As the Department Examined the Successful Major As It Is Now Constituted, We Discovered

Rationale

As the department examined the successful major as it is now constituted, we discovered it is desirable to improve the major both in terms of requirements and sequencing.

As to sequencing: We believe it will greatly benefit our students to experience first a broad based approach to the different types of writing needed for the different areas of Communication; here we proposed the Comm 115 Writing for Communication. The entire explanation of the course as contained in its own proposal. We have dropped Comm 110 and Comm 120 as requirements for all students, as the Interpersonal more properly fits into a track for Comm Studies and the Mass Comm is for those tracks so designated. This leaves us an extra major elective slot available so that we clan get our majors headed to the desired area of concentration.

For the sophomore year we are keeping Comm 210, Logic and Rhetorical Analysis for one semester and adding Comm 215 as Communication Theory. The latter is part of the old Comm 410, Comm Theory and Research, but without the major research and augmented by more of the theory approach as it applies to the different tracks.

These two courses in the same year will also serve as a filter for the serious comm students to get to the more intense work in a specific track.

Junior year will require only 1 required course which will be Comm 316, Communication Ethics which is closely associated to the Comm 220 courses, Responsibility. We feel it is better situated in the Junior year as the students are well into their area of concentration and it will be more relevant to them.

Our Senior requirement major course will be Senior Seminar, Comm 415.

This is our capstone course which brings together all previous years works both in required and track courses. The content of the course is a series of readings in the field of concentration which will help find solution to them in their chosen field. The content will vary as the student will be grouped according to their tracks. We can discuss at this time - methods but not context, as that will depend on the time, the concentration and the problems that are present in four years from now.

As you can see we have reduced the required major courses from six to five, by remaining as required for courses - Comm 110, 120 and 310 and making 410 to sophomore year. We added Comm 115 and 415 to get to the required five.

We are also going to require students to select tracks or areas of study. They are: Communication Studiesr Broadcasting, Film Studies, Journalism, Public Relations and Advertising.

In each track there will be two or three required courses. The other courses can be in the track or from another track: the required courses for each track are as follows:

Communication Studies

1. Interpersonal 4. Persuasion, Propaganda 7. Non Verbal Comm

2. Small groups 5. Debate

3. Intercultural 6. Gender and Comm

Broadcasting

1. Intro to Prod. T.V. 5. Radio Production 9. Digital Audio & Video

2. Advanced T.V. Prod. 6. Radio Practicum Production

3. Educational T.V. 7. Mass Comm Law

4. T.V. Practicum 8. Mass Comm

Film Studies

1. Narrative Film 3. International Film 5. Film Criticism

2. Documentary Film 4. Mass Comm 6. Film History

7. Elective

Journalism

1. News Writing 4. Radio Journalism 7. Elective

2. Editing 5. T.V. Journalism

3. Graphics 6. Mass Communications

Public Relations

1. Writing for PR 3. PR Production 5. Mass Comm 7. Elective

2. Intro to PR 4. PR Cases 6. Organizational Comm

Advertising

1. Intro to Advertising 3. Graphics 5. Portfolio 7. Political Advertising

2. Advertising Copywriting 4. Design 6. Mass Communication

We will be redesigning our CAPP sheet to show the track within the major itself.

As to the staffing; although we will continue offering Mass Comm and

Interpersonal, the demand will drop due to the non-requiring of these courses. The faculty assigned to these areas can barely take up the requirement of for Comm 115. We will have an overlap of Comm 215 and 410 (Theory) for one year but dropping Ethics from sophomore to junior year will allow us to cover dropping Mass Comm Law as a requirement opens up faculty to do more electives which is the biggest complaint of our majors - not enough.

Lastly with new hires, especially in advertising, it allows us to use adjunct for specialty rather than required courses.

We are extremely proud of our student expansion from its small beginning to the largest major. We feel that now is the time to intensify the quality to surpass the quantity of the major.

COMMUNICATION

Dept. and No.Descriptive Course TitleCredits

FIRST YEARFALLSPRING

MAJORCOMM 115/ELECTWriting for Communication/33

Communication Elective

COGNATECOGNATE ELECTCognate Elective 3

GE SPCH-WRTGCOMM 100-WRTG 107Public Speaking-Composition33

GE C/ILC/IL 102Computing and Information Literacy 3

GE HUMNHUMN ELECTHumanities Electives33

GE PHIL-T/RSPHIL 120-T/RS 121Introduction to Philosophy/Theology I33

GE FSEMINTD 100Freshman Seminar1

GE PHEDPHED ELECTPhysical Education1

1616

SECOND YEAR

MAJORCOMM 210Logical and Rhetorical Analysis3

MAJORCOMM 215Theory3

MAJORCOMM ELECTCommunication Electives33

COGNATECOGNATE ELECTCognate Electives33

GE PHIL-T/RSPHIL 210-T/RS 122Ethics/Theology II33

GE QUAN-S/BHQUANT-S/BH ELECTQuantitative-S/BH Science33

GE PHEDPHED ELECT Physical Education11

1616

THIRD YEAR

MAJORCOMM 316/ELECTComm Ethics/Comm Elective33

MAJORCOMM ELECTCommunication Electives33

COGNATECOGNATE ELECTCognate Electives33

GE PHILELECTPhil-T/RS/Humanities Electives33

or T/RS-HUMN

GE NSCINSCI ELECTNatural Science Electives33

GE ELECTELECTElectives33

1818

FOURTH YEAR

MAJORCOMM 415Seminar3

MAJORMAJOR ELECTCommunication Elective3

COGNATECOGNATE ELECTCognate Electives36

GE HUMN-S/BHHUMN-S/BH ELECTHumanities-S/BH Electives33

GE ELECTELECTElectives63

1515

Total: 130 CREDITS