Communications Major
Major Competencies
- Graduates collaborate in aesthetic communities by articulating how communications affects professional, public life.
- Graduates can use frameworks of criticism to analyze and evaluate messages in various forms of media.
- Graduates use sophisticated stylistic choices in oral and written communication.
Courses
Part 1: General Education Core
(See Core Studies Requirements)
Part 2: Communications Major
36 credits (minimum), no more than 9 of which may be used to satisfy Core Studies requirements; 18 credits in residence, 18 credits upper division. Required:
| COMM 210 | Journalism Principles and Techniques | 3 |
| COMM 211 | Copy Editing | 3 |
| COMM 300 | Communications Theory: Models and Messages | 3 |
| COMM 385 | Introduction to Critical Strategies | 3 |
| COMM 390 | Visual Communication | 3 |
| COMM 450 | Ethical Theory for Writing and Reading | 3 |
| COMM 350 | Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction | 3 |
| OR COMM 351 | Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction | 3 |
| COMM 125/325 | Literary Magazine Production | 1 |
| DR/SA 240 | Oral Interpretation | 3 |
| OR SA 210 | Fundamentals of Speech | 3 |
| EN 215/315 | Global Literature | 3 |
| OR EN 245/345 | Urban Literature | 3 |
| EN/DR 250/349 | Understanding Film and its Forms | 3 |
| EN 325 | Rogues and Rebels: Survey of Literature in English to 1815 | 3 |
| OR EN 326 | Romantics and Realists: Survey of Literature in English 1815 to Present | 3 |
| HUM 391/392 | Humanities Internship | 3 |
