Generalist Focus

To complete a generalist focus area, you will take 18 semester units (or 24 quarter units) chosen from any of the approved courses from the five focus areas.

  • COMS 2226, Applied Argumentation
  • COMS 3301, Business and Professional Communication
  • COMS 3302, Advanced Public Speaking 
  • ISLA 3303, Values and Technology
  • COMS 3305, Persuasion 
  • COMS 3308, Group Performance of Literature 
  • COMS 3317, Technology and Human Communication
  • COMS 3319, Critical Cultural Studies and Communication
  • COMS 3320, Intergroup Communication
  • COMS 3330, Classical Rhetoric 
  • COMS 3331, Contemporary Rhetorical Approaches
  • COMS 3333, Race and Rhetoric
  • COMS 3350, Advocacy Coaching and Consulting
  • COMS 3351, Speech and Debate Team 
  • COMS 3352, Spanish-language Speech and Debate Team 
  • COMS 3384, Media Effects 
  • COMS 3386, Communication, Media, and Politics 
  • COMS/JOUR 3387, Sports Communication
  • COMS 3390, Environmental Communication 
  • COMS/ISLA 3395, Science Communication
  • COMS 4402, Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine 
  • COMS 4404, Video Games and Society
  • COMS 4413, Training and Development
  • COMS 4418, Health Communication
  • COMS 4420, Nonverbal Communication
  • COMS 4421, Gender and Communication
  • COMS 4428, Family Communication
  • COMS 4430, Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication
  • COMS 4435, Rhetoric and Social Change 
  • COMS/BUS 4458, Solving Big World Challenges

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