<p>Is it how to get your message across to others? Listening? Psychology?</p>
<p>Most of the time a “communications” department is split up into several different majors. </p>
<p>For example, I am an advertising major, which is part of my school’s communication department… </p>
<p>What you are probably talking more about is a “strategic communication” degree, which focusses on Public speaking, public relations work, and similar things… Pretty much it is teaching how to convince people of one point of view or another. Pretty much your first guess was.</p>