Organizational Communication probes communication issues posed by the challenges facing 21st-century profit and non-profit organizations: management issues, changes created by technological innovation, communication training, and team collaboration and decision-making. Our undergraduate courses in this specialty provide advanced training to those who seek the Master’s as either a destination degree or as a stepping-stone to doctoral organizational, technological, or small group communication studies.
Faculty
Undergraduate Courses
- Commun 105 – Business and Professional Communication
- Commun 300 – Interviewers and Interviewing
- Commun 310 – Communication in Organizations
- Commun 311 – Leadership Communication
- Commun 313 – Human Communication and Technology
- Commun 323 – Communication in Groups and Teams
- Commun 363 – Conflict in Human Communication
- Commun 365 – Negotiation Skills Workshop
- Commun 402 – Gender and Communication
- Commun 410 – Organizational Communication Technology
- Commun 520 – Negotiation Skills Workshop
- Commun 655 – Cultural Training and Adjustment
- Commun 665 – Introduction to Mediation
- Commun 698 – Communication Internship
Graduate Courses
- Commun 710 – Managerial Communication
- Commun 772 – Rhetorical Leadership and Ethics
- Commun 803 – Gender and Communication
- Commun 810 – Studies of Communication in Organizations
- Commun 812 – Communication Policy for Organizations
- Commun 813 – Seminar in Mediated Communication
- Commun 823 – Seminar in Small Group Communication
- Commun 860 – Seminar: Issues in Communication (Technology, Group, or Organizational Themes)
- Commun 862 – Public Deliberation
- Commun 864 – Communication & Social Influence
- Commun 913 – Advanced Topics in Group Communication (3 credits; repeatable up to 9 credits with change of topic)
- Commun 950 – Theory Building in Communication and Culture
- Commun 998 – Internship (1-3 credits; repeatable up to 3 credits)