BA/BS in Public Relations, Advertising, and Applied Communication

Public relations majors must apply to enter the program once they have met preparatory requirements. These include a media foundations course, a first-level public relations class and a second-level public relations course, each completed with a grade of C or better, along with thirty hours of degree-applicable credit. Applicants write an essay of about three hundred words describing how they plan to add to the field and what their career goals are. Transfer students must first put in a term at Auburn. Students who began before fall 2023 follow slightly different foundation course rules. The major is offered by the communication and journalism department in the college of liberal arts. First-year students typically take English composition, core history and a core social science, which prepares them for upper-level strategy and writing courses.