Each student has three advisors: a major advisor, a minor advisor, and a General Education advisor. The list of major advisors is available outside the Communication Studies Department office, Hugh Gillis Hall 108, and on the undergraduate advisors page. You choose your advisor. If possible, meet with the same advisor each time. There are special advisors for students emphasizing Pre-Law or Teacher Education.
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The new major will impact each student who started before Fall 2009 in different ways. If you haven't already, meet with Communication Studies advisor to chart out a plan for you to complete your requirements in the major.
Core Courses: COMM 101C (pre/corequisite for COMM 198 and 199C), COMM 198, and COMM 199C
Foundations • Inquiry • Practice Courses: Two courses from each area
Additional Courses: 8 units of electives in Communication Studies (may be upper- or lower-division)
COMM 198, taken when you are a senior, requires that you apply in a practical setting what you've learned in your major courses. The options are offered in 1-unit modules; you are required to take 2 units
The department offers a wide variety of courses. Identify your own interests, needs, and learning objectives as a basis for choosing your 8 units of additional courses. Meet with your advisor to help you select courses that best fit your educational and professional goals. These courses may be lower- or upper-division.
Any course you've taken at a community college is a lower-division course. At SJSU, any course numbered below 100 is lower-division and any course numbered 100 and above is upper-division. Community colleges never offer upper-division courses.
Yes, if it is a college-level course in communication studies, speech communication, or communication. Consult with your advisor to determine if you can count a community college course toward your COMM major at SJSU. You may count up to 8 units of lower division courses as additional courses toward your program of study. You may not double count lower-division communication courses used to satisfy your Core GE requirements toward the major.
Bring a course description (copied from the catalog of the school you previously attended) and/or syllabus and documentation showing the course was transferred. Your advisor will determine whether it is the equivalent of one of our courses. Note that core courses in the major are upper-division; upper-division courses must transfer in from a four-year school and be considered upper-division or junior/senior level at that school.)
"D-" is the lowest passing grade. Sometimes, as with GE Basic Skills and SJSU Studies courses, you must earn a "C" or better to meet the GE requirement, even though you pass the class with a lower grade. You must have an overall 2.0 GPA and a 2.0 in the major to be eligible to graduate.
No more than 6 units.
Double counting is when you use one course to count for both GE (Core GE and SJSU Studies) and the major. You may double count up to 6 units of SJSU Studies courses (currently COMM 100W, 157, 168, 168W, 174) toward the major. You may not double count any Core GE (lower division) courses.
A flag is a registration hold put on your records. The flag is placed on your records at the time of transfer. You must meet with a major advisor before your second semester at the University. At this meeting, your advisor will give you a form to turn in to the department office (HGH 108) to have your flag removed. (Ask for the form!) Failure to meet with an advisor and remove the flag will prevent you from being able to register for classes in the next semester.
Yes. You must have a minor completed in a department outside of Communication Studies or a self-designed interdisciplinary Minor you design working with your Communication Studies advisor. For the traditional minor, you work with an advisor in that department to determine the courses you need to take. For a self-designed interdisciplinary minor, you work with your Communication Studies advisor to identify appropriate courses outside the department. Courses in a the SDI minor are chosen because they best serve your professional objectives and personal interests. If you select another department as a minor, you will have your advising, and your forms, approved in that department (not in Communication Studies). If you select an SDI minor, your COMM major advisor is also your minor advisor. If a minor in another department requires fewer than 18 units (e.g., Business requires 15 units), make sure you meet the 120 units total for the University baccalaureate requirements.
There are two kinds of General Education requirements: Basic Skills (lower division, often taken at a community college, also called Core GE) and SJSU Studies (also called Advanced GE or upper-division GE). Go to the General Education Program page for more information.
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