Nov 23, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Communication, B.A.

Location(s): West Palm Beach Campus (Day), PBA Online


120 Credit Hours

Program Learning Outcomes


“Expected student learning outcomes specify the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes students are expected to attain in courses or in a program.” Page 69. Resource Manual for the Principles of Accreditation: Foundations for Quality Enhancement, Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC), 2018.

1.   Actively engage in civil society in both face-to-face and digital settings.

2.   Participate meaningfully in civil discourse through the development of skills in statistical, rhetorical, and organizational analysis.

3.   Make ethical judgments about their own and others’ contributions to civil discourse in face-to-face interactions, and social, digital, and public media.

4.   Apply their faith to communication interactions with others.

5.   Exercise skills in negotiation and mediation of conflict.

6.   Practice appropriate skills for speech and dialogue in a variety of situational and cultural contexts, including public address, the social landscape and the natural environment.

7.   Promote the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional growth of others from differing cultural and social contexts.

Graduation Requirements


Conferral of a Baccalaureate degree in this program of study is determined by successful completion of the Baccalaureate Graduation Requirements outlined here .

NOTE: Students must earn 42 upper level (3000-4000) credit hours in order to graduate. A total of at least 21 of these upper level credit hours must be completed in the selected major.

Visit this program’s information page  for additional program-specific requirements.

Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) - 43 Credit Hours


Communication majors must meet the Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Requirements as set out in Faith, Roots, and Reason (General Education) Program .

Communication Major - 36 Credit Hours


Concentrations in Communication - 12 Credit Hours


Students must fulfill the degree requirements of one of the following concentrations:

Additional Required Credit Hours - 41 Credit Hours


This program must include a minor from outside the program or an additional major.

Sample Degree Plan


Communication Degree Plan