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Nov 21, 2024
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Xavier University Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 2024-2025
Public Relations, B.A.
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The Public Relations major combines comprehensive theory and specific practical skills, in the context of a humanistic liberal education, to prepare students for public relations careers in the corporate, private nonprofit, and public sectors; or for a broad range of other careers that benefit from careful thinking and clear communication.
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Major Requirements:
36 credit hours, as follows 3 hours of Elective A, select 1 course from:
3 hours of Elective B, select 1 course from:
Note(s):
- A 2.000 cumulative average must be attained in the communication arts courses of the major.
- Since the major recommends certain courses as COMM electives, it is important that students work closely with their academic advisors in the choice of these electives.
TOTAL Minimum Hours Required for Degree: 120 Semester Hours
B.A. Public Relations
This block serves as a guideline for progress toward a degree. See your academic advisor.
First Semester
- CORE 101 - Goa
- COMM 101 (OC Flag) or COMM 123
- English Composition or Rhetoric
- Second Language elective
- CORE 100 First-Year Seminar or THEO 111 Theological Foundations
- MATH 105 (Math at placement level) or MATH 116 (Math Perspectives)
Total (15)
Second Semester
- CORE 102 Goa
- COMM 101 (OC Flag) or COMM 123
- Historical Perspectives
- Second Language elective
- CORE 100 First-Year Seminar or THEO 111 Theological Foundations
- PHIL 100 Ethics as Introduction to Philosophy
Total (15)
First Semester
- Communication Course
- Creative Perspectives
- PHIL 200 Philosophical Perspectives
- Social Science elective
- Quantitative Reasoning Flag
Total (15)
Second Semester
- COMM 206 (Writing Flag)
- ENGL 205 Literature & the Moral Imagination
- Theology Perspectives (THEO 200+)
- Scientific Perspectives
- Natural Science elective
Total (15)
First Semester
- Communication Course
- Communication Course
- Diversity Flag (COMM 323, 324 or other)
- E/R & S Focus Flag (COMM 477)
- General Elective
Total (15)
Second Semester
- Communication Course
- Communication Course
- Humanities Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Total (15)
First Semester
- Communication Course
- Communication Course
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Total (15)
Second Semester
- Communication Course
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
- General Elective
Total (15)
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