The University of Maine - Communication and Journalism

Welcome to Communication and Journalism

The Department’s primary educational mission is to offer challenging liberal arts degree programs that include the personal and professional practices and the social contexts of communication, mass communication, and journalism. Through the study of human communication we seek to understand and to improve the human condition. The Department fulfills this liberal arts mission through its undergraduate programs in Communication, Mass Communication, and Journalism, and through its graduate programs in Communication and Mass Communication.

**Curricular Changes in the Majors, effective, 2010-2011**
The Department of Communication and Journalism will be implementing new requirements in each of its three majors (Communication, Mass Communication, and Journalism). Please see this page for more information.

**Catalog Descriptions of revised and new CMJ courses**
Please see this page for course descriptions, effective Fall 2010.

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**Academic Calendar**
September 3, 2010: Last day to add a course.
September 13, 2010: Last day to drop a course.

**Fall 2010 CMJ Research Colloquia**
September 20, 2010
"Sign of Pathology: Abortion and U.S. Medical Rhetoric, 1880s to 1960s" A Talk by Nathan Stormer, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Maine.
12:10pm in 424 Dunn Hall

September 27, 2010
"Useful Knowledge For Sustainability Science: Place-based Cultural Research on the Yellowstone River," A Talk by Damon Hall, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Maine Sustainability Solutions Initiative.
12:10pm in 424 Dunn Hall