Communication Studies Department

Facts About the Department
A Recent Snapshot

• Number of tenure and tenure-track faculty: 16
• Number of lecturers: 25
• Number of Teaching Associates: 14
• Number of undergraduate majors: approximately 400
• Number of graduate students: approximately 50
• Number of Graduate Assistants: 2
• Average number of graduate courses per semester: 4-5
• Average number of undergraduate upper division courses per semester: 38
• Communication Studies is the second-largest department in the College of Humanities in terms of the number of students taught, and the third-largest in terms of the number of faculty and number of BA degrees awarded.
• In recent years Communication Studies was among the top ten programs to grant the B.A. degree at SF State.