History
Since its inception in 1975, the Communication Research program has included courses designed to develop scholarship, skills, proficiency, and professionalism among its students. In addition, the Department undertakes research and extension activities benefiting stakeholders from sectors within and beyond the academe.
The UP CMC Department of Communication Research is the only recipient of the Center of Excellence (COE) in Communication by the Philippine Commission on Higher Education (CHED), the highest recognition for a tertiary-level program in the country.
As the pioneer academic unit offering undergraduate and graduate programs in Communication Research, the Department has built a positive reputation such that schools of communication around the country have sent their faculty and staff as students to its graduate programs (i.e., M.A. Communication and Ph.D. Communication) and as trainees in short-term courses. Of the undergraduate programs of the College, it is Communication Research that is regarded as the most rigorous and strictest in its grading system. Moreover, the program has a social scientific orientation.
Mission and Vision
The Department’s vision statement, oriented and inculcated in all Department stakeholders, is to be:
An inspiring and influential leader in communication scholarship: unraveling, interrelating, and giving coherence to the symbolic and structural environment; pioneering critical and creative communication solutions and innovations; and enabling meaningful citizenship in Philippine society and the global community.
In line with this vision, the Department’s mission is outlined as the following:
- Instruction. Ensure curricular relevance astride other departments of the College of Mass Communication. Project core values of excellence in instruction and research, engendering an interdisciplinary attitude.
- Research. Develop and promote basic and applied communication studies. Advise and supervise the thesis programs of communication research undergraduate and graduate students in terms of direction, thrust, and incentive.
- Extension. Establish working linkages with other institutions, organizations, groups, and individuals in view of attendant and subsidiary departmental concerns.
The Department goals are articulated as:
The Department seeks to be a dynamic, sufficiently funded, extensively networked, and well-marketed Institute for Communication Studies (ICS) offering academic degree programs as well as research and extension services within the next decade.