Why I Chose Communications Studies

My motivation for studying communication is to better serve our nation.  I would like to be able to communicate across a wide range of situations with the media.  If we think about it, our whole day is spent in a kind of communications, whether it is listening, talking, reading, or writing.  With a communication degree, there are lots of jobs to choose from.   

Some of the benefits that the understanding of communication gives us in our personal life are to help us communicate better with family, friends, a mate, neighbors, etc.  To better understand who we communicate with on a daily basis and to avoid any misunderstandings, conflicts, and anything that might cause us problems.  It is very important to be able to know how to express yourself to others and when to do so.  In our professional lives, communication embraces knowledge and focuses on how people use messages to generate meaning within various cultures, channels, contexts, and the media.   Communications plays a significant role in many jobs such as management, sales, mediator, etc.     

The definition that comes closest to my own personal definition of communication is that speech communication is a human process through which we make sense out of the world and share that sense with others.  That’s the definition that comes closest to me because I believe that in order to have a successful communication with others, we need to share our feelings, opinions, ideas, etc., with others so that they can better understand us.

"Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people." - William Butler Yeats