Feb 02, 2025  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Advertising and Public Relations (BA) Academic Degree Map

Location(s): Manhattan Campus


First Year Hours K-State Core  
Semester 1      
MC 100 - JMC Orientation 0    
Orientation course 1    
ENGL 100 - Expository Writing I 3 KSC 010  
Math & Statistics Requirement 3 KSC 030  
Social & Behavior Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Social & Behavior Requirement 5    
MC 191 - 197 Content Creator Studio      
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 2      
MC 180 - Principles of Public Relations 3    
MC 130 - Writing Conventions and Mechanics 1    
MC 131 - Elements of Media Writing 1    
MC 132 - Writing Styles and Audiences 1    
ENGL 200 - Expository Writing II 3 KSC 010  
Natural & Physical Science Requirement 3 KSC 040  
Social & Behavior Requirement 3 KSC 050  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 3 Optional      
       
Second Year      
Semester 1      
MC 280 - Writing for Advertising & Public Relations 3    
BA Outside Concentration      
Communication Requirement 3 KSC 020  
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
MC Specialization course      
BA Arts, Humanities & Social Science Requirement      
BA Second Language Requirement       
Arts & Humanities Requirement 3 KSC 060  
Free Elective {Institutionally Designated Area} 3 KSC 070  
Total Credits: 16      
       
Semester 3 OPTIONAL      
       
Third Year      
Semester 1      
MC 396 - Research for Advertising and Public Relations 3    
BA Arts, Humanities, and Social Science Requirement      
BA Natural & Quantitative Requirement      
BA Outside Concentration      
BA Second Language Requirement      
       
Semester 2      
MC 466 - Media Law and Ethics 3    
Ethical Reasoning Overlay 3    
BA Natural & Quantitative Requirement      
BA Second Language Requirement      
MC Specialization Course      
COMM 470 - Building Social and Cultural Connections 3    
US Multicultural Overlay OR      
MC 612 - Diversity in Media 3    
US Multicultural Overlay 3    
Total Credits: 15 3    
       
Semester 3 OPTIONAL      
       
Fourth Year      
Semester 1      
MC 482 - Ideation, Strategy, and Planning Advertising & Public Relations      
MC 491 - Mass Communication Internship 1-3    
MC Specialization course      
BA Non - Quantitative Social Science      
BA Second Language Requirement      
Total Credits: 15      
       
Semester 2      
MC 581 - Campaigns in Advertising and Public Relations      
MC Elective course      
A&S Global Perspective Overlay      
BA Outside Concentration      
Total Credits: 12      
       
Semester 3 OPTIONAL      
       
Total Programs Hours: 120