Recommended Academic Plan for Media Studies, Media Effects Option (MEDIA/Mefct at University Park)
Effective Fall 2006

Semester 1	Credits	Semester 2	Credits
Foreign Language	4	Foreign Language	4
Natural Sciences (GN)	3	CAS 100 (GWS) Effective Speech	3
Humanities (GH)	3	Arts (GA)	3
PSYCH 100 (GS) Intro Psychology	3	Humanities (GH)	3
ENGL 015 or 030 (GWS) Rhetoric & Comp or Honors Comp	3	Natural Sciences (GN)	3
First-Year Seminar	1
Total Credits:	17	Total Credits:	16
Semester 3	Credits	Semester 4	Credits
Foreign Language	4	COMM 100 Mass Media & Society	3
ECON 002 (GS) Microeconomic Anly	3	COMM 118 Intro to Media Effects	3
Quantification (GQ)	3	Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)	3
Natural Sciences (GN)	3	STAT 200 (GQ) Elementary Statistics	4
Arts (GA)	3	Other Cultures	3
Total Credits:	16	Total Credits:	16
Semester 5	Credits	Semester 6	Credits
COMM 405 Political Econ of Comm	3	COMM 304 Mass Comm Research	3
PSYCH 221 Intro to Social Psych; or PSYCH 256 Intro to Cognitive Psych	3	COMM 411 Cultural Aspects of Mass Media	3
Comm 150 Cinema Art; or Comm 205 Women, Minorities & Media	3	ENGL 202 (GWS) Effective Writing	3
Electives	6	Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain	3
		Health and Physical Activity (GHA)	1.5
Total Credits:	15	Total Credits:	13.5
Semester 7	Credits	Semester 8	Credits
COMM 413W Mass Media & the Public	3	PHIL (see advisor)	3
COMM 418 Media Effects	3	Bachelor of Arts Knowledge Domain (US or IL)	3
Option – Select 3 credits in research methods (see advisor)	3	Electives	7
Electives	3
Health and Physical Activity (GHA)	1.5
Total Credits:	13.5	Total Credits:	13

• Bold type indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better.
• Italics indicates courses that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
• Bold Italics indicates courses requiring a quality grade of C or better and that satisfy both major and General Education requirements.
• GWS, GHA, GQ, GN, GA, GH, and GS are codes used to identify General Education requirements.
• US, IL, and US;IL are codes used to designate courses that satisfy University United States/International Cultures requirements.
• W is the code used to designate courses that satisfy University Writing Across the Curriculum requirements.

Scheduling patterns for courses not taught each semester:

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