Communication Studies
The major requires a minimum of 30 hours and leads to a Bachelor of Arts Degree.
- Complete COMM 161 or COMM 145 and ENG 100 with a minimum grade of "C"
- Minimum GPA of 2.3
- A minor or second major outside the department is required along with completion of General Education Classes (Work with an Advisor to select your minor or second major).
- General Education Requirement: COMM 263 - Fundamentals of Comm. and Culture (Category E)
Required Courses:
- COMM 148 Interpersonal Communication
- BCOM 201 Process & Effects of Mass Communication
- COMM 247 Voice and Diction
- COMM 341 Theories of Communication
- COMM 345 Advanced Public Speaking (SCOM 145 or 161)
- COMM 494 Capstone in Communication
One of the following:
- COMM 349 Group Decision Making
- COMM 461 Organizational Communication
One of the following:
- COMM 240 Critical Listening
- COMM 343 Speech Analysis/Speech Writing
- COMM 443 Persuasion in Contemporary Society
Two additional courses chosen in consultation with Advisor from any course not selected in above or following list:
- COMM 245 Argumentation & Debate
- COMM 249 Oral Interpretation of Literature
- COMM 346 Persuasion
- COMM 363 Interracial Communication
- COMM 460 Organizational Interviewing
- COMM 463 Intercultural Communication
- COMM 474 Gender Differences in Communication
- COMM 489 Cooperative Education in Communication
- COMM 495 Independent Study in Communication
- COMM 142-444 Forensic Practicum (up to 3 hrs in these 1 hr. Practicums)