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> We are trying to establish an interdisciplinary major in
> Culture and Communication at Brown with courses from
> speech communication and anthropology.  Can anyone
> help me with a set of requirements for a similar
> program elsewhere for comparison.  Our majors
> (called concentrations) consist of 8 to 10
> one semester courses.
> Thanks!
>

You don't say, but I presume you are talking about an
undergraduate program.  At the University of Calgary we have an
interdisciplinary major in Communications Studies that sounds
somewhat like the one you are proposing.  Here's how it works:

Students are majors in the Faculty of General Studies, which
means that they must take certain requirements common to all GNST
majors.  These include two fairly massive courses on the history
of western thought, two full-ciurse equivalents in a non-western
world area, a breadth requirement, a computer requirement, etc
etc.  The communications core consists of the following
one-semester courses

COMS 361: Fundamentals of Communication  (basic theories of
speaking and writing, a more or less practical rhetoric course
with a classical rhetoric packground

COMS391: Communications Methodology

COMS 461: A history of rhetorical theory from Aristotle to Burke

COMS 461: Theories of Communication (some of the classical
quantitative approaches, semiotics, the founding father stuff,
etc)

COMS 471:  History of Communication, cave painting to the
microchip, with McLuhan and Walter Ong as philsophical guides

COMS 561:  Senior Seminar

That does not do a lot with the cultural studies stuff that you
are also suggesting, but it outlines the bones of a
communications program with a blend of speech communication and
social science angles.

Hope that helps.

Doug Brent, University of Calgary
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