<P> Communication studies shares with cultural studies an interest in how messages are interpreted through the political, cultural, economic, semiotic, hermeneutic, and social dimensions of their contexts . In political economics, communication studies examines how the politics of ownership affects content . Quantitative communication studies examines statistics in order to help substantiate claims . </P> <P> Communication science began in earnest when students of Wilbur Schramm--the founder of the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois--namely David Berlo, came to Michigan State University and founded the first General Communication Arts department in the early 1950s . Though there are other communication sciences departments elsewhere, Michigan State was the first department in the US that was dedicated solely to the study of communication sciences using a quantitative approach . It is still one of Michigan State's strongest programs and nationally ranked in the study of human communication . </P> <P> Communication studies integrates aspects of both social sciences and the humanities . As a social science, the discipline overlaps with sociology, psychology, anthropology, biology, political science, economics, and public policy . From a humanities perspective, communication is concerned with rhetoric and persuasion (traditional graduate programs in communication studies trace their history to the rhetoricians of Ancient Greece). Humanities approaches to communication often overlap with history, philosophy, english, and cultural studies . </P> <P> Undergraduate curricula aim to prepare students to interrogate the nature of communication in society, and the development of communication as a specific field . </P>

Why do we consider journalism and communication studies as fields of the applied social science
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