Communication Degrees Online

Core Comminucation Requirements: 30 units for both Public Relations/Advertising and Theory emphases:
COMM 104, 226, 244, 285, 288, 328, 344, 485, 490

Required Cognate: Math 251 Introduction to Statistics (4), or BUAD 341 for COMM 490

Public Relations and Advertising
69 units total (27 units upper division) including the core curriculum; the remaining 39 units include the following specified 20 units from Communication and 19 units from Art:
COMM 215, 237, 238, 315, and 338 or 339
ARTS 194B, 194C, 248, 255, 344, 345
Required Cognate: ARTS 115, prerequisite for ARTS 116 and ARTS 248
Recommended: COMM 494 (4), Internship (4)

Theory
62 units total (28 units upper division) including the core curriculum; the remaining 32 units include the following 20 specified Communication units and 12 Communication units (4 units must be upper division) that a student chooses in consultation with advisor: COMM 202, 264B, 365, 487A, 488

MINOR IN COMMUNICATION

32 units (16 upper division), including
COMM 202 Social Rhetoric (4)
COMM 226 Mass Media in Society (4)
COMM 244 Interpersonal Communication (4)
COMM 288 Communication Theory I (4)
COMM 285/485 Communication Colloquium (Four years of residence requires 1 unit of 285 and 1 unit of 485)

LSU’s master’s program is broadly based in British and American literature. As a graduate student, you will be expected to take forty-eight hours, twenty-four of which must be at the graduate level (click here for complete degree requirements). A class in research methods and proven facility in a foreign language are required; the rest of your program will be individually designed according to your background and interests.

Many of our students consider their experience as a teaching assistant to be the most important part of the MA program. If you apply for and receive a teaching assistantship, you will teach one class of college writing per quarter under the supervision of Dr. Elissa Kido, director of the writing program and Dr. Mary Wilson, our department chair . Teaching assistants are also required to take the class, Composition Theory, in their first quarter on campus.

Again, thank you for considering graduate study at La Sierra University. Please browse through our English department web site to learn more about our program. For news about what our current MA students and recent graduates are doing, click here. If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us.

Sincerely,

Dr. Lora Geriguis
Graduate Student Advisor

The Department of Communication is guided by Lasallian values, which serve as a basis for our decisions, and provide the framework for the ethical and behavioral values we strive to model for our students. Primary among these values is an abiding respect for the uniqueness of each student, the provision of a practical education, and the creation of a shared teaching and learning community.

Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Com Center 223
215.951.1207
texter@lasalle.edu