Welcome to the UCLA Department of Communication. Our department is focused on the social scientific study of communication, broadly defined. Our work covers many areas including interpersonal communication and cognition, human-computer interaction, evolution and human behavior, artificial intelligence and computational modeling, mass communication, and political communication. These themes are the focus of our faculty research, our graduate and undergraduate programs, and our departmental speaker series.

Je Hoon Chae Wins Top Student Paper Award!

The Department of Communication would like to congratulate third-year…

Congratulations to Graduate Advisor Zachary Burwell for Thomas E. Lifka Excellence Award!

Our own Zack Burwell was awarded at the annual Thomas E. Lifka…

Thanks to our awesome Freshman Bruin Day student volunteers!

Christine Cheng Mikiah Aubert Sofia Pacheco Tabitha…

Social networks and voter turnout

Accuracy in Social Judgment

Method to Theory

Information and Democracy

The pandemic exposes human nature

Alliance Theory of Political Belief Systems