Courses

DEGREE REQUIREMENTS (180 ECTS)

CORE COURSES (6 courses, 36 ECTS)

• Introduction to Academic Writing & Critical Thinking
• Global Ethics
• Leadership & Personal Development
• Introduction to Statistics
• Intermediate Qualitative Research Methods
• Intermediate Quantitative Research Methods

MAJOR REQUIREMENTS (16 courses, 96 ECTS)

• Introduction to Economics*OR Introduction to Global Business
• Global Politics* OR Introduction to International and European Law*
• Human Communication
• Media and Society
• Intercultural Communication
• Persuasive Communication
• Corporate Communication & Public Relations
• Political Communication
• Lobbying in the EU
• Global Advocacy
• Communication Audiences & Effects
• Marketing Communication & Advertising
• Communication Ethics & Law
• Communication Ethics & Law
• Capstone in Communication Studies
• BA Thesis in Communication Studies (Advanced Research Methods)
• BA Thesis in Communication Studies (Senior Seminar)

MAJOR ELECTIVES (4 courses, 24 ECTS)

Any of the 200- or 300- level CMM courses that are not listed as major requirements may be taken as major electives, including courses from the summer programme:

• Gamification in Politics, Business and Communications
• Global Communication
• Photojournalism
• World Cinema: History, Theory and Narration
• European Cinema: Present, Past and Future Trends
• Transmedia Scriptwriting
• Video Production: Theory and Practice
• Public Diplomacy

In addition, students may choose the following courses from other majors. These courses count as major electives.

• Social Marketing
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Big Data
• Law and Technology
• Western Democracy in Crisis: Post-Truth Politics, Rise of Populism
• European Union Politics: Introduction to the European Union
• Policies in the European Union
• Internship

FREE ELECTIVES (24 ECTS)

Free electives are entirely at the student’s discretion.

Writing Across the Media

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MINORS

 Comment: in new programme, minors in marketing, digital and visual communication, strategic communication and European Union studies easier to take because of pre-selected non-major MEs.

Minor in Marketing

BUS 131G        International Marketing
BUS 233G        Social Marketing (pre: BUS 131G)
BUS 262G        Social Entrepreneurship (pre: ECN 101G)
CMM 106G      Intercultural Communication
CMM 214G      Gamification in Politics, Business and Communications
CMM 242G      Corporate Communication & Public Relations
CMM 341G      Marketing Communication and Advertising

If developed:   CMM 254G Branding Politics. Political Marketing in the 21st Centur 

Minor in Digital and Visual Communication

CMM 132G      Writing Across the Media
CMM 232G      Video Production: Theory and Practice
CMM 233G      Photojournalism
CMM 261G      World Cinema: History, Theory and Narration
CMM 262G      European Cinema: Present, Past and Future Trends
CMM 263G      Transmedia Scriptwriting

Minor in Strategic Communication

BUS 364G        Scenario Thinking (pre: BUS101G, MTH140G or STA101G)
CMM 214G      Gamification in Politics, Business and Communications
CMM 221G      Global Communication
CMM 242G      Corporate Communication & Public Relations
CMM 251G      Political Communication
CMM 252G      Lobbying in the EU
CMM 341G      Marketing Communication & Advertising
CMM XXXG     Public Diplomacy

If developed:   CMM 254G Branding Politics. Political Marketing in the 21st Century

Minor in European Union Studies 

POL 231G European Union Politics
POL 233G The EU’s Approach to Democratisation and Human Rights
POL 234G Economics and Politics of the European Union
POL 333G Policies in the EU
POL 334G The European Union in the World

All our courses are taught in English.