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Communication Studies Major

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Recommended Courses That Meet General Education Core Requirements

The Greenspun College of Urban Affairs strongly recommends that students address their General Education Core curriculum requirements through our college. The following classes offered in our college meet graduation requirements.

Constitution

Social Sciences

Life and Physical Science

Multicultural

International

In addition

Incoming freshmen are strongly encouraged to join a Learning Community (LC) during their first-year at UNLV. A Learning Community is a cohort of students who take coursework together and might benefit from the following outcomes: greater course satisfaction, increased interaction between faculty and students, increased understanding of the connections between disciplines, better connections with peers, improved student engagement and involvement on campus, increased satisfaction with the college experience.

Degree Requirements

General Education Requirements

 

First-Year Seminar - Total Credits: 2-3

 

English Composition - Total Credits: 6

Second - Year Seminar - Total Credits: 3

 

Constitutions - Total Credits: 4-6

 

Mathematics - Total Credits: 3

MATH 120 or higher

Distribution Requirements: Humanities and Fine Arts

 

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  • Social Science - Total Credits: 9

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  • Life and Physical Sciences and Analytical Thinking - Total Credits: 9-10


  • and two courses from life and physical sciences category; at least one must be a lab.
     

Multicultural and International

(see note 1 below)

Additional Degree Requirements

Outside Area of Interest - Total Credits: 15

Other Electives - Total Credits: 29-33

 

Total Credits: 120

 

Note

  1. Every student must complete a three-credit multicultural course and a three-credit international course. Courses satisfying other requirements may simultaneously satisfy the multicultural and international requirements if they appear on the approved lists. However, one course cannot satisfy both the multicultural and the international requirements.

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