Communication Minor

HFA PEAK--

Upon successful completion of any HFA program, students will:

  • Demonstrate engagement with humanistic inquiry through the application of theory and methodology (appropriate to discipline) to cultures, texts, or artifacts.
  • Provide evidence of their own artistic work and active engagement with the creative process.
  • Demonstrate engagement with non-dominant cultures and cultural products

     

Upon successful completion of a Communication Minor, students will be able to:

  • Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
    • Explain the origins of the Communication discipline.
    • Examine contemporary debates within the field.
  • Engage in Communication inquiry.
    • Interpret Communication scholarship.
    • Evaluate Communication scholarship.
    • Apply Communication scholarship.
    • Formulate questions appropriate for Communication scholarship.
  • Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context
    • Locate and use information relevant to the goals, audiences, purposes, and contexts.
    • Select creative and appropriate modalities and technologies to accomplish communicative goals.
    • Adapt messages to the diverse needs of individuals, groups, and contexts.
    • Critically reflect on one's own messages after the communication event.
  • Critically analyze messages.
    • Identify meanings embedded in messages.
    • Recognize the influence of messages.
    • Engage in active listening.
  • Apply ethical communication principles and practices.
    • Identify ethical perspectives.
    • Articulate ethical dimensions of communicative situations.
    • Choose to communicate with ethical intention.
    • Evaluate the ethical elements of communicative situations.
  • Utilize communication to embrace difference.
    • Articulate the connection between communication and culture.
    • Recognize individual and cultural similarities and differences.
    • Appreciate individual and cultural similarities and differences.
    • Respect diverse perspectives and the ways they influence communication.
  • Influence public discourse.
    • Explain the importance of communication in civic life.
    • Identify challenges facing communities and the role of communication in resolving those challenges.
    • Utilize communication to respond to issues at the local, national, and/or global level.

15 credits

 

Minor Requirements

Rhetorical Core

SPE-101Basic Public Speaking

3 credits

SPE-201Foundations of Oral Communication

3 credits

Methods

Complete one course from the following:

SPE-240Rhetorical Criticism

3 credits

SPE-245Critical Cultural Methodology

3 credits

Course not taken to satisfy Methods requirement (SPE-240 or SPE-245) may count toward the minor's Topics requirement.

Topics

Complete 6 credits from the following. At least 3 credits must be outside the SPE designation. 

ART-111Ways of Seeing

3 credits

JOURN-200Principles and Practices of Journalism: Print

3 credits

JOURN-201Principles & Practices of Journalism: Visual

3 credits

PHI-150Critical Reasoning

3 credits

PHI-214Introduction to Logic

3 credits

PHI-309Feminist Philosophy

3 credits

SPE-199Debate I

1 credit

SPE-240Rhetorical Criticism

3 credits

SPE-245Critical Cultural Methodology

3 credits

SPE-305Paradigms in Intercultural Communication

3 credits

SPE-306Communicating Gender and Sexuality

3 credits

SPE-310Topics in the Philosophy of Communication

3 credits

SPE-399Debate II

1 credit

THE-200Introduction to Film Studies

3 credits

THE-215Acting Fundamentals

3 credits

THE-216Voice and Diction

3 credits

THE-300Gender and Sexuality in Film

3 credits

If not taken to satisfy the Methods requirement SPE-240 or SPE-245 may be count toward the Topics requirement.

SPE-199: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.

SPE-399: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.