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.
A minor in Mass Communication/Journalism is 18 semester hours consisting of COMM 2320, 2360, 3365, 3368, 3390, and 4340.
| COMM 2320 Introduction to the Mass Media | 3 |
| COMM 2360 Introduction to Journalism | 3 |
| COMM 3365 Advanced Journalism | 3 |
| COMM 3368 Broadcast Writing | 3 |
| COMM 3390 Introduction to Film Studies | 3 |
| COMM 4340 Law and Regulations of the Mass Media | 3 |
| Total | 18 |
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