May 19, 2021 Brendi Bluitt’s capstone for her Master’s degree was a Directed Project completed for the Isabella Santos Foundation, which is a Charlotte-based non-profit focused on raising awareness and funding for rare pediatric cancer. Her project used autoethnography and in-depth interviews with cancer survivors to determine salient topics surrounding social support for this population. […]

May 11, 2021 2021 DEPARTMENT EZINE Included in this year’s issue:

January 14, 2014 Kristen Okamoto, MA graduate 2013, recently presented a talk at Ohio University on ethnographic field research. Okamoto is a doctorial student at Ohio University. 

December 4, 2020 Join us for a virtual open house for the M.A. program in Communication Studies at UNC Charlotte! The event will be held on Wednesday, December 16th from 2:00-3:00pm EST. The open house will be hosted by Dr. Erin Basinger, Graduate Program Director, and current graduate student, Brendi Bluitt. During the open house, they will overview […]

June 5, 2020 The Communication Studies community has been grieved and outraged over the recent racist events unfolding nationally. Over the past week, a diverse and inclusive ad hoc committee of the Communication Studies faculty crafted a Statement of Support for Racial Justice in response to these events. The statement is linked here and it includes comments of support […]