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Dialogue Minor Program

School of Communication | Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology
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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.

This program, along with another minor or extended minor in a relevant department, may be completed as part of a Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, or Faculty of Communication, Art and Technology BA degree.

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV Requirements

¶¡ÏãÔ°AV is subject to enrolment limitations.

Applicants will have a minimum 3.00 cumulative grade point average (CGPA) or transfer CGPA upon completion of 50 units at ¶¡ÏãÔ°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

  • CMNS 460 Seminar in Dialogue and Public Issues (4)

Path A

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

  • DIAL 390W Undergraduate Semester: Dialogue (5)
  • DIAL 391W Undergraduate Semester: Seminar (5)
  • DIAL 392W Undergraduate Semester: Final Project (5)

Path B

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

  • CMNS 461 Field Placement in Dialogue (3)
  • and three of

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

Prerequisites

    Prerequisites for the above-mentioned CMNS courses may be waived in consultation with an 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).

Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements

    Students admitted to ¶¡ÏãÔ°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 ¶¡ÏãÔ°AV within the student’s major subject
    Q - Quantitative

    6

    Q courses may be lower or upper division
    B - Breadth

    18

    Designated Breadth Must be outside the student’s 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

    6

    Additional Breadth

    6 units outside the student’s 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 honours, 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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