpersonal communication.

Bianca: The way you dress, which words you choose, how you stand at a podium, it's all very important.

Jaye: Many of our students go into business, law, politics, education...

Bianca: This major has helped me come out of my shell and learn how to do things in front of crowds that I never thought I'd be able to do.