Please check with your advisor if you have any questions. The Department Chair will help decide equivalencies in the major if the computer audit report does not identify equivalencies. If you enter George Mason University with some communication courses from another college or university, they are NOT automatically accepted as transfer hours within the major. When you receive your transcript evaluation from the Registrar, you can follow it up with a request to the Communication Department Chair, Dr. Don Boileau, for evaluation of previously taken communication courses. Such evaluation will require that you provide a course description from the previous college's catalog.
Course syllabi are most helpful for the evaluation of a previously taken course.
Dr. Boileau will then make a decision based on this information. If you take COMM 400 instead of COMM 250, then you need only take 5 additional classes to reach 45 hours of upper level credit. Many courses fulfill requirements in other areas in addition to fulfilling the Non-Western culture requirement. The list of acceptable Non-Western culture classes is provided in the undergraduate catalogue. Many of these are upper division, too, which counts toward the 45 hours of upper-division classes you must take.