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Sep 28, 2024
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2024-2025 Catalog
Professional Communication, A.A.
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Major Code: (0922)
Associate of Arts Learning Outcomes
The successful student will:
- Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
- Employ communication theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts for professional issues.
- Analyze and create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
- Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals (self-efficacy) in professional contexts.
- Apply ethical communication principles and practices.
- Utilize communication to embrace difference and influence public discourse.
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Degree Requirements
The Professional Communications degree follows the Rio model of two-year associate degree + two-year stackable bachelor’s degree. Students take classes in Communication, Art, and English to gain the perspective, knowledge, and skills necessary to communicate professionally, creatively, and effectively in the 21st century workplace. In the 4-year bachelor program, students are offered internship opportunities with local businesses and agencies and choose from a variety of course electives that will enhance their individual interests, their future goals, and their Professional Communications portfolios.
General Education Requirements
Communication Skills (9 hours)
Health and Physical Education (2 hours)
Arts/Humanities (9 hours)
Social Sciences (6 hours)
Mathematics and Natural Sciences (12-13 hours)
Total General Education hours: 39-40
Total Hours Required for Degree: 64-65
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