Communication Studies: Journalism (Transfer)

Associate of Arts Degree Program (Transfer)

The Communication Studies:Journalism courses at UCC offer award winning degree preparation with exciting hands-on media training for students interested in journalism or other communication career options. Our classes are not just for reporters, however! Courses such as Writing for the Media, Introduction to Mass Communication, Journalism Production, Photography, Public Relations, and Business Communication prepare students to become the vital communicators and advocates needed today in service-providing industries such as advertising, health care, social assistance, education, and government. In fact, the National Association of Colleges and Employers recently listed "communications skills (verbal and written)" as the number one skill sought by the nearly 2,000 employers that they surveyed.

UCC students work one-on-one with qualified instructors in hands-on learning environments that promote advanced development of oral and written communication skills. Students also develop important technical skills in industry software and learn vital production processes while building social skills and creating new friends!

Students can transfer from UCC to many different Oregon universities to continue their journalism and communication-related studies in a variety of majors:

• Journalism (UO, NCC, Corban College)
• Human Communications (SOU)
• Communications Studies (OIT)
• Communication Arts (George Fox)
• Communications: Speech, Drama, Journalism, or Media (Marylhurst)
• Communication* (UOP, Linfield, PSU, Cascade, Lewis & Clark)
• Organizational Communication: Public Relations or Human Resources (UOP)
• Management Communication (NCC)
• Speech Communication (NCC, Corban College, OSU, WOU)
• Rhetoric and Media Studies (WU)*

*Several of these colleges offer further specialization within the field of Communications. For a current list of majors offered by Oregon universities, please see each individual university’s website.

For more information contact:
Melinda Benton
(541)440-4645
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Suggested Transfer Guide

As many terms of J215/Journalism Production as possible are recommended; see transfer institution for the number of J215 credits which will transfer.

The Physical Science sequence is recommended for journalists. Any science with a lab may be substituted for students working to earn the AAOT.

The UO requires 16 literature credits/hours; since UCC's classes are 3 credits each, this means that 6 courses (18 credits total) will be needed.

The UO requires 8 credits/hours in history; since UCC's classes are 3 credits each, this means 3 courses (9 credits total) will be needed. UCC recommends U.S. History for journalists, but other history classes can be substituted.

SOU requires that transfer students complete three upper division university studies integration courses at SOU in addition to the AAOT.

WOU requires J211 Intro to Mass Communication.

EOU requires Art History and Beginning Photography.