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/School | Dept | Course Number | Course Name | Credits | Area of Knowledge | Notes |
| College of Arts & Sciences | AAS | 220 | Asian American Stereotypes in the Media | 5 | I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 203 | Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with LING 203 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 209 | Anthropology through Visual Media | 5 | VLPA/I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 403 | Qualitative Research Methods in Sociocultural Anthropology | 5 | I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 432 | Sociolinguistics I | 5 | VLPA/I&S, DIV | Prerequisite: either LING 200 or LING 400; Jointly offered with LING 432 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ANTH | 433 | Sociolinguistics II | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Prerequisite: LING 432; Jointly offered with LING 433 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NW, QSR | 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 | I&S, QSR | Jointly offered with STAT 320 and SOC 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | I&S, QSR | Jointly offered with SOC 321 and STAT 321 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CS&SS | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | I&S, QSR | Jointly offered with SOC 322 and STAT 322 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CMS | 302 | Media Arts and Cultures | 5 | VLPA | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | CMS | 315 | History of New Media | 5 | VLPA | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 204 | Popular Fiction and Media | 5 | VLPA | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 206 | Rhetoric in Everyday Life | 5 | VLPA | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 266 | Literature and Technology | 5 | VLPA | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ENGL | 382 | Special Topics in Multimodal Composition | 5 | C | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | FRENCH | 224 | Culture and Media Forms | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | HSTEU | 290 | Culture and Media Forms | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224/TXTDS 224 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | ITAL | 355 | Culture, Politics, and Media in Italy | 5 | VLPA/I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS A | 224 | Culture and Media Forms | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with FRENCH 224/TXTDS 224/HSTEU 290 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS B | 307 | Digital Storytelling and Global Citizenship | 5 | I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | JSIS B | 361 | The Rise of a Global Language | 5 | I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 203 | Introduction to Anthropological Linguistics | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with ANTH 203 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 432 | Sociolinguistics I | 5 | VLPA/I&S, DIV | Jointly offered with ANTH 432 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | LING | 433 | Sociolinguistics II | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with ANTH 433 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NW, QSR | Students may receive credit for only one of STAT 220, STAT 221, STAT 311, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, ECON 311. Jointly offered with CS&SS 221 and SOC 221 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 250 | Media and Society | 5 | I&S | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 320 | Evaluating Social Science Evidence | 5 | I&S, QSR | Jointly offered with CS&SS 320 and SOC 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | Jointly offered with STAT 321 and CS&SS 321 | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | SOC | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | Jointly offered with STAT 322 and CS&SS 322 | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 220 | Principles of Statistical Reasoning | 5 | NW, QSR | Students may receive credit for only one of STAT 220, STAT 221, STAT 311, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, ECON 311. |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 221 | Statistical Concepts and Methods for the Social Sciences | 5 | NW, QSR | Students may receive credit for only one of STAT 220, STAT 221, STAT 311, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, ECON 311. Jointly offered with CS&SS 221 and SOC 221 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 311 | Elements of Statistical Methods | 5 | NW, QSR | Students may receive credit for only one of STAT 220, STAT 221, STAT 311, STAT 221/CS&SS 221/SOC 221, ECON 311. |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 320 | Evaluating Social Science Evidence | 5 | I&S, QSR | Jointly offered with CS&SS 320 and SOC 320 |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 321 | Data Science and Statistics for Social Sciences I | 5 | Jointly offered with SOC 321 and CS&SS 321 | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | STAT | 322 | Case-Based Social Statistics II | 5 | Jointly offered with SOC 322 and CS&SS 322 | |
| College of Arts & Sciences | TXTDS | 224 | Culture and Media Forms | 5 | VLPA/I&S | Jointly offered with FRENCH 224/JSIS A 224/HSTEU 290 |
| 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 | I&S, DIV | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 350 | Information Ethics and Policy | 5 | I&S | |
| School of Informatics | INFO | 386 | Professionalism in Informatics | 4 | ||
| School of Informatics | INFO | 402 | Gender, Race, and Information Technology | 4 | I&S, 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 | 4 | ||
| School of Public Health | ENV H | 205 | Environmental Health in Media | 3 | I&S | |
| 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 |