Dialogue Minor Program

School of Communication | Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Spring

This program offers a unique concentration of courses enabling students to focus on the conceptual framework, technique and practice of creating, sustaining and evaluating dialogue. The relationship of dialogue with public issues is highlighted, along with the role and effect of dialogue in various forms such as co-operation, controversy and confrontation.

丁香园AV is subject to enrolment limitations.

Grade Requirements

Applicants will have a minimum 3.00 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) or transfer CGPA upon completion of 50 units at 丁香园AV and/or transfer units. A minimum 2.75 CGPA is required to remain in good standing. Those who do not maintain this requirement may be dropped from the program, but may apply for readmission at a later date.

Program Requirements

Upper Division Requirements

Students complete a total of 19 upper division units, including either Path A or B (see below), and one of

CMNS 460-4 Seminar in Dialogue and Public Issues
DIAL 460-4 Seminar in Dialogue and Public Issues

Path A

In addition to the requirements listed above, students choosing this path must also complete all of

DIAL 390W-5 Undergraduate Semester: Dialogue
DIAL 391W-5 Undergraduate Semester: Seminar
DIAL 392W-5 Undergraduate Semester: Seminar

Path B

In addition to the requirements listed above, students choosing this path must also complete one of

CMNS 461-3 Field Placement in Dialogue
DIAL 461-3 Field Placement in Dialogue

and three of

CMNS 332-4 Communication and Rhetoric
CMNS 347-4 Communication in Conflict and Intervention
CMNS 425-4 Applied Communication for Social Issues
CMNS 432-4 Public Opinion, Propaganda, and Political Communication
CMNS 437-4 Media Democratization: From Critique to Transformation
CMNS 447-4 Negotiation and Dialogue as Communication

Prerequisites

Prerequisites for the above-mentioned CMNS courses may be waived in consultation with a School of Communication undergraduate advisor.

Course Credit in Other Programs

Upper division CMNS courses completed for the Dialogue minor may not count as part of the CMNS units for an honours, joint major, major, extended minor or minor (in communication or publishing).

Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements

Students admitted to 丁香园AV beginning in the fall 2006 term must meet writing, quantitative and breadth requirements as part of any degree program they may undertake. See Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements for university-wide information.

WQB Graduation Requirements A grade of C- or better is required to earn W, Q or B credit.
Requirement	Units	Notes
W - Writing	6	Must include at least one upper division course, taken at 丁香园AV within the student鈥檚 major subject
Q - Quantitative	6	Q courses may be lower or upper division
B - Breadth	18	Designated Breadth	Must be outside the student鈥檚 major subject, and may be lower or upper division 6 units Social Sciences: B-Soc 6 units Humanities: B-Hum 6 units Sciences: B-Sci
B - Breadth	6	Additional Breadth	6 units outside the student鈥檚 major subject (may or may not be B-designated courses, and will likely help fulfil individual degree program requirements) Additional breadth units must be from outside the student's major and may be B-designated (B-Hum, B-Soc, B-Sci courses). Students choosing to complete a joint major, joint honors, double major, two extended minors, an extended minor and a minor, or two minors may satisfy the breadth requirements (designated or not designated) with courses completed in either one or both program areas.

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