Why the catalog year matters
Your catalog year is the year you started at SDSU, and it decides which rules apply to your degree, not the current semester's course list. A class that is offered this term may not count toward your requirements, and one that counts for a newer catalog year may not be on an older list at all. Always check the requirements for your own catalog year, not the newest one.
18 Units Selected From
- COMM 421 - Health Communication and Community Based Service Learning
- COMM 422 - Politics of Health Communication
- COMM 423 - Patient-Provider Communication
- COMM 424 - Health Communication and Relationships
- COMM 425 - Theory and Research in Health Communication Campaigns
- COMM 426 - Communication in Health Risk and Crises
- COMM 427 - Health Communication and Cultural Communities
- COMM 428 - Communicating Health and Well-Being at Work
- COMM 485 - Communicating Leadership
- COMM 490 - Internship
- COMM 540 - Communicating Science in the Public Interest
Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement
Health Communication, B.S. (2025-2026) - Roadmap
No course list published for this category.
Major
- COMM 300 - Conceptualizing Communication
- COMM 321 - Introduction to Health Communication
- COMM 350 - Investigating Communication
- COMM 495 - Communication Capstone: Conceptualizing and Investigating Communication
- COMM 407 - Communicative Perspectives on Interviewing
- COMM 420 - Quantitative Methods in Communication
- COMM 441 - Foundations of Critical and Cultural Study
- COMM 462 - Ethnography and Communication
- COMM 465 - Conversational Interaction
Preparation for the Major
9 unitsThree Units May Also Be Selected from
- COMM 371 - Intercultural Communication
- COMM 415 - Nonverbal Communication
- COMM 445 - Relational Communication
- COMM 492 - Persuasion
- COMM 499 - Special Study
- COMM 555 - Conflict Management Communication
- GERO 360 - Diversity and Aging
- GERO 370 - Images of Aging in Contemporary Society
- HHS 350 - Applied International Health and Human Services: International Experience
- NURS 350 - Women's Health Across the Lifespan
- PHIL 330 - Biomedical Ethics
- P A 340 - Administrative Behavior
- P H 353 - Human Sexuality and Disease
- P H 362 - Global Health
- SWORK 430 - Alcohol and Other Drug Problems: Prevention and Intervention
This checklist reflects San Diego State's published catalog for 2025-26 and may not capture every substitution, waiver, or advisor-approved exception. Confirm anything that affects graduation with your own advisor or degree audit.