The following courses are offered outside the Department of Communication and are allowed to be used towards the Communication major.

Please note:

  • 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.
  • Students are allowed up to 10 credits from the following list to be counted towards COM major credit.
  • 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 MyPlan/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/SchoolDeptCourse NumberCourse NameCreditsAOINotes
College of Arts & SciencesAAS220Asian American Stereotypes in the Media5SSc
College of Arts & SciencesANTH203Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics5A&H, SScJointly offered with LING 203
College of Arts & SciencesANTH209Anthropology through Visual Media5A&H, SSc
College of Arts & SciencesANTH403Qualitative Research Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology5SS
College of Arts & SciencesANTH432Sociolinguistics I5A&H, SS, DIVPrerequisite: either LING 200 or LING 400; Jointly offered with LING 432
College of Arts & SciencesANTH433Sociolinguistics II5A&H, SScPrerequisite: LING 432; Jointly offered with LING 433
College of Arts & SciencesCS&SS221Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences5NSc, RSNStudents 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 & SciencesCS&SS320Evaluating Social Science Evidence5NSc, RSNJointly offered with STAT 320 and SOC 320
College of Arts & SciencesCS&SS321Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I5SSc, RSNJointly offered with SOC 321 and STAT 321
College of Arts & SciencesCS&SS322Case-Based Social Statistics II5SSC, RSNJointly offered with SOC 322 and STAT 322
College of Arts & SciencesCMS302Media Arts and Cultures5A&H
College of Arts & SciencesCMS315History of New Media5A&H
College of Arts & SciencesENGL204Popular Fiction and Media5A&H
College of Arts & SciencesENGL206Rhetoric in Everyday Life5A&H
College of Arts & SciencesENGL266Literature and Technology5A&H
College of Arts & SciencesENGL382Special Topics in Multimodal Composition5C
College of Arts & SciencesFRENCH224Histories and Futures of The Book, Texts and Reading5A&H, SScJointly offered with JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290
College of Arts & SciencesHSTEU290Culture and Media Forms5A&H, SScJointly offered with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224
College of Arts & SciencesITAL355Culture, Politics, and Media in Italy5A&H, SSc
College of Arts & SciencesJSIS A224Histories and Futures of the Book, Texts and Reading5AH, SScJointly offered with FRENCH 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290
College of Arts & SciencesJSIS B307Digital Storytelling and Global Citizenship5SSc
College of Arts & SciencesJSIS B361The Rise of a Global Language5Ssc
College of Arts & SciencesLING203Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics5A&H,SScJointly offered with ANTH 203
College of Arts & SciencesLING432Sociolinguistics I5A&H, SSc, DIVJointly offered with ANTH 432
College of Arts & SciencesLING433Sociolinguistics II5A&H, SScJointly offered with ANTH 433
College of Arts & SciencesSOC221Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences5NSc, RSNMay 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 & SciencesSOC250Media and Society5SSc
College of Arts & SciencesSOC320Evaluating Social Science Evidence5SSc, RSNOffered: jointly with CS&SS 320/STAT 320
College of Arts & SciencesSOC321Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I5SSc, RSNOffered: jointly with CS&SS 321/STAT 321; W
College of Arts & SciencesSOC322Case-Based Social Statistics II5SSc, RSNOffered: jointly with CS&SS 322/STAT 322.
College of Arts & SciencesSTAT220Principles of Statistical Reasoning5NSc, RSNStudents may receive credit for one of STAT 220, or STAT 221/CS&SSS 221/SOC 221, or STAT 290
College of Arts & SciencesSTAT221Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences5NSc, RSNStudent 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 & SciencesSTAT311Elements of Statistical Methods5NSc, RSN
College of Arts & SciencesSTAT320Evaluating Social Science Evidence5SSc, RSNJointly offered with CS&SS 320 and SOC 320
College of Arts & SciencesSTAT321Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I5SSc, RSNJointly offered with SOC 321 and CS&SS 321
College of Arts & SciencesSTAT322Case-Based Social Statistics II5SSc, RSNJointly offered with SOC 322 and CS&SS 322
College of Arts & SciencesTXTDS224Histories and Futures of the Book, Texts and Reading5A&H, SScOffered: jointly with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224
Foster School of BusinessMKTG450Consumer Behavior4
College of EngineeringHCDE231Introduction to Communication in HCDE3Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration
College of EngineeringHCDE301Advanced Communication in HCDE5Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration
College of EngineeringHCDE322Organizational Teamwork2Students outside of HCDE major must fill out form for approval: https://www.hcde.washington.edu/bs/non-major-registration
School of InformaticsINFO102Gender and Information Technology5SSc, DIV
School of InformaticsINFO350Information Ethics and Policy5SSc
School of InformaticsINFO386Professionalism in Informatics4
School of InformaticsINFO402Gender, Race, and Information Technology4SSc, DIV
School of InformaticsINFO498Special Topics in Informatics1-5, max. 15Credit for COM only for specific course topics. Please see COM adviser for approval.
Evans School of Public Policy and GovernancePUBPOL403Professional Leadership5
School of Public HealthENV H205Environmental Health in Media3SSc
School of Public HealthHSERV204Communicating about Health: Current Issues and Perspectives3
School of Social WorkSOC WF215Intergroup Dialogues3DIV