The College of Arts and Letters is one of the academic colleges at James Madison University in

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. It includes the Schools of Communication, Information, and Media, the School of Liberal Arts, and the School of Public and International Affairs.

Schools of Communication, Information and Media

The Schools of Communication, Information, and Media comprises three separate schools. These are the School of Communication (SCOM), the School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD), and the School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication (WRTC).

The School of Communication Studies (SCOM)

The School of Communication Studies (SCOM) includes seven program areas of specialization. These are Conflict Analysis and Intervention, Cultural Communication, Health Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Organizational Communication, Public Communication, Public Relations. It also includes minors in Conflict and Mediation, Cultural Communication, Health Communication, and Political Communication.

The School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD)

The School of Media Arts and Design (SMAD) offers a major in Media Arts and Design. Students accepted into the program can choose between four different concentrations: Interactive Design, Journalism, Creative Advertising, and

Digital Video Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data. This is in contrast to analog video, which represents moving visual images in the form of analog signals. Digital video comprises ...

& Cinema. It also offers minors in British Communication and Media, Creative Writing, Film Studies,

Political Communication Political communication is a subfield of communication and political science that is concerned with how information spreads and influences politics, policy makers, the news media, and citizens. Since the advent of the World Wide Web, the amount ...

, Sport Communication, and Telecommunications.

The School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication (WRTC)

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School of Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication
(WRTC) offers a major and minor in Writing, Rhetoric, and Technical Communication. Students who major in WRTC may choose to concentrate in Technical and Scientific Communication or in Writing and Rhetoric. Under these concentrations, students focus on subjects such as the study of rhetoric, web theory, publications management, design, and technical writing.

School of Liberal Arts

The School of Liberal Arts comprises the Departments of English, Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, History, Philosophy and Religion, and Sociology and Anthropology.

English

This department offers a major and minor in English. It also offers concentrations in British or

American Literature American literature is literature written or produced in the United States of America and in the colonies that preceded it. The American literary tradition thus is part of the broader tradition of English-language literature, but also inc ...

s, and World Literature.

Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

This department offers a major and minor in Modern Foreign Languages. It offers concentrations in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. It offers minors in Arabic, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and Russian. It also offers professional minors in Business French, Business German, Business Italian, Business Spanish, Law Enforcement Spanish, Legal Spanish, Medical Spanish, Spanish-English Translation and Interpretation.

History

The department of history offers a major and minor in history. It also offers concentrations in Public History, and History and Business. The department also offers a Master of Arts degree with an opportunity for concentration in three fields of history.

Philosophy and Religion

The Department of Philosophy and Religion offers a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and Religion. It also offers concentrations in Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Philosophy, Religion, and Interdisciplinary Religion Concentration.

Sociology and Anthropology

JMU's anthropology major allows for four concentrations: general anthropology, biological anthropology,

cultural anthropology Cultural anthropology is a branch of anthropology focused on the study of cultural variation among humans. It is in contrast to social anthropology, which perceives cultural variation as a subset of a posited anthropological constant. The portma ...

, and archaeology. JMU also provides linguistic anthropology courses to undergraduates.

School of Public and International Affairs

The School of Public Affairs comprises the Department of Political Science and the Department of Justice Studies.

Political Science, Public Policy and Administration, International Affairs

The Department of Political Science administers three degree programs at the undergraduate level and two degree programs at the master's level. At the undergraduate level, the department administers the B.A. in political science, the B.S. in public policy and administration, and the cross-disciplinary B.A. in international affairs. At the graduate level, it offers an M.A. in political science with a concentration in European Union Policy Studies and a master's in public administration (M.P.A.).

Justice Studies

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