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