4 additional grade 12 academic or advanced level courses
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General Transfer Student Requirements
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Make Communication The Key To Your Success
Communication helps the world work together. It helps people see the world more clearly, and helps to create mutual understanding. This is especially true when your world is an island wonderland filled with unlimited opportunity and intellectual resources. That’s Cape Breton and this is CBU – a place where you can learn to communicate with efficiency, respect and effectiveness. Here, you leverage your naturally existing communication skills to amplify and expand your other communication-based talents.
Clear and creative communication is critically important for safe, stable communities and workplaces. That’s why we’re proud to say Cape Breton University offers the only communication major in the Maritimes.
The theories and skills learned in our program are essential for successful careers, healthy relationships and the development of a deep understanding of communication and its functions in society. Through our on-campus and distance courses, communication students explore various areas of interpersonal and public communication, media studies and cultural studies. These dynamic and energetic environments allow students to develop the skills and knowledge base needed to critically examine and understand communication in all aspects of society.
At CBU, our modern facilities and experienced faculty guide you through the intricacies of communication. This includes areas that touch on relationships, communities, culture, history and technology. We believe communication is ever-changing and evolving, so our faculty continue to stay up-to-date by exploring the impact that new technologies, practices and forms have on our daily lives.
With the guidance of a communication lab peer facilitator, students work in small groups and participate in dynamic, hands-on activities and discussions. These discussions help them put into practice the communication theories and skills they study in the classroom. Peer facilitators are upper-level students who have excelled in their studies and have a passion for helping other students develop as communicators. Peer facilitators take our communication facilitation courses and receive training to gain personal and professional experience in this unique leadership role.
What skills will I gain from this program?
Critical thinking and reflection skills
Conflict management / resolution
Effective public speaking skills
Effective interpersonal communication skills
Media literacy and analytic approaches to media messages
Leadership, team building and collaborative working skills
Ability to apply communication theory in wide-ranging contexts
Possible Career Paths
Public relations/corporate communication
Social work
Human resources
Community leadership
Teaching
Multimedia industries
Related Contacts
Michael MacDonald Assistant Professor SASS - Communication & Languages Michael_MacDonald@cbu.ca 902-563-1635
Felix Odartey-Wellington Professor SASS - Communication & Languages Felix_Odartey@cbu.ca 902-563-1234
Judy Rolls Professor, Communication Communication and Languages Judy_Rolls@cbu.ca 902-563-1245
Dawn White Senior Lab Coordinator SASS - Communication & Languages Dawn_White@cbu.ca 902-563-1627
