Requirements for ESMP-HCOM Students

The following courses are required for HCOM majors who have selected the English Subject Matter Preparation Concentration. These courses fulfill the requirements of the major and the concentration.

HCOM Students are required to complete one course approved as research or theory intensive; these courses are indicated as (RTI) in the course lists below.

Complete ALL of the following courses:

• HCOM 300: Major ProSeminar (2 units)
• HCOM 320: Grammar, Usage, and Power (4 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 327: Survey American Literature (4 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 338: Multicultural Adolescent Lit (4 units)
• HCOM 429: BritLit& Engl Lang Perspective (6 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 437: Shakespeare (4 units)
• HCOM 475: Senior Capstone (4 units)

Complete ONE of the following course combinations (not necessarily in the same semester):

• HCOM 312: Cooperative Argumentation-Theory and Practice (4 units) AND HCOM 339S: Creative Writing and Service Learning (6 units)
• HCOM 317S: Advanced Composition, Composition Theories, Service Learning (6 units) AND HCOM 330: Intro Creative Writing (4 units)

Complete EITHER Option A or Option B below:

Option A: Complete HCOM 356: Multicultural History (4 units) AND ONE of the following courses (not necessarily in the same semester):

• HCOM 307: Social Impact of Mass Media (4 units)
• HCOM 307S: Soc Impct Of Mass Media SL (6 units)
• HCOM 315: Media for Social Change (4 units)
• HCOM 316: Media Ethics (4 units)
• HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units)
• HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units)
• HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem (4 units)
• HCOM 350S: Oral Hist/Comm Mem SL (6 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 384 (RTI)
• HCOM 385: Reporting (4 units)
• HCOM 390: Magazine Writing (4 units)
• HCOM 446: EthnograpPortraits/Culture Cit (4 units)
• HCOM 487S: Community Media Project SL (6 units)
• HCOM 389: Otter Realm Workshop (4 units) (Only with prior consent of the instructor)

Option B: Complete HCOM 328: Latina Life Stories (4 units) OR HCOM 329: Auto/Biografias (4 units) OR HCOM 350: Oral Hist/Comm Mem (4 units) AND one of the following courses (not necessarily in the same semester):

• HCOM 346: African American Life/History (4 units)
• HCOM 351: Modern World History (4 units)
• HCOM 352: History According To Movies (4 units)
• HCOM 353: California At Crossroads (4 units)
• HCOM 354: Whose America? (4 units)
• HCOM 356: Multicultural History (4 units)
• HCOM 359: Sexuality, Law and History (4 units)
• HCOM 365: Chicana/o Latina/o History (4 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 445: Slavery & Race in the Americas (4 units)
• HCOM 451: Transnational Migrations (4 units)
• HCOM 454: History of Victorian Britain (4 units)

Complete ONE of the following courses:

• HCOM 304: Relational Ethics (4 units)
• HCOM 306: Gender and Communication (4 units)
• HCOM 309: Interracial Communication (4 units)
• HCOM 310: Free Speech & Resp (4 units)
• HCOM 403: Ethical Issues (4 units) (RTI)
• HCOM 403S: Ethics in the Professions:SL (6 units)
• HCOM 412: Multicultural Conflict Resolut (4 units) (RTI)

Complete ONE of the following courses:

• HCOM 301: Ways Of Knowing (4 units)
• HCOM 404: Restorative Justice (4 units)
• HCOM 405: Philosophy and Sexualities (4 units)
• HCOM 406: Philosophy According to Movies (4 units) (RTI)