Smaller communities within NCA's large membership provide a range of resources including networking opportunities, Annual Convention programming, leadership opportunities, awards, and specialized information dissemination channels, among others.
Divisions are made up of colleagues who share an interest in an area of substantive inquiry. NCA sponsors 50 divisions.
Sections include colleagues who share common professional settings. NCA sponsors seven sections.
Caucuses represent historically underrepresented demographic groups in terms of gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and ability. NCA sponsors nine caucuses.
Click on the links below to learn about individual interest groups
- Activism and Social Justice Division
- African American Communication and Culture Division
- American Studies Division
- Applied Communication Division
- Argumentation and Forensics Division
- Asian/Pacific American Communication Studies Division
- Basic Course Division
- Communication and Aging Division
- Communication and the Future Division
- Communication and Law Division
- Communication and Military Division
- Communication and Sport Division
- Communication Anxiety and Apprehension Division
- Communication Assessment Division
- Communication as Social Construction Division
- Communication Ethics Division
- Communication and Social Cognition Division
- Critical and Cultural Studies Division
- Death and Dying Division
- Economics, Communication, and Society Division
- Environmental Communication Division
- Ethnography Division
- Experiential Learning in Communication Division
- Family Communication Division
- Feminist and Gender Studies Division
- Freedom of Expression Division
- Game Studies Division
- Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Communication Studies Division
- Group Communication Division
- Health Communication Division
- Human Communication and Technology Division
- Instructional Development Division
- International and Intercultural Communication Division
- Interpersonal Communication Division
- Language and Social Interaction Division
- Latino/Latina Communication Studies Division
- Mass Communication Division
- Nonverbal Communication Division
- Organizational Communication Division
- Peace and Conflict Communication Division
- Performance Studies Division
- Philosophy of Communication, Theory, and Critique Division
- Political Communication Division
- Public Address Division
- Public Dialogue and Deliberation Division
- Public Relations Division
- Rhetorical and Communication Theory Division
- Spiritual Communication Division
- Theatre, Film, and New Multi-Media Division
- Training and Development Division
- Visual Communication Division
- Interest Group Orientation (Requires NCA Member Email and Password)
- Interest Group Orientation PowerPoint
- Interest Group Discussion Jamboard
- Interest Group Manual - 2024
- Interest Group Reimbursement Form
- Interest Group Award Check Request Form
- Interest Group Certificate Template
- 2024 Interest Group Catering Request Form
- 2024 Interest Group Annual Report