Focuses on developing persuasive messages designed to sell products, services or ideas.
Communication Studies
Formerly Strategic, Legal and Management Communication (SLMC)
About COMM
Formerly known as Strategic, Legal and Management Communication (SLMC), our Department's award-winning programs prepare students for careers in strategic, legal and management communication.
Strategic Communication (Advertising and Public Relations)
Do you want to be social media guru, event planner or activation rockstar, crisis manager (Olivia Pope-style), public relations influencer or advertising architect for some of the top global brands? Do you want to gain real-world experience on a student-run strategic communications firm?
- Learn more about majors in strategic communication: public relations and advertising.
Legal Communication
Are you the next luminescent legal mind, a dynamo in the courtroom? A key changemaker on social policies or contributor to issues surfacing in the public sphere?
- Learn more about majoring in legal communication.
Management Communication
Do you want to become an expert on improving organizational culture? A leader in the management of a diverse and ever-changing workforce?
- Learn more about majors in management and organizational communication.
Grow Your Communication Skills
COMM houses the Graduate and Teaching Associates Development Program, under the direction of Dr. Tia Tyree. Instructors within this program teach the foundational Principles of Speech course, a general education requirement for all Howard University students that works to build their communications skills.
Contact Us
The MET Building
300 Bryant Street NW,
Room 101-C2
Washington D.C. 20001
Chair: Kehbuma Langmia
email: commdept@howard.edu
phone: 202-806-6063
Find Us on Social Media
Instagram: @HowardUComm
X/Twitter: @HowardUComm
Facebook: /HowardUComm
COMM Opportunities
CapComm Lab Strategic Communications Agency
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forensics Program
Graduate and Teaching Associates Development Program
D. Parke Gibson Chapter of PRSSA
Department of Communication Studies Program
Click here to learn more about the Department of Communication Studies' programs.A Message From Our Chair
New and transfer students, welcome to the Department of Communication Studies (COMM). Here, you will receive world-class education from award-winning and internationally recognized faculty members who will instill pedagogical, research and professional skills that will make you change agents in the world. You are heartily welcomed.
Our Programs
Minor in COMM
Minors in COMM complement degrees in marketing, accounting, political science, journalism, entrepreneurship and more.
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