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Program Description
This program can help you improve internal and external communication in the context of your current position or prepare you to move into a new career as a communications professional. Because the curriculum focuses on research-based skills that go beyond mere technical expertise with presentation software, the practical insights presented in this program will hold their value throughout your career.
What is Organizational Communication?
In today's complex world of information and knowledge, organizations large and small increasingly recognize that effective communication is an essential ingredient for success. The certificate program in organizational communication is designed to help you make practical improvements in this critical area in order to make communication with peers, supervisors, customers and other stakeholders as efficient and effective as possible. This program can help you improve internal and external communication in the context of your current position or prepare you to move into a new career as a communications professional. Because the curriculum focuses on research-based skills that go beyond mere technical expertise with presentation software, the practical insights presented in this program will hold their value throughout your career.
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You want to learn to improve internal and external communications in the context of your current position, or to prepare you to move into a new career as a communications professional.
Program Requirements
To earn an undergraduate certificate in Organizational Communication, a minimum of 12 credits is required.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Prescribed Courses | ||
| CAS 283 | Communication and Information Technology I  | 3 |
| CAS 352 | Organizational Communication | 3 |
| Select 6 credits of the following: | 6 | |
| Conflict Resolution and Negotiation | ||
| Organizational Communication Theory and Research | ||
| Studies in Public Address | ||
| Advanced Business Writing | ||
No Prerequisites Required.
Certificate Learning Objectives
- Breadth of application across different communication contexts: Demonstrate relevance of program to a range of majors
- Organizational communication theory and research: Mastery of the theory and methods taught in the certificate program's core courses
- Professional relevance: Program applies communication concepts, principles, theories, and perspectives to a variety of organizational contexts in a way that is relevant and meaningful to PSU students
Academic Advising
The objectives of the university's academic advising program are to help advisees identify and achieve their academic goals, to promote their intellectual discovery, and to encourage students to take advantage of both in-and out-of class educational opportunities in order that they become self-directed learners and decision makers.
Both advisers and advisees share responsibility for making the advising relationship succeed. By encouraging their advisees to become engaged in their education, to meet their educational goals, and to develop the habit of learning, advisers assume a significant educational role. The advisee's unit of enrollment will provide each advisee with a primary academic adviser, the information needed to plan the chosen program of study, and referrals to other specialized resources.
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University Park
Liberal Arts Academic Advising
814-865-2545
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World Campus
Undergraduate Academic Advising
100 Innovation Blvd
Suite 225
University Park, PA 16803
814-863-3283
advising@worldcampus.psu.edu
Career Paths
The certificate program in organizational communication is designed to help you make practical improvements in this critical area in order to make communication with peers, supervisors, customers and other stakeholders as efficient and effective as possible. This program can help you improve internal and external communication in the context of your current position or prepare you to move into a new career as a communications professional.
Contact
University Park
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION ARTS AND SCIENCES
234 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-3461
mdl20@psu.edu
World Campus
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION ARTS AND SCIENCES
234 Sparks Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-865-3461
mdl20@psu.edu