University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus

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BA Strategic Communication: Advertising and Public Relations at University of Minnesota Twin Cities

University of Minnesota Twin Cities, United States

Programme overview

This Strategic Communication: Advertising and Public Relations major prepares students for careers in advertising, public relations, and corporate, non-profit, political, and health communication fields. Students develop the tools that are essential to public relations and advertising careers and learn to craft messages and campaigns about products, brands, companies, organizations, services, and information across multiple media platforms.

Faculty: College of Liberal Arts  |  Duration: 4 years / 120 credits  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Location: Minneapolis, MN, United States

What you will study

Required components: Core Course, Principles of Strategic Communication, Professional Skills Courses, Context Courses, Capstone, Upper Division Writing Intensive within the major, Required Prerequisites. Collegiate Requirements: All CLA BA degrees require 18 upper-division (3xxx-level or higher) credits outside the major designator. These credits must be taken in designators different from the major designator and cannot include courses that are cross-listed with the major designator.

Career pathways

This Strategic Communication: Advertising and Public Relations major prepares students for careers in advertising, public relations, and corporate, non-profit, political, and health communication fields. Students develop the tools that are essential to public relations and advertising careers and learn to craft messages and campaigns about products, brands, companies, organizations, services, and information across multiple media platforms.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Students must apply to the major. To apply, students must have completed, or be enrolled in, JOUR 1001 and have completed at least 14 graded credits (A-F). Students write answers to application questions that provide information about academic interests, professional goals, and mass communication or related experience, if any; the responses function as a writing sample for the Admissions Committee. The Admissions Committee is looking for a GPA of 3.0 or higher but will consider a GPA below 3.0 if grades have shown recent improvement.

Duration: 4 years / 120 credits

Apply through the official page: https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/

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