ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION (Major, Minor)
Organizational Communication is the study of the exchange and interpretation of information between and within organizations. Communication is important to both organizations and to the people in them because human communication fuels the organization and because an individual’s ability to succeed in the workplace is determined largely by communication skills. The Organizational Communication major is designed to prepare students to communicate more effectively in the organizational environment. Thirteen courses are required for the major.
Requirements for the Major (13)
Core Courses (8)
COM 110 Public Speaking
COM 220 Interpersonal Communication
COM 300 Communication Theory
COM 303 Communication Ethics
COM 305 Listening Theory
COM 395 Communication Research
COM 421 Organizational Communication
COM 480 Seminar in Organizational Communication
Elective Courses (Select 5):
Five elective courses in Organizational Communication
Requirements for the Minor (8)
The minor in Organizational Communication consists of the following courses: COM 110, COM 220, COM 300, COM 421 and any four elective courses in Organizational Communication.
Course Descriptions:
COM 110 Public Speaking
Explains research, organization, writing, delivery, and critical analysis of oral presentations with attention to individual needs.
COM 220 Interpersonal Communication
Explores one-on-one communication with significant others in personal and career situations.
COM 300 Communication Theory
Provides various explanations of the process by which senders and receivers of messages interact in social and organizational contexts.
COM 301 Designing Effective Organizations
The study of organizational design and its impact on the efficiency and effectiveness of modern organizations. Students will explore and discuss issues such as strategic planning and management, organizational effectiveness, power and politics, organizational culture and communication, and the designing of organizations for the information age.
COM 302 Interviewing
The study of interviewing as a procedure applied in various ways by professionals in work situations. Dyadic encounters will emphasize the structure and process of different types of interviewing methods.
COM 303 Communication Ethics
Challenges students preparing for professional and business careers to make moral choices and develop questions when confronted by ethical dilemmas in real-life case studies.
COM 305 Listening
The study of the art of listening and its importance in our personal and professional lives. Students learn to analyze, assess, and improve their own listening abilities.
COM 306 Intercultural Communication
Examines concepts/constructs, theories, and empirical research pertinent to communication within and between cultures, with primary foci on contexts and relationships.
COM 312 Persuasion
Explores influencing human behavior in socially acceptable ways. Looks into persuasion strategies from attitude change to audience analysis.
COM 314 Communication and the Media
An evaluation of media relations in contemporary organizations, both government and private. This course will focus on ways the media influences and is influenced by these groups.
COM 315 Topics in Organizational Communication
Study of selected areas of organizational communication taught in seminar fashion designed to promote maximum interaction between students and the instructor. Topics for consideration are at the discretion of the instructor and will change with each course offering. This course may be repeated for general credit but can fulfill the requirements of the major one time.
COM 316 Training and Development
Focuses on the role of communication in the training and development of human resources. Topics will include: the role of training and development; identifying training needs; adult learning theory; instructional design; training evaluation; and approaches to work-force development. Case analysis and work in small groups will be used extensively. Offered on credit/no credit basis only.
COM 318 Public Relations
The study of public relations principles applied to organizations. This course examines the ways in which public relations theories and principles are applied to specific business situations.
COM 319 Leadership and Effective Communication
The study of leadership, leadership styles, and leadership effectiveness in organizations. Students explore the connection between leadership and organizational communication.
COM 321 Small Groups and Leadership
Examines communication, leadership, participation, and decision making within groups and teams.
COM 322 Computer Mediated Communication
Study of the fundamental changes in human communication processes brought about by our interactions with technologies such as video conferencing, email, real time chat, Internet and intranet technologies, personal digital assistants, wireless devices, and electronic books. The computer and other communication technologies act as intermediaries in new communication processes, and students will analyze the benefits and challenges they create for effective human communication.
COM 324 Self-Leadership and Communication
This course explores the many ways that self-leadership skills may be enhanced through effective communication principles, strategies and techniques. Topics to be discussed include rebuilding personal infrastructures, establishing high standards and wide boundaries, eliminating tolerations in life, competing with the past, developing reserves, making the present perfect, becoming a problem-free zone, and much more. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only.
COM 325 Communication Campaigns
Communication campaigns are focused, large-scale efforts to exert social influence. This course deals with the planning, organizing, implementation, and evaluation of various educational, political, religious, and commercial campaigns. Students will analyze both classic and current communication campaigns.
COM 340 Organizational Law
Examines the law on national and local levels, focusing on the relationship between effective communication and legal problems.
COM 350 Communication Presentations
The identification of communication opportunities encountered in professional situations. This course analyzes communication objectives and emphasizes the preparation of oral presentations. (Formerly Business and Professional Presentations.)
COM 395 Communication Research
The investigation of qualitative and quantitative communication research focusing on its practices, ethics, and consequences.
COM 415 Topics in Organizational Communication
Study of selected areas of organizational communication taught in seminar fashion designed to promote maximum interaction between students and the instructor. Topics for consideration are at the discretion of the instructor and will change with each course offering. This course may be repeated for general credit but can fulfill the requirements of the major one time.
COM 418 Advanced Public Relations
The advanced study of the discipline of public relations. Students learn the basic communication theories and professional practices necessary in a wide range of roles from publicity to promotion to public information, counseling and management. Students develop skills in written and oral communication, critical thinking, problem solving, research, and strategic planning. Prerequisite: COM 318 or consent.
COM 421 Organizational Communication
The analysis of the role and importance of communication in organizations with special emphasis on corporations, not-for-profit institutions, government agencies, and other structures in which people work. The focus of the course is rooted in theories of organizational communication with applications to contemporary situations. Students must have access to a computer with Internet capabilities, and be familiar with using the Web for searching and sending e-mail with attachments. Advisor approval.
COM 440 Death and Dying
An examination of the legal and ethical issues in the practice of withholding treatment from terminally ill patients, the “Baby Jane Doe” cases, the concept of “mercy killing,” active Euthanasia, suicide, capital punishment and the implications of surviving death. In addition to case studies and professor’s lectures, guest lecturers from various related disciplines and survivors of the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and recent terrorist activities will meet in workshop sessions with the class.
COM 480 Senior Seminar in Organizational Communication
Advanced study of the theory and application of organizational communication. This capstone course, taken in the student's senior year, provides an end-of-the-major opportunity to conceptualize and understand organizational communication and the organizational communication program through the use of various instructional modules, team teaching, outside expert speakers, and program evaluation methods. Prerequisite: senior status and major in Organizational Communication.
INT 340 Great Trials of the Century
A study of the cases that made headlines and influenced our lives in the twentieth century: the Lindbergh Kidnapping, the Rosenburg Spy Case, the Leopold-Loeb Murder trial, the trials of Dr. Spock, Father Berrigan, and the famous “Chicago Seven”, the McCarthy hearings, the Nuremberg Trials, the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the trial of Lee Harvey Oswald for the murder of President Kennedy, the trial of Sirhan for the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the “Anarchy” trials of Sacco and Vanzetti, and a host of other famous cases. Prerequisite: at least one course in sociology, politics, history, or consent.
Last Update: September 11, 2008
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