Bachelor of Arts in Communication - Culture and Society

Communication is an interdisciplinary field that draws from the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The undergraduate Communication program focuses on the theoretical, critical, and empirical examination of fundamental communication systems, institutions, processes, and effects. Comm majors gain deep insight into how communication shapes our individual and collective social, political, economic, and cultural lives, both historical and contemporary, local and global. Our majors learn and employ a range of theories and research methods, including quantitative approaches such as survey research, experiments, content analysis, and computational science, and qualitative approaches such as historical, textual and discourse analysis, focus groups, and ethnographic fieldwork. In doing so, they produce scholarship that is rigorous, relevant, and multi-modal.

Common Application or Coalition Application & Penn-specific Essay
Official High School Transcript
School Report
Letters of Recommendation (3)
Early Decision Agreement (only if applying for Early Decision)
Mid-Year Report

Regular Decision: Must be submitted directly by the school as soon as mid-year grades are available
Final Report
Required in June for matriculating students