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This article deals with the organization of an interdisciplinary degree in communication in Iowa. Interdisciplinary programs are an important feature of contemporary U.S. education and they will grow in importance as knowledge proliferates and as novel syntheses of information become demanded by an increasingly complex, pluralistic and troubled society. Two administrative units at the University of Iowa, the Department of Speech and Dramatic and the School of Journalism, have developed in such a manner that each includes faculty members who see integrity in their work centering on the study of communication, broadly defined and not restricted by modality. A significant number of these scholars not only share a central concept but also employ similar methods, those of social science.