Credits Required
Total credits in the minor: 16
Credits at CSUMB: Please see an HCOM advisor.
Prerequisites
None
Outcomes, Courses and Assessment
To complete the minor, you must complete LO 4 and three other LOs of your choice from those listed below by successfully completing the listed courses or alternative assessment options.
LO 1 Critical Communication Skills ~ ability to communicate critically and empathically in both oral and written contexts, including reading, writing, listening, and speaking
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 312HCOM 312: Cooperative Argumentation; HCOM 317SHCOM 317S: Advanced Composition SL; HCOM 318HCOM 318: GWARAdvCompTheory/PracK-8Teach
LO 2 Media, Narrative, and Ethnographic Skills ~ ability to responsibly gather, interpret critically, narrate, and disseminate the voices and stories of people, communities, or events by integrating ethnographic or journalistic field research methods, cultural or media analysis, narrative writing, and media production, including new digital media
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 307HCOM 307: Social Impact of Mass Media; HCOM 307SHCOM 307S: Soc Impct Of Mass Media SL; HCOM 316HCOM 316: Media Ethics; HCOM 328HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories; HCOM 329HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias; HCOM 350HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem; HCOM 350SHCOM 350S: Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL; HCOM 384HCOM 384: Newswriting; HCOM 385HCOM 385: Reporting; HCOM 387HCOM 387: Media Production Lab; HCOM 390HCOM 390: Magazine Writing;
HCOM 446HCOM 446: EthnograpPortraits/Culture Cit; HCOM 487SHCOM 487S: Community Media Project SL -
Or complete the following course after receiving consent from the instructor: HCOM 389HCOM 389: Otter Realm Workshop
LO 3 Relational Communication Skills ~ ability to interact ethically and effectively in interpersonal and group communication and decision making processes
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 304HCOM 304: Relational Ethics; HCOM 309HCOM 309: Interracial Communication; HCOM 310HCOM 310: Free Speech & Resp; HCOM 403HCOM 403: Ethical Issues; HCOM 412HCOM 412: Multicultural Conflict Resolut
LO 4 Philosophical Analysis ~ ability to understand why and how beliefs, values, assumptions, and communication practices interact to shape ways of being and knowing
LO 5 Critical Cultural Analysis ~ ability to investigate and explain relationships among cultural ideologies and sociohistorical experiences, interests, identities, and actions of specific cultural groups
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 340SHCOM 340S: Topics in Social Movements SL; HCOM 342HCOM 342: Feminist Theories & Methods; HCOM 343HCOM 343: Race & Gender Justice; HCOM 344HCOM 344: Chicana/Latina Experiences; HCOM 345HCOM 345: Chicano Life & Culture; HCOM 348HCOM 348: Race, Colonialism & Film; HCOM 426HCOM 426: Travel Narratives; HCOM 440HCOM 440: Leadership & Community; HCOM 443HCOM 443: Black Feminist Theory & Praxis; HCOM 455HCOM 455: Paradigms Of Chicano Comm / HCOM 555HCOM 555: Paradigms Of Chicano Comm
LO 6 Comparative Literary Analysis ~ ability to appreciate and analyze literature in a social, historical, and cultural context ~ ability to compare and contrast literatures of at least three different cultural traditions, including non-Eurocentric traditions
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 322HCOM 322: Asian American Literature; HCOM 323HCOM 323: American Drama; HCOM 324HCOM 324: African American Narratives; HCOM 325HCOM 325: 20th Cent Narr Amer Immgr; HCOM 326HCOM 326: Jewish Holocaust Literature; HCOM 327HCOM 327: Survey American Literature; HCOM 335HCOM 335: Amer Ethnic Lit & Culture; HCOM 336HCOM 336: Poetry & Gender; HCOM 337HCOM 337: Women's Literature; HCOM 338HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Lit; HCOM 406HCOM 406: Philosophy Acrdng to Movies; HCOM 425HCOM 425: Post-Colonial Lit and Film; HCOM 427HCOM 427: Survey of British Literature; HCOM 428HCOM 428: Contemporary Chicana Poetry; HCOM 433HCOM 433: Life Stories & Life Writing; HCOM 436HCOM 436: Literature of Sexualities; HCOM 437HCOM 437: Shakespeare; HCOM 438HCOM 438: Author(s): Canon & Context; HCOM 452HCOM 452: Literature into Film
LO 7 Historical Analysis ~ ability to actively engage our complex multicultural pasts by integrating historical understanding with historical thinking skills
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 346HCOM 346: African American Life/History; HCOM 351HCOM 351: Modern World History; HCOM 352HCOM 352: History According To Movies; HCOM 353HCOM 353: California At Crossroads; HCOM 354HCOM 354: Whose America?; HCOM 356HCOM 356: Multicultural History; HCOM 359HCOM 359: Sexuality, Law and History; HCOM 365HCOM 365: Chicana/o Latina/o History; HCOM 445HCOM 445: Slavery & Race in the Americas
LO 8 Creative Writing and Social Action ~ ability to acquire basic competency in creative writing ~ ability to apply this skill to the production and presentation of an art project that actively responds to a public issue ~ ability to sustain the creative process throughout a given project, taking it to completion
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Complete one of the following:
HCOM 330HCOM 330: Intro Creative Writing; HCOM 330SHCOM 330S: Intro to Creative Writing SL; HCOM 331HCOM 331: Visual Art & Creative Writing; HCOM 339SHCOM 339S: Creative Writing & Service; HCOM 433HCOM 433: Life Stories & Life Writing -
Or complete one of the following courses after receiving consent from the instructor:
HCOM 332HCOM 332: Poetry Writing Workshop; HCOM 333HCOM 333: Women's Writing Workshop; HCOM 334HCOM 334: Fiction/Creative NonFiction Wr; HCOM 432HCOM 432: Soc Action Wrtg; HCOM 432SHCOM 432S: Social Action Writing