<p>I am currently an undeclared major at UCLA. However, if I chose to be a premajor in Communication Studies, and took courses at a community college that would satisfy premajor requirements for Communication Studies (such as COMM ST 1) would that be possible? </p>
<p>I understand that Communication Studies is a very competitive major at UCLA. Would you say it is advantageous or disadvantageous to take courses from community college when applying for the major?</p>
<p>The reason why I am asking this is because as an undeclared major, I am interested MANY different majors and minors that all require numerous premajor or preminor requirements. Most of the majors I am interested in require an application of some sort (ie. Communication Studies, Business Economics, Economics, etc). I figured it would be easier for me to take some of these premajor courses during the summer so that my schedule would be less hectic during the academic year at UCLA.</p>
<p>Thanks! </p>
<p>I may be unqualified to answer your questions as I am a South Campus major but I would imagine if you need to apply for admission to the major you’d want to make yourself as competitive as possible and that would be through doing as well as possible in classes taken at UCLA (if you were a transfer student it would be a different story). According to this page (<a href=“http://www.commstudies.ucla.edu/openadmin”>http://www.commstudies.ucla.edu/openadmin</a>) you only need to have finished 2 of the required courses before applying (the more the better), and it looks like the essay questions and creative work are huge components. If you have other interests as well then maybe you could take required courses that overlap with the other fields (i.e. Stats 10, Econ 1) as you decide whether communication studies is what you really want to pursue, but since Comm St 1 and 10 are offered over summer you might want to take at least 1 of these to get a feel for the discipline. It also appears there is not a Comm Studies minor. If it’s what you really want I would say go big or go home and make sure to have a backup plan </p>