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Agricultural and Environmental Communications and Education (AECE)

Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences (ACES) Communications Concentration
News-Editorial Specialization

Curriculum Checksheet (PDF version)

NOTE: This checklist represents the curriculum in ACES communications in effect for first-year students entering the AECE program in or after Fall 2008. The curriculum for students entering the program in earlier semesters or for students transferring from other UIUC colleges or other institutions may include slightly different requirements for graduation. Use this checklist only as a guide to the curriculum; consult your academic advisor with specific questions about your own graduation requirements.

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GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIRED

Composition and Speech

RHET 105 (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)
SPCM 101
Advanced Composition (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened. AGCM 320, a required course in this degree option, fulfills the Advanced Composition requirement.)

Quantitative Reasoning

MATH 124, 220, or 234
Statistics (Select from ACE 261, CPSC 141, CPSC 440, STAT 100, PSYC 235, EPSY 480, ECON 202, or SOC 280.)

Natural Sciences

Biological Sciences course (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)
Physical Sciences course (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)

Humanities

Two courses (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)

Social Sciences

PS 101
PSYC 100
Social Sciences course (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)

Cultural Studies

Western Culture (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)
Non-Western/U.S. Minority Culture (Refer to GENED list at http://courses.uiuc.edu/gened.)

Foreign Language

Completion of three years of the same language in high school, or of a third-semester college language course.

ACES REQUIRED

ACES 101

AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATONS AND EDUCATION REQUIRED

AGCM 110
RSOC 110

ACES COMMUNICATIONS CONCENTRATION REQUIRED

ACE 100
AGCM 210
AGCM 320

Two courses selected from:

AGCM 220
AGCM 240
AGCM 330
AGCM 370
AGCM 430

ACES electives

Eighteen hours in College of ACES courses other than AGCM, to include 10 hours in courses numbered 200 or higher. The majority of these courses should be chosen from one of three focus areas: agriculture and agribusiness, family and consumer sciences, or environment and natural resources.

COMMUNICATIONS

News-Editorial Specialization

Twenty hours from the College of Communications, including:

JOUR 400
JOUR 420
JOUR 425
One course from: COMM 317, 320, 331, 351, or 450; or JOUR 411
One course from: JOUR 405, 411, 415, 435, 460 (if 3 hours), 470, 475, or 480
ADV/COMM/JOUR elective

OPEN ELECTIVES (15-28 hours)

TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED: 126