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