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Curriculum
The Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Sports Media & Communications requires the following:
- 120 total credit hours,
- At least 30 credits must be in courses numbered 300 or above,
- 40 credits of Gen Ed courses with university-mandated guidelines,
- A minimum of 36 credits (maximum 48) within the major; among those 36 will include:
- A six-credit writing prescription: WRT104/WRT235 or JOR115/JOR220,
- SMC100, SMC101, SMC201 and SMC203,
- SMC400 and SMC495,
- Four electives (Students work with their academic advisors to customize their individual curriculum based on interests and curiosities),
- Minimum 2.0 grade-point average.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completing the curriculum and earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sports Media and Communication from the University of Rhode Island, students will graduate with the following knowledge, skills and aptitudes:
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- communicate ideas effectively in written, oral, and visual form to a variety of sport audiences;
- identify, understand and effectively use production tools in order to create, design and produce professional media content, research, and portfolio projects;
- recognize the role of media in reproducing/challenging cultural and social meanings and disparities within the context of sport;
- analyze how sport media are constructed as texts and understand the cultural, historical, and political contexts in which they are created and consumed;
- understand and assess sport institutions, audiences, consumers, and media producers.
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Contact Sports Media and Communication
Davis Hall Rm 204
10 Lippitt Rd
Kingston, RI 02881
Molly Yanity
Director of Sports Media and Communication
Molly.Yanity@uri.edu
