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Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2025-2026

Media Arts : Public Relations Concentration, BA


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General Requirements


  • Admission to the program is contingent upon good academic standing and acceptance by the department.
  • The program will not accept D transfer credit in the major. Achievement of a grade of C or better is required in all major courses at Chicago State University.
  • Completion of 120 semester hours of work: 36 hours of general education, consisting of 6 hours in composition, 3 hours in mathematics, 3 hours in oral communication, 6 hours in natural sciences (physical science and biology; one must be a lab), and 9 hours in social sciences in a least two disciplines, 9 hours in humanities/fine arts with at least 3 hours in humanities and 3 hours in fine arts.
  • The College of Arts and Sciences also requires 3 hours of a foreign language and one embedded general education or major course carrying the diversity designation.
  • CMAT Course Requirements: 51 hours in CMAT core courses and 12 hours in Upper Division concentration courses.
  • One additional credit hour course (CMAT 1000   - CMAT Orientation) is required for freshman or transfer students with fewer than 45 credit hours.
  • CMAT Non-Major Electives: 18-21 hours; students can take any university-level courses to fulfill this requirement.

Specific Requirements


One of the following lower division theory/history courses:


One of the following upper division professional writing courses:


Required CMAT - Public Relations Concentration Courses (12 credit hours)


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