Bachelor of Arts
Major Checksheet (opens as a PDF file)
The Department offers a comprehensive preparation in the field of communications firmly grounded in a well-rounded liberal arts education. In addition to developing written, spoken, and performance skills, students learn the theory, design, management, and production of communication.
Advanced courses in oral communication, management, graphics, audio and video production, among others, permit upper-class majors to advance into areas of concentration. Students may elect a concentration from: Corporate Communications (either public relations or marketing communications), Mass Communication, Mass Communication, New Media Communications, Cultural Studies Communications Department facilities are located in the Steinman Center for Communications and Art. This center contains modern equipment in audio and video studios, satellite communications and in photography, graphics, and multi-image laboratories. The student radio station, WWEC 88.3 FM, and the 24-hour local access cable television production facility, ECTV-Channel 40, are housed in the center.
The curriculum is complemented by a number of departmental student organizations: National Broadcasting Society - Alpha Epsilon Rho (Honors Society), ECTV Channel 40, WWEC 88.3 FM Radio, Photography Club, Society for Collegiate Journalists (Honorary Society), and the International Association of Business Communicators (Elizabethtown College chapter). In addition, The Etownian (student newspaper) and the Conestogan (yearbook), as departmentally related student activities, provide excellent journalism experiences for majors. These organizations sponsor speakers, workshops, contests, and field trips to enhance campus life and make the student's classroom experience more meaningful.
The curriculum, complemented by many co-curricular activities, prepares majors for careers in corporate and institutional communications, public relations, marketing communications, broadcasting, newspaper and magazine writing and reporting, advertising, sales, law, the ministry, and many more fields.
Graduates are prepared as communications generalists. However, required additional courses in an area of concentration allow students to focus their general preparation into a specific area of career interest.
There is a total of 56 credits required for a bachelor of arts degree with a communications major. There are 36 common credits including Communications 120, 125, 135, 210, 211, 220, 230, 248, 485, and 20 additional credits in a concentration.
Prior to pre-registration for the junior year, the student must elect a communications concentration, which requires 16 credits.
All majors are required to complete a minor area of study chosen in consultation with their advisor. The minor allows for complementary preparation in another discipline. The minor is also declared prior to pre-registration for the junior year.
Major Checksheet (opens as a PDF file)
The Department offers a comprehensive preparation in the field of communications firmly grounded in a well-rounded liberal arts education. In addition to developing written, spoken, and performance skills, students learn the theory, design, management, and production of communication.
Advanced courses in oral communication, management, graphics, audio and video production, among others, permit upper-class majors to advance into areas of concentration. Students may elect a concentration from: Corporate Communications (either public relations or marketing communications), Mass Communication, Mass Communication, New Media Communications, Cultural Studies Communications Department facilities are located in the Steinman Center for Communications and Art. This center contains modern equipment in audio and video studios, satellite communications and in photography, graphics, and multi-image laboratories. The student radio station, WWEC 88.3 FM, and the 24-hour local access cable television production facility, ECTV-Channel 40, are housed in the center.
The curriculum is complemented by a number of departmental student organizations: National Broadcasting Society - Alpha Epsilon Rho (Honors Society), ECTV Channel 40, WWEC 88.3 FM Radio, Photography Club, Society for Collegiate Journalists (Honorary Society), and the International Association of Business Communicators (Elizabethtown College chapter). In addition, The Etownian (student newspaper) and the Conestogan (yearbook), as departmentally related student activities, provide excellent journalism experiences for majors. These organizations sponsor speakers, workshops, contests, and field trips to enhance campus life and make the student's classroom experience more meaningful.
The curriculum, complemented by many co-curricular activities, prepares majors for careers in corporate and institutional communications, public relations, marketing communications, broadcasting, newspaper and magazine writing and reporting, advertising, sales, law, the ministry, and many more fields.
Graduates are prepared as communications generalists. However, required additional courses in an area of concentration allow students to focus their general preparation into a specific area of career interest.
There is a total of 56 credits required for a bachelor of arts degree with a communications major. There are 36 common credits including Communications 120, 125, 135, 210, 211, 220, 230, 248, 485, and 20 additional credits in a concentration.
Prior to pre-registration for the junior year, the student must elect a communications concentration, which requires 16 credits.
All majors are required to complete a minor area of study chosen in consultation with their advisor. The minor allows for complementary preparation in another discipline. The minor is also declared prior to pre-registration for the junior year.
