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Nov 03, 2024
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Xavier University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 2024-2025
Communication Studies, B.A.
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Communication Studies students have the opportunity to gain the knowledge and practical skills necessary to promote effective communication processes within public and private organizations. The program emphasizes both written and oral communication, and students are encouraged to prepare themselves for a broad range of employment possibilities in areas such as sales, special events planning, human resources, industrial relations, training, and management.
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Major Requirements:
36 credit hours, as follows TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours
B.A., Communication Studies
Fall Semester
- CORE 101: Goa
- COMM 101: Oral Comm (OC Flag)
- English Composition or Rhetoric
- Second Language I
- CORE 100: First-Year Seminar
- MATH 116: Math Perspectives
Spring Semester
- CORE 102: Goa
- COMM 123: Intro to Comm & Media
- Historical Perspectives
- Second Language II
- THEO 111: Theological Foundations
- PHIL 100: Ethics as Intro to Philosophy
Fall Semester
- COMM 207: Interpersonal Communication
- COMM ST. ELECTIVE A: (221, 260, or 270)
- Creative Perspectives
- PHIL 200: Philosophical Perspectives
- Social Science Elective
Spring Semester
- COMM 206: Writing for the Media (Writing flag)
- ENGL 205: Lit & the Moral Imagination
- Theology Perspectives (THEO 200+)
- Scientific Perspectives
- Natural Science Elective
Fall Semester
- COMM 264: Persuasion
- COMM 329: Comm Research (Quant. Flag)
- COMM 360: Advanced Organizational Comm.
- General Elective
- General Elective
Spring Semester
- COMM 209: Group Dynamics (Diversity Flag)
- COMM ST. ELECTIVE B: (323, 324, 385 or 433)
- Humanities Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Fall Semester
- COMM 301: Presentational Speaking
- ERS Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Spring Semester
- COMM 469: Comm Studies Senior Seminar
- CORE 499: CORE Capstone Reflection
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Note(s):
- A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in the communication arts courses of the major.
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