Loyola University Chicago

School of Communication

Communication Studies

Curriculum requirements for the minor

Total Credit Hours: 18 Credits

General Communications Courses (3 credit hours—Required)

  • COMM 175: Introduction to Communication

Electives (15 credit hours)

Select five from the following menus—two of these courses must be selected from at least two different menus.
Menu 1: Theory/Critical Analysis
  • COMM 215: Ethics and Communication
  • COMM 220: Introduction to Rhetoric
  • COMM 227: Social Justice and Communication
  • COMM 268: Persuasion
  • COMM 271: Media Culture and Communication
  • COMM 272: Intercultural Communication
  • COMM 273: Interpersonal Communication
  • COMM 274: Introduction to Cinema
  • COMM 276: Media and Society
  • COMM 277: Organizational Communication
Menu 2: Applied
  • COMM 130: Introduction to Audio Production
  • COMM 135: Introduction to Video Production
  • COMM 204: Community as Story
  • COMM 230: Argumentation and Advocacy
  • COMM 231: Conflict Management and Communication
  • COMM 232: Film Production
  • COMM 234: Interviewing for Communication
  • COMM 236: Persuasive Presentations
  • COMM 237: Small Group Communication
  • COMM 275: Web Design and Usability
  • COMM 306: Environmental Advocacy
  • COMM 361: New Media Criticism
Menu 3: Research Methods
  • COMM 364: Communication Research Methods Topics
  • COMM 365: Naturalistic Methods of Communication Research
  • COMM 366: Observing and Measuring Communication Behavior
  • COMM 367: Rhetorical Criticism
  • COMM 368: Critical Ethnography in Communication
Menu 4: General Electives
  • COMM course not previously taken counts for a general elective

Learning Outcomes:

  • Learn how the communication field interprets and approaches fundamental communication social issues faced by our globalized world.
  • Understand the situated, contextual, and historical nature of communication processes and practices.
  • Identify the relationship between communication processes and practices and the construction and transformation of human identities, communities, and cultures.
  • Use communication skills and knowledge to produce messages, texts, campaigns, and projects.
  • Formulate creative, culturally literate, and convincing oral, written, and multimodal arguments which are responsive to context and situation.