Advocacy and Social Change Concentration
REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS STARTING AT LOYOLA FALL 2010 OR LATER
Advocacy & Social Change track in Communication Studies
After completing this concentration, students will be able to:
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Select and use various communication strategies (including persuasion, argumentation, conflict management, negotiation and mediation) leading to ethical social change;
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Define, analyze, invent and interpret messages; and
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Demonstrate effectiveness as a rhetor, critic and decision maker.
Total Credit Hours 40
School of Communication Core (10 credit hours)
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COMM 100. SOC Seminar
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COMM 175. Intro to Communication
- COMM 200. Communication & New Media
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COMM 215. Ethics & Communication
Oral Advocay (3hrs) COMM 101 Public Speaking and Critical Thinking COMM 236 Presuasive Presentations
| Theory/Critical Analysis (6 hrs) | Applied (6 hrs) |
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| COMM 220 Introduction to Rhetoric OR COMM 268 Persuasion (choose one) and | COMM 230 Argumentation & Advocacy (required) and |
| COMM 220 Introduction to Rhetoric | COMM 231 Conflict Mgmt & Mediation OR |
| COMM 227 Social Justice and Communication | COMM 237 Small Group Communication |
| COMM 268 Persuasion | |
| COMM 272 Intercultural Communication | |
| COMM 277 Organizational Communication |
| Research Methods (3hrs) |
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| COMM 367 Rhetorical Criticism |
| COMM 368 Critical Ethnography |
| Electives (12hrs) includes courses above not taken to meet other requirements | |
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| COMM 281 Communication, Language and Gender | COMM 307 The Rhetoric of Social Change (Topics) |
| COMM 297 Themes in Communication (approved) | COMM 371 Special Topics: Communication (approved) |
| COMM 300 Persuasive Campaigns (Topics) | COMM 381 Communication Practicum |
| COMM 303 Media, Politics and Propaganda | COMM 393 Communication Internship |
| COMM 304 Rhetoric of Cold War 9/11 | COMM 398 Directed Study |
| COMM 306 Environmental Advocacy |
