A Communication PhD is a social science, requiring intensive research of the processes and effects of communication. Many graduates holding a Communication PhD go on to careers in academia, research, or communication related positions where strong research skills are required.
Coursework requirements for the PhD can range from 50 to 90 credits (typically taking 2-3 years) but vary depending on specific credit requirements (e.g.,
The Ph.D. in Communication Sciences and Disorders is a research-based degree designed to train doctoral candidates to become productive scholars and
Plot device used in science-fiction stories
A group mind, group ego, mind coalescence, or gestalt intelligence in science fiction is a plot device in which multiple minds, or consciousnesses, are linked into a single, collective consciousness or intelligence.
The first alien hive society was depicted in H.
G.
Wells's The First Men in the Moon (1901) while the use of human hive minds in literature goes back at least as far as David H.
Keller's The Human Termites and Olaf Stapledon's science fiction novel Last and First Men (1930), which is the first known use of the term group mind in science fiction.
The use of the phrase hive mind, however, was first recorded in 1943 in use in bee keeping and its first known use in sci-fi was James H.
Schmitz's Second Night of Summer (1950).
A group mind might be formed by any fictional plot device that facilitates brain to brain communication, such as telepathy.
