Speech Major
Speech Communication Option
Bachelor of Science
FAH BS 4304
- Minimum General Studies = 45
- including General Studies coursework required by major
- English Language minimum = 9
- Humanities minimum = 9
- Mathematics, Statistics & Computer Science minimum = 3
- Natural Sciences minimum = 7
- Social and Behavioral Sciences minimum = 9
- Personal Development minimum = 2
- BS Science-related course requirements = 0
- Major Option = 30
- Minor or 2nd Major, minimum = 24
- Minors are 24 hours, 18 must be unduplicated. Electing a second major may add as many as
18 required hours to the program. Should 6 hours of the minor also meet other
requirements, the unrestricted electives will be greater.
- Minimum total hours required coursework = 99
- Unrestricted electives in 125 hour program = 26
- Minimum total hours required for BS in Speech Communication = 125
- All UNK degrees require a minimum of 125 hours. Forty (40) of the hours required for
all UNK degrees must be upper division hours, which are courses numbered 300 or above
taken at a 4-year college or university.
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- Students selecting a major in Speech Communications must earn a minimum 2.5 G.P.A.
in the major.
- A. Speech Communication Requirements (15 hours required)
- Take all of the following:
- SPCH 201, Classical Traditions in the Communicative
Arts - 3 hours
- SPCH 205, Voice and Articulation - 3 hours
- SPCH 456, Rhetorical Theory - 3 hours
- Take 1 course from:
- SPCH 370, Small Group Communication - 3 hours
- SPCH 490, Theories of Interpersonal Communication - 3
hours
- Take 1 course from:
- SPCH 240, Public Speaking for Professions and Business
- 3 hours
- SPCH 360, Persuasion and Propaganda - 3 hours
- B. Speech Communication Electives (15 hours required)
- Take 15 hours from any of the preceding which were not chosen as required courses and/or
take from:
- SPCH 222, Oral Interpretation of Literature - 3 hours
- SPCH 229, Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication
- 3 hours
- SPCH 230, Nonverbal Communication - 3 hours
- SPCH 231, Introduction to Forensics and Debate - 3
hours
- SPCH 237, Intercollegiate Debate and Forensics - 1-4
hours
- SPCH 299, Organizational Communication - 3 hours
- SPCH 332, Logic Argumentation and Reasoning - 3 hours
- SPCH 357, History of Speakers and Issues - 3 hours
- SPCH 358, Contemporary American Oratory - 3 hours
- SPCH 450, General Semantics (Language and Behavior) -
3 hours
- SPCH 451, Leadership Communication - 3 hours
- SPCH 452, Theories of Organizational Communication - 3
hours
- SPCH 453, Interviewing - 3 hours
- SPCH 401, Seminar: Special Topics - 1-3 hours
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