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Communication Minor

HFA PEAK

Minor Requirements

15 credits

Rhetorical Core (6 credits)

COM-100Communication & Culture

3 credits
COM-101Foundations of Public Advocacy

3 credits

Methods (3 credits)

COM-250Criticism as Praxis

3 credits

Topics (6 credits)

Complete 6 credits from the following.

ART-111Ways of Seeing

3 credits
COM-111Foundations of Journalism: From Guttenberg to Instagram

3 credits
COM-290Competitive Forensics

1 credit
COM-299TSpecial Topics in Communication

1 -3 credits
COM-320Communicating Gender and Sexuality

3 credits
COM-360Topics in the Philosophy of Communication

3 credits
COM-399TSpecial Topics in Communication

1-3 credits
COM-490Advanced Forensics Competition

1 credit
PHI-150Critical Reasoning

3 credits
PHI-214Introduction to Logic

3 credits
PHI-309Feminist Philosophy

3 credits
THE-200Introduction to Film Studies

3 credits
THE-215Acting Fundamentals

3 credits
THE-216Voice and Diction

3 credits

COM-290: Up to 4 credits may count toward this requirement.

COM-490: Up to 4 credits may count toward this requirement.

Any COM course not counted elsewhere in the program may count toward this requirement.

 

Outcomes

  1. Demonstrate engagement with humanistic inquiry through the application of theory and methodology (appropriate to discipline) to cultures, texts, or artifacts.
    1. Describe the communication discipline and its central questions. (100)
    2. Employ communication theories, perspectives, principals, and concepts. (100; 250)
    3. Engage in communication inquiry. (100; 101; 250)
    4. Critically analyze messages. (100; 250)
  2. Provide evidence of their own artistic work and active engagement with the creative process.
    1. Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context. (101; 250)
    2. Understand the importance of audience, purpose, and context in their cognitive, affective, and aesthetic dimensions. (101)
    3. Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals.(101; 250)
  3. Demonstrate engagement with non-dominant cultures and cultural products.
    1. Apply ethical communication principles and practices. (100; 101; 250)
    2. Utilize communication to embrace difference. (100; 101; 250)
  4. Influence public discourse.(100; 101; 250)