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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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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.

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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