Communication Studies Major

Communication Studies Major - Storytelling

Storytelling builds connection, can foster dialogue across diverse populations, and enhance the work of individuals across a wide range of occupations.

Students in the program broaden thier storytelling horizons though connections and experiences with:

- The International Storytelling Center
- The National Storytelling Festival
- The ETSU Storytelling Collective

Storytelling Major Requirements:

36 credits dispersed across the following categories

Core Requirements: 15 Credits
Core (take all three - 9 credits)
- COMM 2330 - Communication Theory
- COMM 2090 - Interpersonal Communication
- COMM 4346 - Business and Professional Communication
Primary Skills Elective (choose at least one - 3 credits)
- COMM 2025 - Fundamentals of Communication
- COMM 2045 - Public Speaking
- COMM 2055 - Argumentation and Debate
Professional Development Elective (choose at least one - 3 credits)
- COMM 2700 - Professional Communication & Technology
- COMM 3045 - Advanced Public Speaking
- COMM 3380 - Communicating in Groups
- COMM 3346 - Speaking for Social Change
- COMM 4350 - Organizational Communication
Concentration Requirements: 15 Credits
Storytelling Core (take all four - 12 credits)
- STOR 2500 - Introduction to Storytelling
- STOR 3510 - Storytelling Oral Traditions
- STOR 4510 - Telling Personal Stories
- STOR 4647 - Applied Storytelling
Cultural Narrative Elective (from the complete list below, choose at least one - 3 credits)
- COMM 4200 - Gender and Communication
- COMM 4327 - Popular Communication
- COMM 4356 - Intercultural Communication
- HIST 3902 - The Great Debates in African American History
- SOCI 3110 - Minorities
- SOCI 3600 - Collective Behavior
- SOCI 4337 - Symbolic Interaction and Social Identity
- WGSS 2020 - Women in Global Perspective
- WGSS 2110 - Sex, Gender, and the Body
Additional Electives: 6 Credits
(from the complete list below choose at lease three - 6 credits)

(Choose from courses above not taken for the requirements, from below and/or any STOR course)
- APST 2060 - Introduction to Appalachian Studies
- COMM 3300 - Qualitative Communication Research
- COMM 3340 - Rhetorical Criticism
- COMM 3346 - Speaking for Social Change
- COMM 3350 - Relational Communication
- COMM 3380 - Communicating in Groups
- COMM 3390 - Persuasion
- COMM 4210 - Family Communication
- COMM 4317 - Rhetoric of Diversity & Identity
- COMM 4350 - Organizational COmmunication
- COMM 4366 - Communication Ethics
- COMM 4377 - Health Communication
- ENGL 3270 - Literature of Popular Culture
- ENGL 3280 - Mythology
- ENGL 3650 - American Folklore
- ENGL 4217 - Irish/Scottish Literature
- ENGL 4700 - Chaucer & Medieval Literature