Communication Minor
HFA PEAK--
Upon successful completion of any HFA program, students will:
- Demonstrate engagement with humanistic inquiry through the application of theory and methodology (appropriate to discipline) to cultures, texts, or artifacts.
- Provide evidence of their own artistic work and active engagement with the creative process.
- Demonstrate engagement with non-dominant cultures and cultural products
Upon successful completion of a Communication Minor, students will be able to:
- Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
- Explain the origins of the Communication discipline.
- Examine contemporary debates within the field.
- Engage in Communication inquiry.
- Interpret Communication scholarship.
- Evaluate Communication scholarship.
- Apply Communication scholarship.
- Formulate questions appropriate for Communication scholarship.
- Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context
- Locate and use information relevant to the goals, audiences, purposes, and contexts.
- Select creative and appropriate modalities and technologies to accomplish communicative goals.
- Adapt messages to the diverse needs of individuals, groups, and contexts.
- Critically reflect on one's own messages after the communication event.
- Critically analyze messages.
- Identify meanings embedded in messages.
- Recognize the influence of messages.
- Engage in active listening.
- Apply ethical communication principles and practices.
- Identify ethical perspectives.
- Articulate ethical dimensions of communicative situations.
- Choose to communicate with ethical intention.
- Evaluate the ethical elements of communicative situations.
- Utilize communication to embrace difference.
- Articulate the connection between communication and culture.
- Recognize individual and cultural similarities and differences.
- Appreciate individual and cultural similarities and differences.
- Respect diverse perspectives and the ways they influence communication.
- Influence public discourse.
- Explain the importance of communication in civic life.
- Identify challenges facing communities and the role of communication in resolving those challenges.
- Utilize communication to respond to issues at the local, national, and/or global level.
15 credits
Minor Requirements
Rhetorical Core
| SPE-101 | Basic Public Speaking | 3 credits |
| SPE-201 | Foundations of Oral Communication | 3 credits |
Methods
Complete one course from the following:
| SPE-240 | Rhetorical Criticism | 3 credits |
| SPE-245 | Critical Cultural Methodology | 3 credits |
Course not taken to satisfy Methods requirement (SPE-240 or SPE-245) may count toward the minor's Topics requirement.
Topics
Complete 6 credits from the following. At least 3 credits must be outside the SPE designation.
| ART-111 | Ways of Seeing | 3 credits |
| JOURN-200 | Principles and Practices of Journalism:
Print | 3 credits |
| JOURN-201 | Principles & Practices of Journalism:
Visual | 3 credits |
| PHI-150 | Critical Reasoning | 3 credits |
| PHI-214 | Introduction to Logic | 3 credits |
| PHI-309 | Feminist Philosophy | 3 credits |
| SPE-199 | Debate I | 1 credit |
| SPE-240 | Rhetorical Criticism | 3 credits |
| SPE-245 | Critical Cultural Methodology | 3 credits |
| SPE-305 | Paradigms in Intercultural Communication | 3 credits |
| SPE-306 | Communicating Gender and Sexuality | 3 credits |
| SPE-310 | Topics in the Philosophy of
Communication | 3 credits |
| SPE-399 | Debate II | 1 credit |
| THE-200 | Introduction to Film Studies | 3 credits |
| THE-215 | Acting Fundamentals | 3 credits |
| THE-216 | Voice and Diction | 3 credits |
| THE-300 | Gender and Sexuality in Film | 3 credits |
If not taken to satisfy the Methods requirement SPE-240 or SPE-245 may be count toward the Topics requirement.
SPE-199: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.
SPE-399: Up to 3 credits may count toward this requirement.