AgCom checksheet

Agricultural Communications Concentration
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Agricultural and Environmental Communications and Education (AECE)

Agricultural Communications Concentration

Curriculum Checksheet

NOTE: This checklist represents the curriculum in agricultural communications in effect for first-year students entering the AECE program in Fall 2003. 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.

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.)
One of the above courses must be selected from ACE 283, ANSCI 331, CHEM 102 and CHEM 103, GEOL 101, GEOL 107, IB 101, IB 103, MCB 100 and 101, PHYS 101, or MCB 103 and 104.

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 100

AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNICATONS AND EDUCATION REQUIRED

AGCM 110
AGED 220
RSOC 110

AGRICULTURAL COMMUNICATIONS CONCENTRATION REQUIRED

ACE 100
AGCM 210
AGCM 220
AGCM 320
AGCM 390
Two courses selected from ANSC 100; CPSC 112; FSHN 101 or 120; HORT 100; NRES 102 or 201; or TSM 100

ACES electives

Ten hours in College of ACES courses other than AGCM, to include eight hours in 200-, 300-, or 400-level courses

COMMUNICATIONS

Twenty hours from the College of Communications, including one of the following specializations:

Advertising Specialization

ADV 300
ADV 481
Five additional 400-level ADV courses

Broadcast Journalism Specialization

JOUR 400
JOUR 411
JOUR 435
JOUR 440
JOUR 445
College of Communication elective

News-Editorial Specialization

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, 440, 460 (if 3 hours), 475, or 485
College of Communication elective

OPEN ELECTIVES (15-28 hours)

TOTAL HOURS REQUIRED: 126