Welcome to my home page

James F. Klumpp

Professor Emeritus

Department of Communication

University of Maryland

I am Professor Emeritus in the Department of Communication. This home page includes material on courses I taught while at the university and examples from my research program which continues.

You may read about my . . .

Teaching

Information about courses that I taught during my tenure at Maryland.

Research

A description of my research interests and hyperlinks to some of my writing. A full list of my publications and presentations is available in my Curriculum Vita.

Other information about our department

The Department of Communication at UM is located in the Skinner Building up the hill from the Chapel on the College Park campus. We have a faculty of 23, approximately 650 majors, and around sixty graduate students. We are a nationally oriented program and have four specialties ranked in the top-ten of Communication doctoral programs (public relations is ranked #1; intercultural #5; rhetorical studies #7; and political communication #8) in the United States. We offer the BA, MA, and PhD degrees and also offer an interdisciplinary minor in rhetoric in cooperation with the Department of English. We are one of 22 units in the College of Arts and Humanities.

Information on our undergraduate major and our graduate program are available on our departmental website.