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Rutgers School of Communication and Information
Rutgers School of Communication and Information studies how people generate, exchange, find, and understand information and media.
We educate professionals and students, expand research and scholarship, and look at the societal impact and ethics of these areas. The departments in the school study
1) communication: what it is, why and how people use it, and its effect on us with particular focus on social interaction, organizational communication, and the social impact of new communication technologies;
2) media: both how journalism and broadcast media are practiced and their impact on society and public policy; and
3) libraries and information: how people find and use information, how information systems are built, and how society, including particularly schools and children, exploit and gain from libraries.
Our school studies and responds to the technological revolutions which are changing libraries, publications, and communication. We emphasize interdisciplinary activities, globally oriented research, and scholarship that studies people and their roles as well as information, institutions, and the workplace.
The School of Communication and Information teaches undergraduates, master's students and Ph.D. candidates, and it has both on-campus and distance learning educational programs. The school has approximately 50 full-time faculty, and teaches each year several hundred undergraduate and several hundred master's students, plus a current Ph.D. enrollment of about 100 students.
Specific research centers include the Center for Media Studies, the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, the Center for International Scholarship in School Libraries, the University Center for Organizational Development and Leadership, the Journalism Resources Institute, the Center for Communication and Health Issues, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Information Policy and Security.