Communication Concentration/Distance Learning - Speech Comm./Distance Learning - Communicating Arts - Academic Departments

Communicating Arts Department

University of Wisconsin-Superior

Holden Fine and Applied Arts Center 2100
Belknap and Catlin
P.O. Box 2000
Superior, WI 54880

ph. 715-394-8369

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Communication Concentration/Distance Learning

Communicating Arts Major - Communication Concentration Requirements

Communication Program Description

The Communication concentration allows students to explore how social interaction powerfully shapes our everyday personal and professional lives, including how we form and negotiate relationships in groups, communities, and cultures. Coursework offers a complex contemporary understanding of communication as it occurs by diverse communicators. Students prepare themselves to participate creatively and analytically in our ever-changing world.

33 total credits

Communicating Arts core courses (12 credits required):

COMM 167	Introduction to Intercultural Communication -- 3 credits
COMM 254	Communication Inquiry -- 3 credits
COMM 211	Interpersonal Communication -- 3 credits
COMM 495	Special Topics Seminar -- 3 credits
COMM 491	Capstone Participation -- 0 credits Capstone Statement: Courses available to be paired with COMM 491 for identification as capstone experience with consent of advisor (minimum 3 credits) include: COMM 332, 356, 425, 467, 495, 498 -- 3 credits

Theatre Electives (3 credits required):

COMM 125	Beginning Acting -- 3 credits
COMM 273	Oral Interpretation -- 3 credits

Media Electives (3 credits required):

COMM 104	Film and Culture - 3 credits
COMM 170	Media and Society - 3 credits

Communicating Arts Electives (15 credits required):

COMM 251	Persuasion -- 3 credits
COMM 332	Communication in Conflict -- 3 credits
COMM 356	Community Engagement in Ghana -- 1-6 credits
COMM 368	Criticism of Film and Television -- 3 credits
COMM 376	Group Communication Processes -- 3 credits
COMM 377	Special Topics in Theatre (Box Office Only) -- 3 credits
COMM 391	Advanced Practicum -- 1-6 credits
COMM 425	Communicating Gender -- 3 credits
COMM 455	Theorizing Media Culture -- 3 credits
COMM 467	Advanced Intercultural Communication -- 3 credits
COMM 475	Internship -- 3-12 credits
COMM 498	Independent Study -- 1-6 credits

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Courses in the program are taught by instructors in the Department of Communicating Arts, sharing extensive personal experience in the communications professions.

Ready to apply? Submit your application through the University of Wisconsin online application at http://apply.wisconsin.edu. Select the University of Wisconsin-Superior and the Communicating Arts On-Line Major.

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