Communication Degrees Online

Admission Requirement – Special
In addition to meeting the university admissions requirements, students pursuing the Communications Studies sequence must have completed the following prerequisite with a grade of “C” or better in COMS 310 . Students pursuing the Media Communications sequence must have completed the following prerequirsites with a grade of “C” or better in MCOM420 or MCOM 530 or MCOM 531; and MCOM 511.
Internship and Thesis/Project Options

As part of this degree program, students select an intership or thesis/project option, depending on the sequence chosen.

In the communicaiton studies intership option, the student selects an internship and developes an internship agreement with the assistance of the internship site supervisor and GSU coordinator, the student may register for COMS880. Graduate interships may only be pursued by students in the communication studies sequence; graduate students in the Media Communications and graduate students in the Media Communications and Human Performance and Training sequences are required to take the thesis/creative project option.

In the thesis/project option, the student develops a proposal acceptable to the thesis director, completes a project or a formal acceptable to the thesis director,completes a project or a former thesis/project. The project is prepared under the direciton of a committee consisting of three faculty. Students may register for COMS 890, MCOM890 , or HPT891. Once the selection of the committee has been approved by the students thesis director.,

Admission to Candidacy
After admission as a degree seeking student, a student also must apply for candidacy. Application for cadidacy should be made at the begining of the trimester in which the student expects to fulfill the cadidacy requirements.To qualify for cadidacy a student must complete 15 hours of course work in the major with a grade point average of “B” or higher.More detailed cadidacy information is available through divison office or the students advisor

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