The Humanities & Communication Minor prepares you to meet the realities of 21st-century life and work. Blending a variety of humanities disciplines with communication studies, students learn to think critically and creatively, and communicate ethically and effectively to address humanity's problems and potential. This interdisciplinary minor complements any CSUMB major by accentuating fundamental communication, cross-cultural competency and reasoning skills. It prepares you specifically for careers in technology, business, education and science.
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Classes Taken
HCOM 301: Ways of Knowing (Fall 2018)
- Surveys the changing relationships among knowledge, truth, and reality in different cultural and historical contexts; investigates, evaluates, and apply different ways of knowing such as analytic, rational, creative, spiritual, emotional, and intersubjective to substantive topics or themes
- Students survey the history of free speech in the United States; they examine past and present controversies such as obscenity, hate speech, and media sensationalism; they identify, evaluate, and assess human rights and responsibilities surrounding the freedom of expression from various philosophical perspectives.
- Introduction to cooperative argumentation. Students develop empathic and critical listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills for cooperative deliberation and problem solving practices; apply and assess reasoning and argumentative skills in oral and written communication contexts on various topics.
- Travel narratives have played a powerful role in shaping social inequality by relating journeys to home audiences, portraying the "other," and revealing the culture and "self" of the traveler. This course examines the historical, literary, and cultural significance of narratives that convey and reinforce themes of discovery, conquest, colonization, exploration, and tourism in the Americas.