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Nov 04, 2025
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2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog
Public Relations
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Minimum number of credits to complete the minor: 20
Minimum cumulative GPA required to graduate: 2.0
School: School of Arts and Sciences
Department: Communication and Media
Learn more about the program
As a Public Relations minor, you’ll learn how to produce and consume communications and understand how messages influence everyday life, culture, and public opinion. As a Public Relations minor, you will:
- Develop and analyze strategic communication campaigns
- Apply persuasion and public opinion theories and concepts to campaigns
- Write both news articles and press releases
- Prepare persuasive and effective messages for a variety of contexts and media
- Consume and critically unpack scholarly and applied forms of research related to public relations and other persuasive fields
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Minor Requirements
Three courses are required and two are electives. Students need not take the courses in a particular order; however, taking COM 2401 Media and Culture first is recommended. Additionally, no more than two courses (eight credits) from the Communication and Media major or any other major or minor external to Communication and Media, may count towards the completion of this minor. No courses from another Communication and Media minor (Communication and Media, Digital Media Production, Film Studies [interdisciplinary]) may count towards the completion of this minor. Core Courses
Complete three courses from the following: Required Electives
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