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Apr 29, 2024
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COMS 8200 - Foundations of Organizational Communication
This course is designed to provide an introduction to organizational communication. Specifically, this course covers both foundational and contemporary theory, research, and practice related to organizational communication. Students in this course are exposed to multiple theoretical, conceptual, and methodological approaches adopted across the field. Students think critically about how past and present scholarly trends guide our field.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within organizational communication.
- Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain.
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of organizational communication.
- Apply principles of organizational communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives.
- Demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of organizational communication practices in research and everyday situations.
- Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing a specific topic of organizational communication inquiry.
- Apply knowledge in an independent research project/proposal.
- Practice synthesizing research, designing research studies, and analyzing data.
- Recognize and articulate their own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of organizational communication inquiry and explicate how these assumptions guide their own research and practice.
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