Communication Division

Current News

• www.pepperdine-graphic.com

• Communication Graduates' Guide to Reality:  Pepperdine alumna and graduate give a guide to post-college life

• Constitutional scholar and Obama advisor Doug Kmiec blogged about his inauguration experiences for the Graphic, Pepperdine's student newspaper.  Visit www.pepperdine-graphic.com to follow his coverage, and read student journalist Ashlyee Hickman's report from the press section at the inauguration.

• Dr. Gary Selby Named Director of Center for Faith and Learning

• Gary Selby authored a new book titled Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights. more

• Gary Selby wrote an essay titled "Mocking the Sacred: Frederick Douglass's 'Slaveholders Sermon' and the Antebellum Debate over Religion and Slavery," which was published in the newly released anthology, Readings on Political Communication (Strata Press). The article was previously published in Quarterly Journal of Speech (2002).

• John Jones coauthored an article titled "Recasting the American Dream and American Politics: Barack Obama's Keynote Address to the Democratic National Convention," which was accepted for publication and will appear in Volume 93 of Quarterly Journal of Speech.  Jones also had two articles selected for publication in the Encyclopedia of Political Communication:  one on Barack Obama and the other on Ronald Reagan.

• Communication Graduate Students Selected for National Debate Team

• New Major and Minor:  Rhetoric and Leadership

• Earn a Bachelor's Degree & a Master of Arts in Communication in 5 years!  Click Here for Deadline & Click Here for an Application