Students will explore how communicative practices construct cultural understandings of work, both currently and historically, and how work conducted in a range of organizations. Students will develop capacities to use multi-level, multi-method analyses of organizing across work, community, and social change contexts, with a sustained focus on communication as constitutive of organizing. Students will explore topics such as globalization, work and identity, power and resistance, ethics, leadership, teamwork, democracy and citizenship, gender, race and class, and community-based organizing to produce responsible, ethical, and sustainable organizations. Students may pursue careers in public relations, strategic and corporate communication, consulting, social media, marketing, management, training and development, sales, and human resource management, among others.
Pathway Starting Point Courses
COMM 113 Public Speaking (3 credits)
COMM 120 Introduction to Interpersonal and Organizational Communication (3 credits)
COMM 130 Introduction to Media Production (3 credits)
COMM 140 Introduction to Media History, Theory, and Criticism (3 credits)
COMM 170 Rhetoric and Public Issues (3 credits)
COMM 224 Introduction to Gender and Communication (3 credits)
COMM 249 Introduction to Communication Technology, Culture, and Society (3 credits)
COMM 325 Introduction to Organizational Communication (3 credits)
Lower-Level Courses
COMM 51 First-Year Seminar: Organizing and Communicating for Social Entrepreneurs (3 credits)
COMM 53 First-Year Seminar: Collective Leadership Models for Community Change (3 credits)
COMM 57 First-Year Seminar: Is There Life after College?: The Meaning of Work in Contemporary Life (3 credits)
COMM 73 First-Year Seminar: Understanding Place through Rhetoric (3 credits)
COMM 75 iB First-Year Seminar: Researching Society and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 82 First-Year Seminar: Food Politics from an Organizational Communication
Perspective (3 credits)
COMM 83 iB First-Year Seminar: Networked Societies (3 credits)
COMM 86 First-Year Seminar: Surveillance and Society (3 credits)
COMM 89 8: First-Year Seminar: Special Topics (3 credits)
COMM 223 Small Group Communication (3 credits)
COMM 262 Introduction to the Performance of Culture (3 credits)
COMM 312 Persuasion (3 credits)
COMM 318 Cultural Diversity (3 credits)
COMM 360 Social Media and Society (3 credits)
COMM/ENEC 375 Environmental Advocacy (3 credits)
COMM 378 Environmental Filmmaking: Creative Production and Social Impact (3 credits)
COMM 390 Special Topics in Communication Study (3 credits)
COMM 393 Internships (1-3 credits)
Upper-Level Courses
COMM 412 Critical Theory (3 credits)
COMM 422 Family Communication
OMM 423 Critical Perspectives on Work, Labor, and Professional Life (3 credits)
COMM 470 Political Communication and the Public Sphere (3 credits)
COMM 471 Rhetorics of Public Memory (3 credits)
COMM 472 Rhetorical Criticism (3 credits)
COMM 490 Special Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 499 The Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
COMM 521 Communication and Social Memory (3 credits)
COMM 523 Communication and Leadership (3 credits)
COMM 524 Gender, Communication, and Culture (3 credits)
COMM 525 Organizational Communication (3 credits)
COMM 526 Critical-Cultural Approaches to Organizational Communication (3 credits)
COMM 527 Organizational Ethics (3 credits)
COMM 571 Rhetorical Theory and Practice (3 credits)
COMM 572 Public Policy Argument (3 credits)
COMM 573 The American Experience in Rhetoric (3 credits)
COMM 596 Advanced Independent Study/Directed Reading (3 credits)
COMM 620 Theories of Interpersonal Communication (3 credits)
COMM 624 Hate Speech (3 credits)
COMM 625 Communication and Nonprofits in the Global Context (3 credits)
COMM 650 Cultural Politics of Global Media Economies (3 credits)
COMM 658 Surveillance Cultures (3 credits)
COMM 690 Advanced Topics in Communication Studies (3 credits)
COMM 693H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 694H Honors (3 credits)
COMM 695 Field Methods (3 credits)