Curriculum requirements for the minor

Total Credit hours: 21 Credits

Required Courses (18 credit hours)

• COMM 175: Introduction to Communication
• COMM 220: Introduction to Rhetoric
• COMM 227: Social Justice and Communication
• COMM 230: Argumentation and Advocacy
• COMM 236: Persuasive Presentations
• COMM 268: Persuasion

Elective Courses (3 credit hours)

• COMM 215: Ethics and Communication
• COMM 231: Conflict Management and Mediation
• COMM 281: Communication, Language and Gender
• COMM 300: Persuasive Campaigns
• COMM 304: Rhetoric of the Cold War and 9/11
• COMM 306: Environmental Advocacy
• COMM 307: Communication and Social Change

Learning Outcomes

• Understand the role that communication plays in upholding, changing or transforming social hierarchies, institutions, and identities.
• Select and use various communication strategies (including persuasion, argumentation, conflict management, negotiation, and mediation) leading to ethical social change.
• Use communication skills and knowledge to create, define, analyze, interpret, and critique messages, texts, campaigns, and projects.
• Demonstrate effectiveness as rhetors, critics and decision makers.
• Serve the needs of diverse groups, communities and organizations which strive for equity, diversity, inclusion, and social justice.