Program: Mass Communication - University of North Carolina Asheville

Required courses for the major—40 hours distributed as follows:

Required Courses outside the major—None

Other departmental requirements:

Major competency is demonstrated through successful completion of academic and professional projects and activities. Specific requirements and procedures for documenting competence in the major should be obtained from the department chair, and will include successful completion of a comprehensive project or examination as part of a 400-level seminar, preparation of a portfolio of completed work, and a co-curricular transcript.

Liberal Arts Core (LAC)

For additional information about the Liberal Arts Core and the specific courses that fulfill the requirements, visit the Office of the Registrar website, https://registrar.unca.edu/liberal-arts-core.

Liberal Arts Core Requirements

Courses that satisfy some of the following LAC requirements can be found throughout the curriculum and may be used to fulfill multiple requirements.

Requirement	Credits
First-Year Seminar	3-4
Academic Writing and Critical Inquiry	4
Humanities	12
Laboratory Science	4
Scientific Perspectives	3-4
Quantitative Perspectives	4
Social Science	3-4
Second Language (proficiency through the 2nd semester)	0-8
Arts and Ideas	3-4
Senior Capstone	4
Diversity Intensive (DI and DI-R)	6-8

Mass Communication