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College
College of Communication and Information
Department
School of Communication Studies

135 Taylor Hall
Tel: 330-672-2659 | Fax: 330-672-3510
E-mail: comm@kent.edu
Web: http://www.kent.edu/comm
 

The Public Communication minor allows students pursuing, for example, journalism and mass communication, advertising or political science major degrees a more specific minor in Public Communication to add and demonstrate they have more communication training facilitating public communication processes because of required specialized curriculum guiding the minor degree selections. This adaptation and exploration is likely to be more appealing to both students when constructing their resumes and to employers when making hiring decisions and considering the necessary types of communication skill competencies required for the profession.

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

PUBLIC COMMUNICATION MINOR REQUIREMENTS (18 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
KAD COMM 15000 Introduction to Human Communication 3
    25902 Communication Theory 3
    26001 Public Communication 3
  Choose from the following: 9
  COMM 41000 Sport Communication (3)  
    42000 Media, War and Propaganda (3)  
    43000 Communication Technologies and Human Interaction (3)  
    45006 Media Uses and Effects (3)  
    45007 Freedom of Speech (3)  
WIC   45902 Communication and Influence (3)  
  MINIMUM TOTAL 18

Requirement to declare minor: Minimum 2.000 cumulative Kent State University GPA; or, if a first semester freshman or transfer student admitted in good standing, no established Kent State University GPA is needed.

Minimum 2.250 GPA in the minor required for graduation.