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12 semester hours in a foreign language in addition to other requirements. To earn a degree in
communications, the student must successfully complete a minimum of 120 semester hours.

Undergraduate programs within the Department prepare students for entry into the
communications professions and for subsequent graduate or advanced study. After completing
ENGL 101 and ENGL 102, Composition and Literature I and II, students must take and successfully
pass the Bowie State University English Proficiency Examination. Transfer students who completed
their English composition requirements at another university must take the English Proficiency
Examination during their First Semester of enrollment at the University.

GOALS
1. To provide education in the various fields of communications that will produce graduates
capable of assuming leadership roles in their respective fields of study

2. To produce well-informed individuals who are able to cope with rapid social and
technological changes within our society and to access information, evaluate it critically,
and codify it into effective messages for various audiences

3. To provide continuing education for professional development and personal enrichment
of practicing professionals

4. To provide an education that will prepare students to seek additional graduate learning or
certification in professional communications

COMMUNICATIONS

GENERAL EDUCATION AND INSTITUTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
(46-47 Semester hours) See page 111 for the full list of University General Education and Institutional
Requirements. General Education Electives must be selected with the help of the student’s
academic advisor.

CONCENTRATIONS:

BROADCAST JOURNALISM

The Broadcast Journalism program provides students with the education and skills needed to
pursue a career in a state-of-the-art broadcast news and digital production industry. This entails
broadcast news writing and announcing, as well as working with television cameras, producing,
and directing television and/or radio news programs. Students will have the opportunity to be
involved in producing television programs for BSU-TV and radio programs for WBSU.

CORE REQUIREMENTS (36 semester hours) Sem Hrs.
COMM 101 Oral Communications 3
COMM 103 Public Speaking or 3
COMM 104 Voice and Diction
COMM 240 Introduction to Mass Communications 3
COMM 248 Introduction to Broadcast News 3
COMM 331 Television Production 3
COMM 341 Media Ethics 3

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