Departmental Required Courses (12 Credit
Hours)
COM 110, Public Speaking
COM 230, Communication Theory
COM 240, Communication Inquiry
COM 250, Communication and Information Technology
COM 230, 240 and 250 MUST be taken one semester at a
time, in sequence. These serve as prerequisites for much of
the upper-level curriculum. ONLY COM majors are
eligible to take COM 230, 240 and 250.
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Concentration
Required Courses (6 Credit Hours)
COM 257, Media History and Theory (prerequisite: COM
230)
COM 327, Critical Analysis of Communication Media (prerequisite: COM 240,
257. Corequisite: COM 240.)
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Concentration Electives (15 Credit
Hours)
Four courses must be taken from the following
list. Students may choose to emphasize media production or media analysis
(theory, criticism and history), or they may combine courses from the two areas.
The final column
of the following table indicates if a course is predominantly
analytical (A), predominantly production-oriented (P), or a
combination of the two perspectives (P/A).
| COURSE |
COURSE TITLE |
PREREQUISITES |
P, A, P/A |
| COM 267 |
Electronic Media Writing: Theory and
Practice
(formerly COM 204) |
COM 230
|
P/A |
| COM 307 |
Digital Audio Production (formerly COM 214) |
COM 267
|
P |
| COM 317 |
Television Production (formerly COM 224) |
COM 267 |
P |
| COM 357 |
Digital Video Production (formerly 354) |
COM 267 |
P |
| COM 364 |
History of Film To 1940 |
|
A |
| COM 367 |
Multimedia Production and Digital Culture
|
COM 267 |
P/A |
| COM 374 |
History of Film From 1940 |
Junior standing |
A |
| COM 377 |
Television Writing Seminar (formerly COM 444) |
COM 267 |
P/A |
| COM 387 |
Advanced Television Production (formerly COM 324) |
COM 317 |
P/A |
| COM 417 |
Advanced Topics in Communication and Race
(Special Topics Seminar) |
COM 250 and 257 |
A |
| COM 421 |
Communication Law |
Junior standing |
A |
| COM 431 |
Communication in Political Campaigns
|
COM 110 |
A |
| COM 437 |
Digital Video Practicum (formerly COM 454) |
COM 357 |
P |
| COM 441 |
Ethical Issues in Communication |
COM 110 or 112 |
A |
| COM 447 |
Communication and Globalization |
COM 327
(Prereq. or Coreq.) |
A |
| COM 457 |
Media and the Family |
COM 327
(Prereq. or Coreq.) |
A |
| COM 467 |
Advanced Topics in Gender and Communication
(Special Topics Seminar) |
COM 327 or 362
or permission of
instructor |
A |
| COM 487 |
Internet and Society |
COM 250 and 257 |
A |
| COM 498 |
Topics in Communication
(With permission of the instructor and Coordinator of Advising or
Director of Undergraduate Studies, those concentrating in
Communication Media may count up to two 498 Topics courses toward
the four required concentration electives.) |
COM 257
|
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Departmental Elective (3 Credit
Hours)
Any Department of Communication course not being used to satisfy
other Departmental or Concentration requirements.
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