2022-2023 Catalog

 

Human Communication Studies - B.A.

Requirements (46 credits)

Cognate (6 credits)

Choose 6 units at 200 level or above from SOC, PSY, or POL with Division approval.

Division Core (12 credits)

COM-105Communication in Context

1

COM-329Media and Society

3

COM-340Communication Theory

3

COM-479Communications Senior Seminar I

1

COM-480Communications Senior Seminar II

3

Choose one Communication Lab

COM-116JCommunication Lab-Journalism

1

COM-116PCommunication Lab-Public Relations

1

COM-116RCommunication Lab-Radio

1

COM-116TCommunication Lab-Theatre

1

COM-116VCommunication Lab-Television

1

Each section of COM-116 may be repeated up to 8 times.

Electives (12 credits)

COM-209Small Group Communication

3

COM-233Principles of Public Relations

3

COM-326Conflict Communication

3

COM-366Organizational Communication

3

COM-445Communication Internship

3

Foreign Language (6 credits)

Foreign Language requirement - all students will be required to take 6 hours of one foreign language at the college level. (For students taking Mandarin Chinese courses, three hours of Mandarin Chinese will satisfy the Intercultural Experience requirement. However, Spanish and French courses currently do not meet the intercultural Experience requirement.) The following exceptions and guidelines will be used to implement the 6-hour foreign language requirement:

  • Students for whom English is a second language will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
  • Students who have completed four years of high school foreign language with no grade below a "C" will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
  • Students who pass a foreign language competency test at a level equivalent to four semesters of a single language (Intermediate 2) will be exempt from the 6-hour foreign language requirement.
  • Students who pass a foreign language competency test at a level equivalent to three semesters of a single language (Intermediate 1) will be exempt from 3 hours of the 6-hour foreign language requirement and will satisfy the other 3 hours by completing the Intermediate 2 course.
  • Students will be allowed to transfer college credit hours to satisfy the foreign language requirement.

Major Requirements (16 credits)

COM-227Research Methods in Communication

3

COM-280Intercultural Communication

3

COM-300Communication Research Practicum

1 to 2

COM-321Persuasion

3

COM-352Interpersonal Communication

3

COM-370Symbols and Imaging

3

COM-300 may be repeated up to 8 times.

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