Anonymous
08/02/2024 08:11
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
I have no idea if this is true at the undergraduate major level, but it is true in the professional world. I do strategic communication for a living, which is different from communications, which is primarily PR and marketing. Certainly related, and there is probably some snobbery in there about the distinction in the name of the field, but what I do is the kind of public health interventions that change health metrics like HIV incidence. Generally public sector rather than private, and doesn’t aim to sell a thing (or market a person) as its goal.
I’m a communications exec. “Communications” covers a lot of ground, including what you do. You’re attempting to separate yourself from a field that you think has a bad rep/connotation. But the truth is that it’s all “communications.”
Anonymous
08/02/2024 07:30
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
I have no idea if this is true at the undergraduate major level, but it is true in the professional world. I do strategic communication for a living, which is different from communications, which is primarily PR and marketing. Certainly related, and there is probably some snobbery in there about the distinction in the name of the field, but what I do is the kind of public health interventions that change health metrics like HIV incidence. Generally public sector rather than private, and doesn’t aim to sell a thing (or market a person) as its goal.
I have 2 degrees in diff types of comms, 20+ years of professional experience, and have never heard this before.
Time to get some continuing education
Anonymous
08/02/2024 07:27
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
This sounds right. This is am example https://communication.ucsd.edu/
Anonymous
08/02/2024 07:21
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
My DS has a communications major and got a job fairly easily after college. He doesn't make the money that STEM majors do but he's employed while some of his friends in STEM majors struggled to find jobs. His job along with a weekend gig allowed him to pay off his loans within a few years.
Anonymous
08/02/2024 07:10
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
I have no idea if this is true at the undergraduate major level, but it is true in the professional world. I do strategic communication for a living, which is different from communications, which is primarily PR and marketing. Certainly related, and there is probably some snobbery in there about the distinction in the name of the field, but what I do is the kind of public health interventions that change health metrics like HIV incidence. Generally public sector rather than private, and doesn’t aim to sell a thing (or market a person) as its goal.
I have 2 degrees in diff types of comms, 20+ years of professional experience, and have never heard this before.
Anonymous
08/02/2024 07:05
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Vocational.
Better to learn to communicate -- to think and write -- through learning about something with substance/ideas.
Better to learn to communicate -- to think and write -- through learning about something with substance/ideas.
Anonymous
08/02/2024 06:59
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
It's a BS major
Anonymous
08/02/2024 06:32
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
I have no idea if this is true at the undergraduate major level, but it is true in the professional world. I do strategic communication for a living, which is different from communications, which is primarily PR and marketing. Certainly related, and there is probably some snobbery in there about the distinction in the name of the field, but what I do is the kind of public health interventions that change health metrics like HIV incidence. Generally public sector rather than private, and doesn’t aim to sell a thing (or market a person) as its goal.
Anonymous
08/02/2024 00:37
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Not sure where to place it.
How could possibly matter?
Anonymous
08/02/2024 00:36
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
100% bona fide grade-A bull manure.
https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/undergraduate-programs/communication-major
Anonymous
08/01/2024 23:48
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Anonymous wrote:Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
I assume the former is more common than the latter?
Anonymous
08/01/2024 23:44
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Communications is more vocational.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
Communication, without the S, is a liberal arts major and many tend to go and get masters and PhDs.
The s is very important and there's a distinction there.
Anonymous
08/01/2024 23:43
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
It is not a well respected major, more vocational imo
Anonymous
08/01/2024 23:40
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
It’s a D1 athlete’s major.
Anonymous
08/01/2024 23:39
Subject: Is Communications a liberal arts major or a vocational major?
Not sure where to place it.