question about communications pre-req

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For those of you who applied/plan to apply for pharmacy schools in California, do you have to take two different communications classes? It looks like USC requires interpersonal communications class and UCSD/UCSF/Western/UOP requires public speaking class. I check their website and the equivalent class for my school and they are two different classes. Anyone else has this problem? 😕
 
That makes sense. Those are two totally different types of communication. The schools probably want different things.

- Interpersonal communication occurs between two people at a distance between 18-48 inches. Communication that occurs beyond four feet is considered public speaking 😛 (I'm feeling extra nerdy today :laugh:)
 
confident said:
For those of you who applied/plan to apply for pharmacy schools in California, do you have to take two different communications classes? It looks like USC requires interpersonal communications class and UCSD/UCSF/Western/UOP requires public speaking class. I check their website and the equivalent class for my school and they are two different classes. Anyone else has this problem? 😕
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Yeah - there are 2 different classes, that's just how it is.
 
USC confirmed to me that they will not accept Public Speaking for their CMN requirement.. however I think a couple of those other CA schools MAY take Interpersonal CMN in place of Public Speaking.. best to confirm with the school.

They really are two different classes though, and I was convinced Interpersonal would be useless, but my professor did a full lecture on job interviews (which can be applied to pharm school interviews!) so it wasn't a complete loss. I took public speaking over the summer and it wasn't nearly as painful as a full quarter during the school year. 🙂
 
I had to take both. Schools that require public speaking do not take interpersonal, and USC definitely does NOT take public speaking.
 
I just checked the USC websites and it looks like they changed their requirements for communications and accepts public speaking as well as interpersonal communications. :laugh: one less class to worry about! 👍
 
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