2024 - 2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog 
    
    Dec 03, 2024  
2024 - 2025 Undergraduate Academic Catalog

Communication Studies, Rhetoric & Advocacy track, B.A.


To graduate with a major in Communication Studies: Rhetoric & Advocacy students must take a minimum of 36 credit hours and satisfy the requirements outlined in each course category below. Students must also have at least a 2.00 grade point average for courses used to satisfy major requirements.
 
Communication Studies: Rhetoric & Advocacy Majors complete foundational courses, rhetoric and advocacy courses, and engaged learning experiences for a total of at least 36 hours in the major.

Foundational Courses:


All Communication Studies majors complete the following two courses:

Rhetoric & Advocacy Courses


Students electing the Rhetoric & Advocacy track complete a minimum of 6 courses:

Two additional courses in communication studies (COM) above the 300 level


These courses are intended to be selected with the communication studies advisor and in consideration of a student’s purposeful pathway in the major. In addition to selecting courses listed in the track above, many rhetoric and advocacy students fulfill these requirements with courses such as: 

Engaged Learning Experience:


All communication studies majors complete at least 4 credit hours in culminating experiences: