2023-2024 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
Minor in Communication and Public Advocacy
Students minoring in communication and public advocacy study the communication individuals and groups use to advocate for specific issues and causes. Courses focus on the theories and concepts needed to express and argue for one's position in various contexts, including the evaluation of others' arguments. Students must complete 21 credit hours of course work to earn the minor, including nine credits of required courses and 12 credits of electives.
All students completing this minor are required to complete the following (9 credit hours):
- COM 201 - Speech (3 credits)
- COM 203 - Argument and Analysis (3 credits)
- COM 295 - Communication Theory (3 credits)
Students will select four of the following electives (12 credit hours):
- JBM 256 - News Reporting (3 credits)
- COM 209 - Health Communication Systems (3 credits)
- COM 210 - Nonverbal Communication (3 credits)
- COM 220 - Media Literacy (3 credits)
- COM 303 - Debate (3 credits)
- COM 376 - Communications Policy and Law (3 credits)
- COM 410 - Senior Seminar in Health Communication (3 credits)
- COM 438 - Communication Ethics (3 credits)
- INT 326/WGS 326 - Sexuality, Justice, and Advocacy (3 credits)
- PLS 301 - Poverty, Inequality, and U.S. Public Policy (3 credits)
- PLS 340 - Mass Media and American Politics (3 credits)
- PNH 270 - Public and Nonprofit Administration (3 credits)