Requirements for the Communications minor:
- MEDA 110, Intro to Communication 4 credits
- MEDA electives (any MEDA courses listed below), 8 credits
- Category 1 Electives Perceiving Self and Culture courses, 4 credits
- Category 2 Electives Oration and Performance courses, 4 credits
- Category 3 Electives Mediated Communication courses, 4 credits
A minimum of 8 credits must be upper division, four of which must be from courses in the Media Arts. Student majoring in the Media Arts may pursue the communications minor; however, courses already counting towards the major may not be counted towards the minor.
Total: 24 Credits
Perceiving Self & Culture
- ANTH 317 Sociology of Popular Culture | 4 credits
- IS 201 Intercultural Communication | 4 credits
- IS 305 West Meets East: Developing Intercultural Competency | 4 credits
- MEDA 201 Interpersonal Communication | 4 credits
- PSY 160 Culture & Behavior | 4 credits
- PSY 308 Social Psychology | 4 credits
- SOC 208 Race: Inequality and Identity | 4 credits
- SOC 217 Gender & Sexuality | 4 credits
Oration & Performance
- MEDA 101 Fundamentals of Speaking | 2 credits
- MEDA 335 Advanced Speaking & Presentations | 2 credits
- MEDA 351 Advanced Intercollegiate Forensics | 2 credits
- THEA 110 Acting I: Fundamentals | 2 credits
- THEA 385 Eco-Theatre: Community & Perf. | 4 credits
Mediated Communication
- ANTH 202 Film, Text and Culture | 4 credits
- MEDA 112 Media in Society | 4 credits
- MEDA 122 Introduction to Digital Media | 2 credits
- MEDA 220 Film and Society | 2 credits
- MEDA 401 Narrative Film Theory & Criticism | 4 credits
- POLS 221 Politics in Literature & Film | 2 credits
- POLS 301 Politics & the Media | 4 credits