The following courses are offered outside the Department of Communication and are allowed to be used towards the Communication major. Students are allowed up to 10 credits from the following list to be counted towards COM major credit. You do not need to take any courses from the list below. This list is only if you wish to take courses outside of the Department for COM credit.
The COM Elective requirement for the Communication major allows any COM course to count towards COM Electives that is not already counting towards another major requirement. This includes COM-prefix courses and courses in the list below. All courses below will count towards COM Electives and/or Upper Division.
All registration is done with the understanding that courses may have restrictions and/or prerequisites. Do not contact host department for add codes, exceptions, and/or overloads. There will be no exceptions made due to the course being on this list. Students must follow all guidelines when registering. Course availability subject to change. Please refer to the UW Time Schedule for accurate availability.
Please refer any questions to the UW Department of Communication Commons and Advising Office at comadv@uw.edu.
| College/School | Dept | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | AOI | Notes |
| College of Arts & Sciences | AAS | 220 | Asian American Stereotypes in the Media | 5 | SSc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 203 | Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics | 5 | A&H, SSc | Jointly offered with LING 203 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 209 | Anthropology through Visual Media | 5 | A&H, SSc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 403 | Qualitative Research Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology | 5 | SS | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 432 | Sociolinguistics I | 5 | A&H, SS, DIV | Prerequisite: either LING 200 or LING 400; Jointly offered with LING 432 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 433 | Sociolinguistics II | 5 | A&H, SSc | Prerequisite: LING 432; Jointly offered with LING 433 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NSc, RSN | Students may receive credit for only one of STAT 220, STAT 221, STAT 311, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, ECON 311. Offered jointly with SOC 221/STAT 221. |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 320 | Evaluating Social Science Evidence | 5 | NSc, RSN | Jointly offered with STAT 320 and SOC 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | SSc, RSN | Jointly offered with SOC 321 and STAT 321 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | SSC, RSN | Jointly offered with SOC 322 and STAT 322 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CMS | 302 | Media Arts and Cultures | 5 | A&H | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CMS | 315 | History of New Media | 5 | A&H | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 204 | Popular Fiction and Media | 5 | A&H | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 206 | Rhetoric in Everyday Life | 5 | A&H | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 266 | Literature and Technology | 5 | A&H | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 382 | Special Topics in Multimodal Composition | 5 | C | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | FRENCH | 224 | Histories and Futures of The Book, Texts and Reading | 5 | A&H, SSc | Jointly offered with JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | HSTEU | 290 | Culture and Media Forms | 5 | A&H, SSc | Jointly offered with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ITAL | 355 | Culture, Politics, and Media in Italy | 5 | A&H, SSc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS A | 224 | Histories and Futures of the Book, Texts and Reading | 5 | AH, SSc | Jointly offered with FRENCH 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS B | 307 | Digital Storytelling and Global Citizenship | 5 | SSc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS B | 361 | The Rise of a Global Language | 5 | Ssc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 203 | Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics | 5 | A&H,SSc | Jointly offered with ANTH 203 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 432 | Sociolinguistics I | 5 | A&H, SSc, DIV | Jointly offered with ANTH 432 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 433 | Sociolinguistics II | 5 | A&H, SSc | Jointly offered with ANTH 433 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NSc, RSN | May only receive credit for one of STAT 220, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, or STAT 290. Offered: jointly with CS&SS 221/STAT 221; AWSp. |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 250 | Media and Society | 5 | SSc | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 320 | Evaluating Social Science Evidence | 5 | SSc, RSN | Offered: jointly with CS&SS 320/STAT 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | SSc, RSN | Offered: jointly with CS&SS 321/STAT 321; W |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | SSc, RSN | Offered: jointly with CS&SS 322/STAT 322. |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 220 | Principles of Statistical Reasoning | 5 | NSc, RSN | Students may receive credit for one of STAT 220, or STAT 221/CS&SSS 221/SOC 221, or STAT 290 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NSc, RSN | Student may only receive credit for one of STAT 220, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, or STAT 290. Offered jointly with CS&SS 221/SOC 221 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 311 | Elements of Statistical Methods | 5 | NSc, RSN | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 320 | Evaluating Social Science Evidence | 5 | SSc, RSN | Jointly offered with CS&SS 320 and SOC 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | SSc, RSN | Jointly offered with SOC 321 and CS&SS 321 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | SSc, RSN | Jointly offered with SOC 322 and CS&SS 322 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | TXTDS | 224 | Histories and Futures of the Book, Texts and Reading | 5 | A&H, SSc | Offered: jointly with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224 |
| Foster School of Business | MKTG | 450 | Consumer Behavior | 4 | ||
| College of Engineering | HCDE | 231 | Introduction to Communication in HCDE | 3 | Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration | |
| College of Engineering | HCDE | 301 | Advanced Communication in HCDE | 5 | Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration | |
| College of Engineering | HCDE | 322 | Organizational Teamwork | 2 | Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 102 | Gender and Information Technology | 5 | SSc, DIV | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 350 | Information Ethics and Policy | 5 | SSc | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 386 | Professionalism in Informatics | 4 | ||
| School of Informatics | INFO | 402 | Gender, Race, and Information Technology | 4 | SSc, DIV | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 498 | Special Topics in Informatics | 1-5, max. 15 | Credit for COM only for specific course topics. Please see COM adviser for approval. | |
| Evans School of Public Policy and Governance | PUBPOL | 403 | Professional Leadership | 5 | ||
| School of Public Health | ENV H | 205 | Environmental Health in Media | 3 | SSc | |
| School of Public Health | HSERV | 204 | Communicating about Health: Current Issues and Perspectives | 3 | ||
| School of Social Work | SOC WF | 215 | Intergroup Dialogues | 3 | DIV |