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COMMUNICATIONPrograms Offered• Bachelor of Arts in CommunicationEmphasis in Environmental CommunicationEmphasis in Health CommunicationEmphasis in Business and Nonprofit Communication• Minor in CommunicationThe BA in Communication is based on a thorough examinationof how we use language in a variety of specific social contexts.By critically considering how meaning is negotiated in health,environmental and business/nonprofit settings, students willappreciate the complexity of coordinating our actions.By working in diverse small and large groups, makingpresentations, and using a variety of channels – from face-tofaceto telephone, email to internet, students who completethe program will be prepared to take responsibility for theirinteractions within their communities and the workplace of theirchoosing.CareersMajor career opportunities include environmental advocacy,nonprofit and business management, and health services.Additional employment avenues include: mediation, counseling,public affairs, government, entrepreneurship, sales, communityrelations, employee relations, teaching, consulting, eventplanning, media entertainment, law, international relations,social and human services, advertising, journalism, marketing,public relations. Students may also pursue graduate studies.Program Learning OutcomesAfter having completed the requirements for the degree,students will be able to:• Demonstrate effective collaboration skills with others in oneon-oneand small/large group settings, and with audiencesof diverse memberships;• Identify an optimal means to communicate depending uponthe audience, situation and by understanding the relevance,limitations and effectiveness of different communicationtechnologies and medium;• Analyze messages critically for content, purpose,organization, argument, style and meaning;• Demonstrate the ability to analyze and create solutions tointerpersonal, organizational, and community conflict;• Demonstrate proficiency in written and oral communication;• Differentiate ethical dimensions of health, environmental ororganizational messages and estimate their impact upon agiven community;• Engage in various analytical methodologies to thinkcritically, evaluate and explain human communicationprocesses; and• Apply communication competencies in a communityengagement/service learning environment.FacultyTracylee Clarke, Ph.D.Assistant Professor of CommunicationBell Tower East, Room 2834(805) 437-3305tracylee.clarke@csuci.eduBachelor of Arts Degree inCommunication - (120 units)Lower Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Upper Division . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33General Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45According to the GE requirements, students must take 9units from those interdisciplinary courses numbered 330-349 and 430-449. Six of the 9 units can be doublecounted and three of the 9 units must be outside themajor and not cross listed with the COMM prefix.Title V: American Institutions Requirement . . . . . . . . .6Electives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24TOTAL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 unitsLower Division Requirements - 12 unitsCOMM 101 Public Speaking . . . . . . . . . . . .3COMM 200 Introduction to CommunicationStudies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Choose any two of the following:COMM 210 Interpersonal Communication . . . . . .3COMM 211 Discerning Information in anInterconnected World (LIB) . . . . . . . 3COMM 220 Group Communication . . . . . . . . .3Upper Division Requirements - 33 unitsRequired Courses 15 unitsCOMM 310 Communication Research Methods . . . 3COMM 320 Persuasion and Argumentation . . . . . .3COMM 321 Cultural Conversations. . . . . . . . . 3COMM 340 Conflict Management and Mediation. . 3COMM 499 Capstone Project . . . . . . . . . . . .3Major Electives - 6 unitsYou may choose any two upper division COMM courses:COMM 301 Advanced Public Speaking . . . . . . .3COMM 322 Sociology of Popular Culture(SOC/ENGL) . . . . . . . . . . . . .3COMM 331 Art, Society and Mass Media (ART) . . .3COMM 335 Politics and Film (POLS) . . . . . . . . .3COMM 336 Multicultural Literature andCOMM 345Communication (ENGL). . . . . . . . .3Media Literacy andYouth Culture (EDUC) . . . . . . . . . .3COMM 346 School Communication (EDUC) . . . . .3COMM 430 Political Communication (POLS) . . . . .3COMM 490 Special Topics . . . . . . . . . . . . .3COMM 492 Internship/Service Learning . . . . . .1-3(Repeatable up to 3 units)COMM 494 Independent Study . . . . . . . . . .1-32011 – 2012PROGRAMS AND DEGREESwww.csuci.edu • California State University Channel Islands • 2011 - 2012 Catalog153