Criticism and Public Communication, Interpersonal and Small Group Communication, Intercultural and International Communication, and Public Relations. Competency in one foreign language equivalent to third semester level. Specializations also offered in Applied Communication Studies, Critical-Cultural Studies, Interaction Studies, Intercultural and International Studies, and New Media Studies.
Students enter as pre-journalism major.
Completion of 56 college units with a minimum overall GPA of at least 2.50. ENGL 1B with grade of B or better. Mass Communication Mass Communication major at Berkeley is not a media production major. Rather, it uses perspectives from the Social Sciences and Humanities to examine the mass media. Students must present strong grades in prerequisites courses and submit a substantial research paper from one of these courses in order to demonstrate that they possess the critical writing and research skills necessary to succeed in upper division courses.