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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Department of Communication Studies of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records #40454, University Archives, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received August 2015 from the Department of Communication Studies (RT 20150831.1).

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• Communication--Study and teaching--North Carolina--Chapel Hill.
• Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Departments.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Curricula.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Communication Studies.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Radio, Television, & Motion Pictures.
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Department of Speech Communication.

• Department of Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (40086)
• Department of Speech Communication of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records (40455)

The Department of Communication Studies was created in 1993 when the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures (RTVMP) and the Department of Speech Communication merged. Areas of study supported by the Department include organization, communication, media studies, performance, rhetoric, technology, and media, writing for stage and screen.

Records include correspondence and other materials documenting the administration of the department. This collection includes some records from the Departments of RTVMP and Speech Communication that predate the merger.