Business Core (6 courses)

Note: ECO115 requires students to have taken MAT114 prior to or at the same time. The course also requires successful prior completion of the one-credit CSC110 or a passing score on an Excel placement exam.

Area II: Writing Course (1 course)

Area III: Core Communication Courses (3 courses)

Area IV: Internship Capstone (1 course)

Area V: Major Electives (4 courses, limit 1 from outside the Department of Business Studies

Other courses which support the organizational communication knowledge base as approved by the department chairperson.

*If not taken to fulfill the Area II writing course requirement

Course Descriptions

• Academic Catalog & Advising Guide
• Major in Organizational Communication Course Descriptions

As a major in Communication and Media, you will learn to read television, radio, and film productions (as well as websites) as constructed texts, while developing your own voice as a writer and your skills in radio and television production.  Majors in Communication and Media can specialize in journalism and professional writing, creative writing, media production, or create their own specialization. Several specialty courses also count towards the minor in graphic design.  In 2019, 100% of our Communication and Media graduates were employed or enrolled in addition education within six months of graduation.

Learning Goals of Major in Communication and Media

1. To pose questions and employ methods specific to the field of communication studies and to explore the implications of these ways of knowing; 
2. To read film, audio, and printed texts critically and empathetically, recognizing the significance, quality, and consequences of images and language; 
3. To write and speak effectively, exhibiting an awareness of audience; 
4. To ask ethical questions about others’ and one’s own communication practices and the tensions and consequences that result from various rhetorical decisions;  to consider how communication strategies impact students’ own values and ways of being in the world; 
5. To gain a more informed and global understanding of cultural and historical differences; 
6. To take intellectual risks, to synthesize the questions and approaches of the discipline they have learned, and to take responsibility for their own learning. To become lifelong active and engaged learners.