Total credits in the minor: 16
Credits at CSUMB: Please see an HCOM advisor.
None
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
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 312 Cooperative Argumentation
HCOM 317S Advanced Composition & Composition Theories: Service Learning
HCOM 318 Advanced Composition Theory & Practice for K-8 teachers
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
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 307 The Social Impact of the Mass Media
HCOM 307S The Social Impact of the Mass Media: Service Learning
HCOM 316 Media Ethics
HCOM 328 Latina Life Stories and Digital Storytelling
HCOM 329 Autobiography/Autobiografias
HCOM 350 Oral History and Community Memory
HCOM 350S Oral History and Community Memory: Service Learning
HCOM 384 Newswriting
HCOM 385 Reporting
HCOM 387 Digital Magazine Workshop
HCOM 390 Magazine Writing
HCOM 446 Ethnographic Portraits in Cultural Citizenship
HCOM 487S Community Media Project: Service Learning
Or complete the following course after receiving consent from the instructor: HCOM 389 Otter Realm
LO 3 Relational Communication Skills ~ ability to interact ethically and effectively in interpersonal and group communication and decision making processes
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 304 Relational Ethics
HCOM 309 Intercultural Communication: Relating to Whiteness
HCOM 310 Free Speech and Responsibility
HCOM 403 Ethical Issues in the Professions
HCOM 412 Multicultural Conflict Resolution
LO 4 Philosophical Analysis ~ ability to understand why and how beliefs, values, assumptions, and communication practices interact to shape ways of being and knowing
Complete HCOM 301 Ways of 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
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 340S Topics in Social Movements: Leadership and Empowerment
HCOM 342 Feminist Theories and Methods
HCOM 343 Race and Gender Justice
HCOM 344 Chicana/Latina Feminisms
HCOM 345 Chicano/a Latino/a Life and Culture
HCOM 348 Race, Colonialism, and Film
HCOM 426 Travel Narratives
HCOM 440 Leadership in Multicultural Communities
HCOM 443 Black Feminist Theory and Praxis
HCOM 455/555 Paradigms of the Chicana/o Community
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
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 322 Asian American Literature
HCOM 323 American Drama
HCOM 324 African American Narratives
HCOM 325 20th Century Narratives of American Immigration
HCOM 326 Jewish Holocaust Literature
HCOM 327 Survey of American Literature
HCOM 335 American Ethnic Literature and Cultures
HCOM 336 Poetry and Gender: Voices of Our Time
HCOM 337 Women's Literature
HCOM 338 Multicultural Adolescent Literature
HCOM 406 Philosophy According to the Movies
HCOM 427 Survey of British Literature
HCOM 428 Contemporary Chicana Poetry
HCOM 433 Life Stories & Life Writing
HCOM 436 Literature of Sexualities
HCOM 437 Shakespeare and Postcolonial Interpretations
HCOM 438 Author(s): Their Lives and Works
HCOM 452 Literature into Film
LO 7 Historical Analysis ~ ability to actively engage our complex multicultural pasts by integrating historical understanding with historical thinking skills
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 346 African American Life and History
HCOM 351 Modern World History
HCOM 352 History According to the Movies
HCOM 353 California at the Crossroads
HCOM 354 Whose America? Contested Memories in Public History
HCOM 356 Multicultural History in the New Media Classroom
HCOM 359 Sexuality, Law and Cultural Histories
HCOM 365 Chicano/a Latino/a History
HCOM 445 Slavery and 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
Complete one of the following:
HCOM 330 Introduction to Creative Writing
HCOM 330S Introduction to Creative Writing: Service Learning
HCOM 331 Creative Writing and Visual Art
HCOM 339S Creative Writing for Teachers Service Learning
HCOM 433 Life Stories & Life Writing
Or complete one of the following courses after receiving consent from the instructor:
HCOM 332 Poetry Writing Workshop
HCOM 333 Women's Writing Workshop
HCOM 334 Fiction/Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop
HCOM 432 Social Action Writing
HCOM 432S Social Action Writing: Service Learning