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Requirements

Requirements for the Civic Communication and Media Major (36 semester hours)

Core (8 semester hours)

  • CCM110 Introduction to Communication Studies (4)

  • CCM496W Research Communities Capstone (4)

Application and Design (8 semester hours)

  • CCM201 Arguing About the Right Thing to Do (4)

  • CCM202 Designing Persuasive Campaigns (4)

  • CCM203 Designing Media (4)

  • CCM 204 Communicating Race (4)

  • CCM245 Civic Media (4)

  • CCM255 Grief Communication: Listening, Storytelling, and Dialogue (4)

  • CCM258 Gender and Mass Communication in Asia (4)

  • CCM261 Media, Technology, and Society (4)

  • CCM288 Introducing Asia to the World (4)

Methods and Topics (12 semester hours)

  • CCM220W Analyzing Public Discourse (4)

  • CCM301 Asian Visual, Creative Culture (4)

  • CCM310 Asian Social Media (4)

  • CCM318 Intergenerational Communication (4)

  • CCM321 Rhetorical Theory (4)

  • CCM330 Communicating Peace (4)

  • CCM335W Communicating Self and Society (4)

  • CCM341 US Women’s Rights Activism Before 1920 (4)

  • CCM342 US Women’s Rights Activism Since 1920 (4)

  • CCM344 Asian Americans and the Media (4)

  • CCM361 Artificial Intelligence and Society (4)

  • CCM363 Persuasive Technology (4)

  • CCM367 Networked Social Movements (4)

  • CCM394 / CCM395 Internship (2-4)

Electives (8 semester hours)

Eight additional hours in CCM. All electives must be at the 200 level or above; at least 4 semester hours must be at the 300 level or above

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