The Department of Communication (DC) offers the Bachelor of Arts in Communication program. The department’s vision is to train communication scholars who imbibe UP’s time-honored values of honor and excellence and to take the lead in contributing to the public good through communication practice and research.
To realize this vision, the department’s mission includes:
•Delivering an excellent communication program to ground students in theory and to develop desirable skills
•Developing communication practitioners with a high sense of ethics and civic responsibility
•Cultivating a culture of research and practice that will integrate social, cultural, and scientific approaches for the production of democratic forms of communication.
Faculty members of the department specialize in various areas of communication such as journalism, broadcast communication, and speech communication. These are also the areas of concentration in the Bachelor of Arts in Communication program.
Faculty Roster
CECILIA FE L. STA. MARIA-ABALOS
Professor of Speech Communication
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of the Philippines, 1996, 2001, 2014
MARIA RINA L. AFABLE
Associate Professor of Mass Communication
A.B., M.A., Ph.D., University of the Philippines, 1981, 1998, 2011
JETHRO BRYAN S. ANDRADA
Instructor in Communication
B.A., magna cum laude, University of the Philippines, 2023
MARKNEEL I. BALGOS
Instructor in Speech Communication
B.A., cum laude, University of the Philippines, 2019
VAL A. BALITA
Instructor in Broadcast Communication
B.A., University of the Philippines, 2020
ZENAS L. CHAPAP-DULATRE
Instructor in Journalism
B.A., University of the Philippines, 2011
CHRISTIAN EZEKIEL M. FAJARDO
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
B.A., M.A., University of the Philippines, 2007, 2016
JIMMY B. FONG
Professor of Mass Communication
B.A., cum laude, M.A., Ph.D., University of the Philippines, 1986, 1994, 2011
DENNIS V. GUTIERREZ
Assistant Professor of Broadcast Communication
B.A., University of the Philippines, 1998
STEPHANIE LUANNE R. LAGASCA
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
B.A., M.A., University of the Philippines, 2001, 2009
CARLO FRANCES H. LUAYON
Instructor in Broadcast Communication
B.A., M.A., University of the Philippines, 2016, 2025
LEIA FIDELIS GISELA F. CASTRO-MARGATE
Assistant Professor of Journalism
B.A., cum laude, M.A., University of the Philippines, 2003, 2024
Ll.B., University of the Cordilleras, 2013
BENJAMIN GEORGE P. MEAMO, III
Instructor in Speech Communication
B.A., cum laude, M.A., University of the Philippines, 2017, 2025
SHEKINAH DORELLE P. QUERI
Assistant Professor of Speech Communication
B.A., M.A., University of the Philippines, 2007, 2016
ORVILLE B. TATCHO
Associate Professor of Speech Communication
B.A., cum laude, M.A., University of the Philippines, 2011, 2017
Ph.D., The University of Alabama, 2021
DORIS B. WILSON
Assistant Professor in Speech Communication
B.A., University of the Philippines, 2013
M.A., Universiteit Utrecht, 2018
Lecturers
PAULO M. BAUTISTA
B.S., Ll.B, Saint Louis University, 2009, 2017
REBECCA C. COSTALES-DIVINAGRACIA
A.B., Saint Louis University, 1991
M.A., University of the Philippines, 1998
The BA Communication Program
Instituted in 2002, the BA Communication Program offers three areas of concentration: Broadcast Communication, Journalism, and Speech Communication. Students in the program choose a major and a minor from these areas (major in Broadcast Communication, major in Journalism, major in Speech Communication, minor in Broadcast Communication, minor in Journalism, minor in Speech Communication). The program requires a set of core communication courses for all three disciplines.