Undergraduate Communication Minor
Proficiency in communication is fundamental to personal and professional interactions in all career endeavors. The communication minor encompasses 24 units of concentrated study.
Lower-division courses
(Choose ONE course below — 4 units)
CMN 1: Introduction to Public Speaking
CMN 3: Interpersonal Communication Competence
Upper-division courses
(Choose FIVE from below — 20 units)
Communication Theory and Methods
- CMN 101: Communication Theories
- CMN 102: Empirical Methods in Communication
Basic Communication Processes
- CMN 110: Communication Networks
- CMN 111: Gender Differences in Communication
- CMN 112: Theories of Persuasion
- CMN 114: Communication and Cognition
Interpersonal Communication
- CMN 120: Interpersonal Communication
- CMN 121: Language Use in Conversation
- CMN 122: Nonverbal Communication
- CMN 123: Intercultural Communication
- CMN 124: Family Communication
Group and Organizational Communication
- CMN 130: Group Communication
- CMN 131: Strategic Communication in Public Relations
- CMN 132: Social Media for Public Relations
- CMN 136: Organizational Communication
- CMN 139: Advanced Organizational Communication
Mass Communication
- CMN 140: Introduction to Mass Communication
- CMN 141: Media Effects: Theory and Research
- CMN 142: News Policies, Practices and Effects
- CMN 143: Analysis of Media Messages
- CMN 144: Media Entertainment
- CMN 145: Political Communication
- CMN 146: Communication Campaigns
- CMN 147: Children, Adolescents, and the Media
- CMN 148: Contemporary Trends in Media
Health Communication
- CMN 161: Health Communication
- CMN 165: Media and Health
Information and Communication Technology
- CMN 150V: Computational Social Science
- CMN 151: Simulating Communication Processes
- CMN 170: Digital Technology and Social Change
- CMN 172: Computer-Mediated Communication
- CMN 174: Social Media
- CMN 176: Video Games Theory and Research
- CMN 178: Persuasive Technologies
Special Topics Classes
- CMN 180: Current Topics in Communication
- CMN 189: Proseminar A (Social Interaction), B (Mass Communication), C (Health Communication) or D (Organizational Communication)
Alternate Electives
- ANT 117: Language and Society
- ANT 120: Language and Culture
- ECN 122: Theory of Games and Strategic Behavior
- LIN 171: Introduction to Psycholinguistics
- LIN 177: Computational Linguistics
- LIN 182: Multilingualism
- POL 165: Mass Media and Politics
- PSC 100: Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
- PSC 107: Questionnaire and Research Methods
- PSC 152: Social Cognition
- PSC 154: Psychology of Emotion
- SOC 126: Social Interaction
- SOC 175: Mass Communication
- STA 102: Introduction to Probability Modeling and Statistical Inference
- STA 106: Applied Statistical Methods: Analysis of Variance
- STA 108: Applied Statistical Methods: Regression Analysis