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College of Information and Communications

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Turning technology into opportunity

The CIC is seamlessly blending artificial intelligence into the classroom — energizing research, challenging ethics and reimagining how learning is achieved.

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We prepare you for careers in the use of information for all audiences and across all media and formats. At undergraduate and graduate degree levels, we are all about information collection, dissemination and preservation in the 21st century digital world.

The Buchheit Family Lecture

Please join us for the Buchheit Family Lecture on Wednesday, April 22 at 6:30 p.m. Valerie Bauerlein, national affairs reporter at The Wall Street Journal, will deliver this year’s lecture, “Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of The Murdaugh Dynasty: A Distinctly South Carolina Story.” The lecture is free, but tickets are required.

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CIC News

We create news — research it, write it, film it, share it. But we also make it. Explore what our faculty, students and alumni are up to — winning awards, studying new trends, changing the world.

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Pathways to your future

Our students have a passion for stories. Some of them find them by combing through data and providing companies with insights into organizational goals. Others venture into communities, reporting on trends and the news of the day. This is our story.

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School of Information Science

The school is a community of students, scholars, staff and alumni dedicated to improving society through the transformation of data into information and information into knowledge.

About the iSchool
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School of Journalism and Mass Communications

We teach communication — all types — from time-tested techniques to the unbounded possibilities of digital media. We’re visual and textual, informative and persuasive, for undergraduate and graduate students.

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Information and Communication Studies

Programs of study in this unit explore how people create, share and interpret information across cultures, media and contexts. Students dive into topics from interpersonal and intercultural communication to persuasion, data storytelling, digital media and the influence of mass media — gaining the skills to think critically, communicate effectively and thrive in today’s information-driven world.

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Who We Are and What We Do

The College of Information and Communications is home to more than 140 faculty and staff, 2243 undergraduate students and 668 graduate students. Explore who we are and what we do.

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Engagement Opportunities

Once students, now alumni. Once mentees, now mentors. Once scholarship recipients. Now scholarship donors. See what "Forever to Thee" looks like.

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College of Information and Communications
800 Sumter St.
Columbia, SC 29208

803-777-6361