Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2023-2024 
    
    Apr 23, 2025  
Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Communication - Media and Film Studies Emphasis, B.A.


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Overview

The communication major provides courses that explore models of communication theory and application of theory in specific communication contexts. The major approaches the study of communication from a broad, liberal arts perspective that includes the historical, philosophical and theoretical roots of communication. Courses provide necessary background for successful work and service in the public, private and religious sectors, as well as future graduate studies.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

  1. Students will demonstrate their ability to communicate through the production of multimodal messages.
  2. Students will demonstrate comprehension of historic and current communication theory and its application in context.
  3. Students will critically interpret language, images, and other signs.
  4. Students will articulate the ways in which messages are mediated and shaped by media.
  5. Students will critically interpret voice, power, and discourse in personal, local, and global contexts.

Locations Offered

Main Campus Fresno

Degree Pathways

Communication - Media and Film Studies, B.A. Four Year Pathway  

Communication - Media and Film Studies, B.A. ADT Pathway  

Note:


Students are encouraged to attend the Semester in Los Angeles program offered by Columbia College. The courses taken in that program will replace major requirements as determined by your advisor.

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