2024-2025 Undergraduate Course Catalog 
    
    Dec 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Course Catalog

Strategic Communications, BS


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Contact:

Carolyn Hedges, Program Director
cdhedges@syr.edu, 315-443-9255

The Strategic Communications BS degree, provided by the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, offers a comprehensive and contemporary undergraduate education through an exclusive online platform. This program caters to students seeking to advance their education, fostering an interdisciplinary approach to communication. The Strategic Communications program combines essential courses from public relations, advertising, and visual communications, forming a foundational curriculum rooted in broader communication principles. This curriculum covers crucial aspects like data-driven insights, ethics, storytelling, and theoretical applications. 

The primary objective of delivering this program online is to extend the exceptional educational offerings of Newhouse to non-traditional students who are unable to participate in on-campus classes. This approach ensures that a wider range of learners can benefit from the academic excellence Newhouse is renowned for.

Required Minor (18 credits)


Students are required to choose one minor from the following choices in the College of Professional Studies.

1. Creative Leadership

2. Knowledge Management

3. Project Management

Liberal Arts Requirements (60 credits)


The Liberal Studies Core gives a foundation in writing, language or quantitative skills, humanities, social science, natural science, and critical reflections. It draws upon lower-division courses in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Other online liberal arts courses can be used to satisfy these requirements under the guidance of the program.

Foreign Language or Quantitative Skills (8 credits)


Students will take two courses from the options below.

NOTE: Students need to take a sequence in either language or quantitative skills.

Natural Sciences (3 credits)


Students choose one course from the following options:

Liberal Arts Electives (27 credits)


Students choose nine additional courses from the liberal arts options offered online.

University Requirement (1 credit)


Total Credits: 120


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