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Requirements

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

Core (8 semester hours)

  • CCM 110 Introduction to Communication Studies (4)
  • CCM 496W Research Communities Capstone (4)

Application and Design (8 semester hours)

  • CCM 201 Arguing About the Right Thing to Do (4)
  • CCM 202 Creating Persuasive Campaigns (4)
  • CCM 203 Designing Media (4)
  • CCM 204 Communicating Race (4)
  • CCM 245 Civic Media (4)
  • CCM 255 Grief Communication: Listening, Storytelling, and Dialogue (4)
  • CCM 258 Gender and Mass Communication in Asia (4)
  • CCM 261 Media, Technology, and Society (4)
  • CCM 288 Introducing Asia to the World (4)

Methods and Topics (12 semester hours)

  • CCM 220W Analyzing Public Discourse (4)
  • CCM 301 Asian Visual, Creative Culture (4)
  • CCM 310 Asian Social Media (4)
  • CCM 318 Intergenerational Communication (4)
  • CCM 321 Rhetorical Theory (4)
  • CCM 330 Communicating Peace (4)
  • CCM 335W Communicating Self and Society (4)
  • CCM 341 US Women’s Rights Activism Before 1920 (4)
  • CCM 342 US Women’s Rights Activism Since 1920 (4)
  • CCM 344 Asian Americans and the Media (4)
  • CCM 361 Artificial Intelligence and Society (4)
  • CCM 363 Persuasive Technology (4)
  • CCM 367 Networked Social Movements (4)
  • CCM 394/395 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

Requirements for the Civic Communication and Media Minor (24 semester hours)

  • CCM 110 Introduction to Communication Studies (4)
  • Application and Design (8 semester hours chosen from the list above) 
  • Methods and Topics (8 semester hours chosen from the list above)
  • Elective (4 semester hours in CCM at the 200 level or higher)

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Civic Communication and Media