COMM at Wheaton College (Illinois)

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate COMM coursework.

• COMM 111Fundamentals of Communicationopens 5 courses (5 directly)
• COMM 215Journalismopens 2 courses (2 directly)
• COMM 241Media Studiesopens 2 courses (1 directly)
• COMM 101Public Speakingopens 1 course (1 directly)
• COMM 246Media Productionopens 1 course (1 directly)
• COMM 345Narrative Mediaopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate COMM work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 19 COMM and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 19 more COMM courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in COMM. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 301

  1. COMM 111Fundamentals of Communication
  2. COMM 301Communication Theory

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 344

  1. COMM 241Media Studies
  2. COMM 344Visual Symbolism: Icons, Brands, Logos

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 353

  1. COMM 101Public Speaking
  2. COMM 353Advanced Persuasive Speaking

• 2 courses deep, ending at COMM 415

  1. COMM 215Journalism
  2. COMM 415Special Topics in Journalism

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for COMM yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under COMM yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

COMM does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Wheaton (IL) campus feed.