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To be awarded the degree of Bachelor of Science in Communication and Leadership, the candidate must complete 120 semester hours of coursework and must fulfill the University's General Requirements for graduation, the Core Curriculum requirements, the college graduation requirements, the requirements and policies listed in Academic Policies and Procedures, and the requirements given in Prescribed Work, Major Requirements, and Special Requirements of the Major, below.

Prescribed Work

Three semester hours in English or rhetoric and writing in addition to the courses required by the core curriculum.

Three courses with a writing flag; one course with a quantitative reasoning flag; one course with a global cultures flag; one course with a cultural diversity in the United States flag; one course with an ethics flag; and one course with an independent inquiry flag. The same course cannot be used to satisfy the global cultures and cultural diversity flags even if the course carries both flags. Courses that fulfill flag requirements are identified in the Course Schedule. They may also be used to fulfill other degree requirements.

Three semester hours of coursework in the Moody College of Communication dealing with the study of communication issues concerning at least one minority or non-dominant group within the United States. Courses that fulfill this requirement may also be used to fulfill other degree requirements. A complete list is available on the college’s Student Advising website before registration for each semester and summer session.

Major Requirements

The major requires 36 hours of coursework across three designated areas, of which at least 15 hours must be upper-division:

Communication Leadership: Communication and Leadership 301, 321, 351, 371

Communication Foundations: Twelve semester hours chosen from the following courses in the Moody College of Communication: Advertising 320, 332; Communication Studies 306M, 310K, 313M, 315M, 316L, 320, 321D, 322E, 332, 332K. 333, 335, 337, 338, 341, 353S, 372K; Journalism 331M, 358C

Social Issues: Twelve semester hours chosen from the following: Advertising 334, 378 (Topic 26); Communication Studies 332D, 340K, 342K, 344K, 347K, 354, 372T; Communication Sciences and Disorders 378D; Journalism 336F, 313P, 338J, 341F, 341J, 346G, 348D, 351F, 355F; Radio-Television-Film 323C, 342 (Topic 8), 365 (Topic 13); Public Health 317; Social Work 310, 325; Public Affairs 325 (Topic 1); Applied Learning and Development 327; Women's and Gender Studies 340 (Topic 53); Government 351L or Core Texts and Ideas 325, Government 337M (Topic 7), 357M (Topic 8); Sociology 308K, 321G, 336D, 352, 369K.