Program Map

Communication Studies 2.0 - Associate in Arts for Transfer

Program Map

Communication Studies 2.0 - Associate in Arts for Transfer

Associate in Arts for Transfer
Fall 2025
  • Communication, Language & Media

This program map from the 2024-2025 catalog year represents one possible pathway to complete this program. Your pathway may vary depending on your transfer plans and also previous college credit, including AP Test scores, concurrent enrollment courses and high school articulated courses.

I'm ready to get started. What do I do next?

  1. Review this program map to get an overview of the required courses
  2. Meet with a counselor to develop your customized student education plan www.chabotcollege.edu/counseling
  3. Use DegreeWorks, an online student education planning tool, to track your progress toward graduation www.chabotcollege.edu/admissions/degreeworks
Communication Studies explores the complexity of human interaction, including how people create messages, receive and transmit information, and influence others. Communication Studies will help you develop life skills in building relationships, creating and understanding the impact of messages, and developing effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills . You can use your communication skills in everyday life and nearly any career, but you are especially tracked towards careers in public relations, advertising, corporate training, customer service, politics, and hospitality.

Communication Studies builds a number of skills that will assist you in nearly every job, as well as help you build interpersonal and group relationships, transmit information, and persuade others. Additionally, these abilities can directly lead to the following careers:

  • Human Resources
  • Public Relations
  • Advertising
  • Organizational Communication Specialist
  • Brand Strategist
  • Law
  • Hospitality
  • Customer Service
  • Corporate Training
  • Politics
  • Instructional Designer
  • Sales
  • Social Media Director
  • On-Air Talent

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/what-you-can-do-with-a-communications-degree

https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/finding-a-job/top-communications-degree-jobs

Critical Course Prerequisite for Other Courses Prerequisite Required Required for Major GE General Education

Semester 1
 
13 - 15 units
COMM C1000
Introduction to Public Speaking (Active)
GE
3.0
English 1- Critical Reading and Composition
 
GE
4.0
Math Course for General Education: see a counselor to choose the appropriate course. (MTH 47 recommended)
 
GE
3.0-5.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.
 
GE
3.0
Semester 2
 
16 units
COMM 10
Interpersonal Communication (Active)
3.0
List A course
 
3.0
Take one List A course from the list below.
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.
 
GE
3.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.
 
GE
4.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate general education pattern and general ed course option for this term.
 
GE
3.0
Semester 3
 
15 units
List A Course
 
3.0
Take one course from List A below
List A Course
 
3.0
Take one course from List A below.
List B Course
 
3.0
Take once course from List B below
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate course or review the CSU Breadth or IGETC General Education list
 
GE
3.0
Elective- see a counselor to choose a course that counts for elective units (can be any credit course).
 
3.0
Semester 4
 
16 units
Elective- see a counselor to choose a course that counts for elective units (can be any credit course).
 
3.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate course or review the CSU Breadth or IGETC General Education list
 
GE
3.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate course or review the CSU Breadth or IGETC General Education list
 
GE
3.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate course or review the CSU Breadth or IGETC General Education list
 
GE
4.0
General Education Course- see a counselor to choose the appropriate course or review the CSU Breadth or IGETC General Education list
 
GE
3.0
List A
 

Complete 9 units from the list below

25 - 28 units
COMM 2
Oral Interpretation of Literature (Active)
3.0
COMM 3
Group Communication (Historical)
3.0
COMM 11
Intercultural Communication (Active)
3.0
COMM 12
Gender, Sexual Identity, and Communication (Active)
3.0
COMM 20
Persuasion and Communication (Active)
3.0
COMM 46
Argumentation and Debate (Active)
3.0
COMM 48
Activities in Forensics (Active)
1.0-4.0
COMM 50
Introduction to Communication Studies (Active)
3.0
MCOM 41
Introduction to Mass Communications (Active)
3.0
List B
 

Complete 3 units from the list below

28 units
Any List A course not used to satisfy List A
 
3.0
COMM 6
Introduction to Performance Studies (Active)
3.0
COMM 70A
Introduction to Communication Tutor Training (Active)
2.0
ENGL 4A
Critical Thinking and Writing about Literature (Active)
4.0
ENGL C1001
Critical Thinking and Writing (Active)
4.0
MCOM 20
Introduction to Journalism Reporting and News Writing (Active)
3.0
PSYC C1000
Introduction to Psychology (Active)
3.0
SOCI 1
Principles of Sociology (Active)
3.0
ANTH 3
Social and Cultural Anthropology (Active)
3.0
Total Units: 60.0-62.0