Florida State University College of Communication and Information
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Florida State University's College of Communication and Information was created in a merger of the Florida State University College of Information
Florida State University College of Information
The Florida State University School of Library & Information Studies is a school within the Florida State University College of Communication and Information. The school offers programs in Information Science and Information Technology. These programs are consistently top-ranked programs in the...

 with FSU's College of Communication on July 1, 2009. The merged College of Communication & Information includes three schools:
  • The Florida State University School of Communication, established in 1967, which offers degrees and certificates in areas such as Media Studies
    Media studies
    Media studies is an academic discipline and field of study that deals with the content, history and effects of various media; in particular, the 'mass media'. Media studies may draw on traditions from both the social sciences and the humanities, but mostly from its core disciplines of mass...

    /Communication Studies
    Communication studies
    Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...

     and Media Production;
  • The Florida State University School of Communication Science and Disorders, established in the 1970's, which focuses on areas such as speech-language pathology and audiology
    Audiology
    Audiology is the branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. Its practitioners, who treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage are audiologists. Employing various testing strategies Audiology (from Latin , "to hear"; and from Greek , -logia) is...

    ; and,
  • The Florida State University School of Library and Information Studies, established in 1947, which provides degrees and certificates in areas such as Information Technology
    Information technology
    Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...

    , Library and Information Studies and Health Informatics
    Health informatics
    .Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science, and health care...

    .


Dr. Larry C. Dennis is the current dean of the Florida State University
Florida State University
The Florida State University is a space-grant and sea-grant public university located in Tallahassee, Florida, United States. It is a comprehensive doctoral research university with medical programs and significant research activity as determined by the Carnegie Foundation...

College of Communication and Information. Institutes, centers, clinics, and other special units operating within the College of Communication and Information include:
  • The Center for Hispanic Marketing Information
  • The Center for Information Management and Scientific Communication
  • Goldstein Library
  • The Information Use, Management and Policy Institute
  • L.L. Schendel Speech and Hearing Clinic
  • Partnerships Advancing Library Media (PALM) Center
  • The Project Management Center
  • Seminole Productions

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