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Dec 08, 2024
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USC Catalogue 2024-2025
Communication (BA)*
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The major in communication gives students theoretical perspectives and applied approaches focused on how people create and use communication to build and sustain systems, persuade others, resist compliance, critically examine challenging real-world problems, and be skilled practitioners in a variety of fields. Students complete foundational courses in social science, rhetoric, and cultural studies before pursuing a wide array of electives that include media, economics, sports, health, and technology. Graduates are prepared for careers ranging from entertainment, marketing, and advertising to sustainability, nonprofit consultancy, and government service in addition to advancing to further study in law school or masters and doctoral programs.
Course Requirements
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Theoretical and Foundational Classes (12 units total)
These courses introduce students to theories and subject matter that provide foundational understanding for the Communication major. Each area below broadly explores the way messages and meanings are socially and culturally produced, received by individuals and society, and transformed through technological and industrial shifts.
Communication Interaction, Influence and Impact (4 units)
Communication, Civic Life and Culture (4 units)
Economics and Technologies of Communication (4 units)
Methods of Communication Practice (8 units total)
The courses in this area help to provide students with the critical thinking, tools, and methods of inquiry necessary for the interpretation, development, and expression of messages, systematic arguments, and empirical evidence.
Four units that center on the design and execution of arguments
Four units that center on the design, execution and interpretation of empirical evidence
Annenberg Experience (4 units)
Students are required to take one 4-unit course that prepares Annenberg students to enhance their digital literacy and contextualize modern communication controversies, contemplating changes in the way we process and produce information. Electives (24 units total)
- Upper-division COMM courses: 16 units
- Lower- or upper-division COMM or ASCJ courses: 4 units
- One 400-level non-cross-listed COMM course (excluding COMM 490 , COMM 494 and COMM 499 ): 4 units
Sample electives in the major may include
Additional Requirements
Students must maintain a minimum 2.0 overall GPA in upper-division coursework applied toward the major. No more than 4 units of COMM 380 may be counted toward the department major. The School of Communication is committed to ensuring that all declared communication majors follow the necessary requirements.
Mandatory advisement is required of all communication majors each semester prior to registration. All students taking communication classes are held to the highest academic integrity standards and may be denied admission or have admission revoked as a result of conduct violations.
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