Advertising

Block 1: Required courses for all students  (''s spot)
 
 

* ADV 3000 Elements of Advertising

3

ADV  3001 Advertising Strategy.

3

ADV  3203 Introduction to Advertising 
          Design and Graphics


3

ADV  3501 Advertising Research

3

ADV  4101 Copywriting and Visualization

3

ADV  4300 Media Planning.

3

ADV  4800 Advertising Campaigns.

3

MMC 4200 Law of Mass Communication.

3

* MAR 3023 Principles of Marketing

4

* STA  2023 or STA 2122 Statistics

3

Block 2: Electives (10 hours required)
 
 
 

ADV 3502 Advertising Sales.

2

ADV  4102 Advanced Copywriting 

3

ADV  4200 Advertising Graphics and Production 

3

ADV  4400 International Advertising

3

ADV 4401 Direct Response Advertising
         and Sales Promotion Writing


3

ADV  4700 Retail Advertising 

3

ADV 4905 Individual Problems .

1-3

ADV  4930 Special Study in Advertising

2-3

ADV  4931 Seminar: Ethics and Problems in Advertising

2

ADV  4940 Advertising Internship.

1-3

ADV  6305 Advanced Media Planning

3

ADV  6503 Advertising Creative Strategy.

3

ADV 6602 Advertising/Public Relations Management

3

PUR 3000 Introduction to Public Relations.

3

RTV  3000 Introduction to Telecommunication.

3

RTV  3200 Fundamentals of Production

3

Any professional work beyond 34 credit hours must be added to the 124 hours required for gradua-tion, unless a student has earned 90 credit hours of non-college work.

*Grade of C or higher is required for the major.
 
 Advertising Curriculum

Bachelor of Science in Advertising.

Critical tracking courses are bold. These courses may be taken in any order in semesters 1-4.
 
 

FRESHMAN YEAR

Semester 1 - Fall

Credits

* ENC 1101 Composition (GE).

3

POS 2112 or PSY 2013 Social Science (GE)

3

Physical or Biological Science (GE).

3

* MGF 1201 Concepts of Mathematics (GE-M)

3

AMH 2010 U.S. Until 1877 (GE-H)

3

Total

15

Critical Tracking Criteria:
    • Minimum 2.25 GPA
 
 
 

Semester 2 - Spring

Credits

SPC 2600 or ORI 3000 Public Speaking.

3

POS 2041 American Federal Govt. (GE-S).

3

Physical or Biological Science (GE).

3

* AML, ENL, LIT Humanities

3

AMH 2020 U.S. Since 1877 (GE-H).

3

Total

15

Critical Tracking Criteria:
    • Complete two tracking courses
    • Minimum 2.5 GPA
 
 
 

SOPHOMORE YEAR

Semester 3 - Fall

Credits

Foreign Language or Quantitative option.

3-5

* STA 2023 or 2122 Statistics (GE-M).

3

* AML, ENL, LIT Humanities (GE).

3

* MMC  2100 Writing for Mass Communication.

3

Elective

3

Total

15-17

Critical Tracking Criteria:
    • Complete one additional tracking course
    • Minimum 2.5 GPA
 
 
 

Semester 4 - Spring

Credits

Foreign Language or Quantitative option.

3-5

ECO 2013 or 2023 Macroeconomics/
         Microeconomics (GE-S) 


3

ADV 3000 Elements of Advertising

3

Professional Electives.

6

Total

15-17

Critical Tracking Criteria:
    • Complete two additional tracking courses
    • Minimum 2.5 GPA

* C or better required in these courses
 
 
 

JUNIOR YEAR

Semester 5 - Fall

Credits

ADV 3001 Advertising Strategy

3

ADV 3203 Introduction to Advertising
         Design and Graphics.


3

*MAR 3023 Principles of Marketing 

4

Outside Concentration

3

Elective outside College

3

Total

16

Critical Tracking Criteria:
• All critical tracking courses complete
• Minimum 2.5 overall GPA
 
 
 

Semester 6 - Spring 

Credits

ADV 3501 Advertising Research Techniques. 

3

Advertising Elective

3

Outside Concentration

3

Elective outside JM College

6

Total

15

 

 

 

 

 

SENIOR YEAR

Semester 7 - Fall

Credits

ADV 4101 Copywriting and Visualization.

3

ADV 4300 Media Planning

3

Outside Concentration.

6

Professional Electives (within adv. major)

3

Total

15

 

 

 

 

Semester 8 - Spring 

Credits

ADV 4800 Advertising Campaigns

3

MMC 4200 Law of Mass Communication.

3

Outside Concentration

3

Professional Elective (within adv. major) 

2

Elective outside JM College.

3-4

Total

14-15

* Minimum grade of C required.