Degree requirements - Research track

For Communications - Research Track, you need to complete 55 credits, which must include a minimum of 20 credits of upper-division courses. You must earn a total of 180 quarter credits, or 225 quarter credits for a double degree, to earn a bachelor of arts degree in your chosen major.

Track your progress

COMMUNICATION - RESEARCH TRACK CHECKLIST

COM course lists: List A - Core | List B - Research

 

Communication Foundation: 10 credits
One of the following writing courses: TWRT 211 Writing Effectively TWRT 331 Advanced Disciplinary Writing: Humanities, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences One of the following theory and methods courses: TCOM 353 Critical Approaches to Mass Communication TCOM 444 Gender, Ethnicity, Class and the Media

Communication Core - List A: 30 credits, including minimum of 20 credits of upper division credits (300-400 level) required (* denotes courses restricted to Global Honors students)

TCOM 201 Media and Society TCOM 230 Media Globalization and Citizenship TCOM 247 Television Studies TCOM 257 Ethical Issues in Mass Communication TCOM 258 Children and Television TCOM 310 Contemporary Environmental Issues and the Media TCOM 353 Critical Approaches to Mass Communication TCOM 354 Communication History TCOM 388 Russian Media Studies TCOM 430 Global Networks, Local Identities TCOM 440 Advertising and Consumer Culture TCOM 444 Gender, Ethnicity, Class, and the Media TCOM 454 Communications Law TCOM 460 Communication and National Development TCOM 461 Media and Identity in Asia TCOM 470 Documentary Production and Critique TCOM 480 Political Economy of the Media TCOM 481 Communication Regulations & Policy TCOM 495 Communication Capstone Thesis TFILM 272 Film Studies TFILM 348 Film and Human Values TFILM 386 Silent Cinema TFILM 420 Contemporary World Cinema TFILM 474 Russian History and Film TFILM 481 Film Theory and Aesthetics TFILM 483 Film Directors TFILM 484 French Cinema TFILM 485 Media Genres TFILM 486 Feminist Perspectives in Film and Literature TFILM 488 Gender and Sexuality in Film T GH 302 Global Imaginations* THISP 376 Latin American Film THISP 377 Spanish Film THISP 441 Mexican Cinema and Society

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Research Track - List B: 10 credits (* denotes courses restricted to Global Honors students)

TANTH 354 History of the Concept of Culture TANTH 365 North American Indian Traditions TANTH 453 Health, Illness and Culture TANTH 454 Seminar on Health and Culture TANTH 464 Native American Cultural Areas TARTS 311 History of Rock & Roll TARTS 315 Music and Crisis TARTS 411 History of Jazz TARTS 480 Contemporary Art and Society- 1945 to Present TECON 328 Third World Problems and Prospects TECON 425 Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy TFILM 348 Film and Human Values TGH 301 Global Interactions* THISP 323 The Making of Mexico THISP 461 Contemporary Mexican Culture THISP 462 Women in Latin America THISP 464 Arts, Cultures and History of Mexico THISP 476 Latin American Women Writers THISP 491 Society and Culture in Cuba THIST 365 Europe in the Twentieth Century THIST 410 Early American Politics, Constitution and Law THIST 413 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties THIST 416 Life and Thought: Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis THIST 419 African American Culture and Consciousness THIST 440 Black Labor in America THIST 441 Black Freedom Movement in Perspective THIST 451 Renaissance Europe THSIP463 Contemporary Cuban Culture THIST 487 Technology and the Modern World TLIT 306 Studies in Selected American Writers TLIT 311 Themes in American Literature TLIT 320 African American Literature from Slavery to the Present TLIT 331 Immigrant and Ethnic Literature TLIT 370 American Poetry TLIT 388 Cross Cultural Studies in Contemporary Women's Literature TLIT 425 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance TLIT 431 Contemporary Native American Women’s Literature TLIT 432 American Indian Literature TLIT 437 Nature and Environment in American Literature TLIT 439 Western American Literature TLIT 487 African Folklore and Literature TPHIL 354 American Modes of Thought and Experience TPHIL 355 The Mind of Modernity TPHIL 360 History of Philosophy: Modern and Contemporary TPHIL 361 Ethics in Society TPHIL 451 The Enlightenment TPHIL 456 Environmental Ethics TPHIL 466 Modernity and Its Critics TPOLS 311 International Human Rights TPOLS 340 War and Empire in the Middle East TPOLS 342 Third World Cities TPOLS 420 Theories of Political Violence TPOLS 452 Minorities and the Law TPOLS 453 Political Theory of Human Rights TPSYCH 320 Race, Class and Gender Contexts of Child Development TPSYCH 321 Adolescent Psychology TPSYCH 401 Family Violence TPSYCH 403 Psychology of Black Women TPSYCH 404 The Psychology of Food and Culture TPSYCH 405 Body Image and the Psychology of Appearance TPSYCH 410 Existential Psychology TPSYCH 411 Psychology & the Arts TPSYCH 415 Issues in Social Psychology: Hip Hop Culture TRELIG 463 God: East and West TSOC 335 Social Class and Inequality TSOC 435 Migrants in the Modern World: Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees TSOC 455 The Sociology of Gender TWOMN 345 Women and Work in the U.S. TWOMN 347 History of Women in the United States TWOMN 420 Women in the Global Economy

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Natural World (Environmental Science): 5 credits

One TESC course or an Environmental Science transfer course. Please see an adviser for applicable courses.

Optional Communication Capstone: 5 credits

Communication - Research Track students may choose to complete a 5-credit, 25-35 page senior thesis (as part of the List A credits). Ideally, you would have completed all core and foundation courses before undertaking the thesis. The thesis may be supervised only by core Communication faculty. This means early planning is crucial, and you should develop a rapport with your supervisor by the time you reach the thesis stage.
Communication Capstone Thesis Form