Finalize Request #5927

The changes to the major include a new introductory course in communication, COMM 101: Communication in the 21st Century. This course was recently approved by the College Curriculum Committee and was designed to provide students with an overview of the field of communication studies and the ways in which communication can help address important challenges and opportunities in modern society. We have substituted COMM 101 for COMM 200 which will no longer be required of majors or minors. 

We have also added in the requirement of two (out of three options) foundational 200-level courses to ensure that students have a foundation in one of the three core competency objectives: Advocate, Negotiate, and Relate. One of these courses is an approved existing course. The other two courses are being designed and should be approved courses by 2014-2015 AY. Therefore, we want students to begin taking them, but because we do not yet have approved course numbers we made requirement #3 purposefully broad for this year's bulletin.