Degrees at the College
Ph.D. in Communication
The Ph.D. program emphasizes communication as a
social science. Graduates are prepared for university positions
and careers in government, the media and other organizations as
researchers, consultants and policy makers. Students must
demonstrate general knowledge of communication, as well as
competence in a core area of specialization. Current core areas
include communication and information systems, health
communication, interpersonal communication, and mass
communication.
Students must demonstrate a thorough grasp of
communication theory and research methods and must take course
work in a cognate area outside of Communication. Proficiency in
a foreign language is not required for successful completion of
the Ph.D. in Communication. A student's advisory committee may,
however, stipulate certain graduate-level courses in another
language for the student's program that are consistent with the
objectives of the student's program.
The required first-year curriculum is as
follows:
Fall Semester
CJT 701
CJT 667
A 500-level or above statistics course
Spring Semester
CJT 631
CJT 665
CJT 645
All students are also required to complete at
least 3 credit hours of CJT 790 by the last semester of course
work.
The Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, in
consultation with the Graduate Review committee, can waive any
of the above requirements for a student who has previously taken
the same or equivalent course at UK or another university for
graduate credit.
Each student works with a major professor and an
advisory committee to plan course work and complete the
dissertation. The committee also administers the qualifying
examination and the final oral examination. The qualifying
examination consists of a written and oral examination over
general communication, the core area of specialization, research
methods/statistics and the cognate area.
Standards for admission to the doctoral program
are similar to those of the Graduate School, including
satisfactory scores on the verbal, quantitative and analytical
portions of the Graduate Record Examination (GRE). For
additional information about program requirements and
opportunities for financial assistance, write to the Associate
Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Communications and
Information Studies.
GRADUATE COURSES
- CJT 601 PROSEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 608 MASS COMMUNICATIONS AND SOCIETY (3)
- CJT 619 PROSEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL/INTERCULTRUAL
COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 625 PROSEMINAR IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 630 PROSEMINAR IN MASS MEDIA LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY (3)
- CJT 631 PROSEMINAR IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 645 PRESEMINAR IN MASS COMMUNICATION THEORY (3)
- CJT 650 COMMUNICATION, LANGUAGE AND CULTURE (3)
- CJT 651 COMMUNICATION THEORY (3)
- CJT 665 COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH METHODS (3)
- CJT 667 QUALITATIVE METHODS IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH (3)
- CJT 671 PROSEMINAR IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 682 COMMUNICATION AND PERSUASION (3)
- CJT 684 PROSEMINAR IN INSTRUCTIONAL COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 685 SEMINAR: PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY FOR THE
MULTICULTURAL CLASSROOM (1)
- CJT 686 PRACTICUM IN PREPARING FUTURE FACULTY (1)
- CJT 696 INTERNSHIP IN COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 700 DIRECTED READING IN COMMUNICATION (1-3)
- CJT 701 ADVANCED TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION THEORY (SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 719 SEMINAR IN INTERNATIONAL/INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 725 SEMINAR IN ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION: (SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 730 SEMINAR IN MASS MEDIA AND PUBLIC POLICY (SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 731 SEMINAR IN INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION (SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 748 MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH (0)
- CJT 749 DISSERTATION RESEARCH (0)
- CJT 765 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS
(3)
- CJT 767 ADVANCED TOPICS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS
(3)
- CJT 768 RESIDENCE CREDIT FOR THE MASTER' DEGREE (1-6)
- CJT 769 RESIDENCE CREDIT FOR DOCTOR'S DEGREE (0-12)
- CJT 771 SEMINAR IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION (3)
- CJT 775 SEMINAR IN HEALTH COMMUNICATION CAMPAIGNS (3)
- CJT 780 SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION:(SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (3)
- CJT 781 DIRECTED STUDY IN COMMUNICATION (1-6)
- CJT 790 RESEARCH PROBLEMS IN COMMUNICATION (1-6)
- COM 525 ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION (3)
- COM 555 CYBERSPACE AND COMMUNICATION (SAME AS TEL 555) (3)
- COM 571 HEALTH COMMUNICATION (3)
- COM 581 STUDIES IN SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION CONTEXTS (3)
- COM 584 TEACHING OF SPEECH COMMUNICATION (3)
- COM 591 SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION (SUBTITLE
REQUIRED) (1)
- ISC 541 CRITICAL TOPICS IN INTEGRATED STRATEGIC
COMMUNICATION (SUBTITLE REQUIRED) (3)
- ISC 543 REGULATION OF STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION (3)
- JOU 531 MEDIA LAW AND ETHICS (3)
- JOU 532 ETHICS OF JOURNALISM AND MASS COMMUNICATION (3)
- JOU 535 HISTORY OF JOURNALISM (3)
- TEL 504 MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS (3)
- TEL 510 MEDIA ECONOMICS (3)
- TEL 520 SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE MASS MEDIA (3)
- TEL 525 THEORY OF MULTIMEDIA (3)
- TEL 530 PRO-SEMINAR IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS (3)
- TEL 555 CYBERSPACE AND COMMUNICATION (SAME AS COM 555) (3)
- TEL 590 ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOPICAL SEMINAR
(SUBTITLE REQUIRED) (3)
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