Apr 19, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2020-21 [Archived Catalog]

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COMS 8260 - Communication, Innovation, and Organizational Change


Advanced seminar in organizational communication that focuses on the ways communication enables organizing around innovation and facilitates organizational change. Specifically, this course highlights communication between individual organizational members, in groups and teams, across organizational units, and between organizations and their communities.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories of innovation and change within organizational communication.
  • Evaluate research on group and organizational communication processes relevant to innovation and change.
  • Analyze structural aspects of organizing that influence innovation and change.
  • Explain innovation and change communication at individual, group, organizational, and community levels.
  • Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic related to innovation, change, and communication.
  • Apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal.
  • Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to communication, innovation, and organizational change.



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