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Department of Communication and Media Studies
The Department of Communication and Media Studies aims to educate students in all aspects of human communication. Our goal is to produce graduates who can think critically, reason morally, write and speak with precision and impact, and present performances in a variety of media to audiences of all types. We offer majors and minors in Communication and Mass Communication/Journalism (with concentrations in Public Relations and in Broadcasting) and majors in Speech Education and Performance Studies. Our Mass Communication degrees are complemented by lab work on the Bells, the UMHB student newspaper, and on the Bluebonnet, the university yearbook, as well as internships at a variety of local newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations. Our Communication and Speech Education degrees are supported by a growing and successful inter-collegiate forensics and speech competition team. Our Performance Studies program produces short films as well as one-person stage performances and internet webcasts.
Major in Communication, B.A. degree
A major in Communication is 36 semester hours.
Academic Foundation
| ENGL 1321 & 1322 Rhetoric & Composition | 6 |
| English Literature | 6 |
| COMM 1320 Public Speaking | 3 |
| Humanities/Fine Arts | 3 |
| Social Sciences | 12 |
| Foreign Language (one language) | 14 |
| MATH 1306 or higher | 3 |
| Mathematics and/or Laboratory Science | 3-4 |
| CSBS 1311 & 1312 Old & New Testament Survey | 6 |
| Exercise and Sport Science (two activity courses) | 2 |
| Electives | 6 |
| Total | 64-65 |
Required Communication Courses
| COMM 1320 Public Speaking | 3 |
| COMM 1340 Introduction to Speech Performance | 3 |
| COMM 1350 Business Speech | 3 |
| COMM 2320 Introduction to Mass Media | 3 |
| COMM 2350 Advanced Public Speaking | 3 |
| COMM 2360 Introduction to Journalism | 3 |
| COMM 3310 Persuasion | 3 |
| COMM 3350 Forensics and Competitive Speech | 3 |
| COMM 3365 Advanced Journalism | 3 |
| COMM 3380 Voice and Diction | 3 |
| COMM 3390 Introduction to Film Studies | 3 |
| COMM 4380 Special Problems in Communication | 3 |
| Total | 36 |
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