Course Description
COMM 496
Senior Seminar: Ethics in Human Communication
Units: 3
This seminar in ethics and communication helps students understand the ethical dilemmas faced by communicators in a variety of situations. Through the examination of various communication theories, students come to understand the powerful ways in which communication defines, creates, maintains, and/or changes social reality and understand the ethical implications involved in each of these communication functions. Meets the General Studies senior seminar requirement.

Prerequisites: A student intending to register for Senior Seminar must meet the following prerequisites.

1. Completion of a minimum of 90 units
2. Completion of the Upper-division Writing Intensive requirement
3. Completion of God’s Word and the Christian Response units, according to the following:

• For students transferring in 0–27 units: 9 units of God’s Word and the Christian Response
• For students transferring in 28–59 units: 6 units of God’s Word and the Christian Response
• For students transferring in 60 or more units: 3 units of God’s Word and the Christian Response