The organizational communication major prepares you to work in public or private, profit or nonprofit organizations in careers such as training, human resource management, sales or corporate communications. You learn strategic communication, methods to organize/evaluate information and solving communication problems within diverse organization contexts.
Program benefits
This major views the primary role of a manager to be strategic organizational communication. It also emphasizes managerial communication, which is the role of leadership, how to train employees, how to conduct an interview and how to work with and in small groups.
This major is the closest major to a business major in the School of Communication.
You will learn the following skills:
- Leadership
- Team dynamics
- Event planning
- Gender communication
- Intercultural communication
- Public relations
- Interviewing
- Persuasion
- Conflict management
- Consulting skills
- Organizational analysis
- Nonverbal communication
- Presentation skills
- Writing business reports
- Promotional writing
- Decision making
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication ethics
- Strategic communication technology
- Diversity management
- Organizational Theory
- Interpersonal Theory
- Communication research
Major requirements
Requirements for the organizational communication major prior to fall 2019: