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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

Communication Studies, Health Communication Track (BA) Sample Plan


Year One

Fall Spring
EN - 103 Composition and Rhetoric I   3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II    3
PL - 109 Philosophical Thinking  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)  3 EN - 104 Composition and Rhetoric II  or Expanded Literacies (1/6)  3
UNIV - 101 First-Year Experience        3 Expanded Literacies: Mathematical Reasoning (2/6)
(MA 111  recommended)
3
CM - 130 Introduction to Mass Communication    3 CM - 199 Communication Theory   3
Free Elective 3 CM - 206 Public Speaking    3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Two

Fall Spring
TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6)       3 TH - 109 Catholic Theology  or Expanded Literacies (3/6)  3
Expanded Literacies (4/6) 3 Expanded Literacies (5/6)  3
CM - 220 Journalism    3 Expanded Literacies (6/6)  3
Controlled Pre-Professional Elective* 3 Controlled CM Elective* 3
Free Elective 3 Controlled Pre-Professional Elective** 3
UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy    1 UNIV - 110 Being Well  or FN - 100 Financial Literacy ​  1
TOTAL CREDITS 16 TOTAL CREDITS 16

Year Three

Fall Spring
Lens 1, 2, or 3 (1/3) 3 Lens 1, 2, or 3 (2/3) 3
CM - 310 Fundamentals of Public Relations   3 CM - 391 Communication Internship  (Health Communication) 3
Controlled CM Elective* 3 Controlled CM Elective* 3
Free Elective 3 Controlled Pre-Professional Elective** 3
Free Elective 3 Free Elective 3
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 15

Year Four

Fall Spring
Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3 Catholicism in Dialogue or Lens 1, 2, or 3 (3/3) 3
Controlled CM Elective* 3 CM - 405 Communication Research Seminar   4
Controlled CM Elective*  3 Controlled Pre-Professional Elective** 3
Free Elective  3 Free Elective 3
Free Elective  3    
TOTAL CREDITS 15 TOTAL CREDITS 13

TOTAL OVERALL CREDITS: 120

*Controlled CM Electives - Choose seven of the following courses: CM 205 , CM 210 CM 275 , CM 290 , CM 309 CM 313 CM 314 , CM 315 , CM 316 , CM 318 , CM 319 , CM 320 , CM 325 , CM 360 , CM 365 CM 380 , CM 390 , CM 391 , CM 460 ; CM/EN 212 , EN 312 , and EN 340 

*Controlled Pre-Professional Electives in Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations - Complete all of the following courses: HCM 230 , HCM 290 , HCM 314 , and HCM 318 .  

For more information about the requirements in our general education Connections Curriculum, which are included in the sample plan above, please see I. General Education (Connections Curriculum), which can be found in The Undergraduate Program .