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effects. Organizations need to have prepared personnel skilled in crisis
management communication to help them in difficulties. Students’ awareness
and demonstration of crisis communication knowledge and skill is instrumental
for careers in Organizational communication.

ORGC 636 INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Telecomm Policy Concentration: Examination of theories of
telecommunications. Investigation of various contemporary social, economic,
political, cultural and educational problems in international
telecommunications. Explores telecommunications across national borders
and the role of telecommunications in developing countries.

ORGC 640 POSTMODERN APPROACHES TO COMMUNICATION
Elective: Postmodernism means an opposition to philosophical foundations of
pre-modernization and modernization. In the area of organizational
communication, postmodernism focuses on the role of power, of language, of
domination, hegemony, feminist perspectives, and queer theory. Such
approaches can best be understood and adapted by flattening hierarchy,
bureaucracy, management control, decentralization of power, and cultures
based on trust and respect for difference.

ORGC 735 STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PLANNING
Elective: This course will expose students to the role that communication
planning has in both for profit and non-profit organizations. The focus will be
on creating communication plans for different environments and outcome
needs.

ORGC 738 APPLIED RESEARCH (QUANTITATIVE METHOD)
Prerequisites: ORGC 502 and ORGC 504
Core Course: Course in research methodology which stresses the need for
theory development or framework as basis for organizational communications
research. Current literature will be reviewed to include methodology
employed and issues of theory building. Students will be guided in developing
their own research design and empirical study. Taken during your second to
last semester.

ORGC 739 QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Prerequisites: ORGC 502 and ORGC 504
This course acquaints students with the structure and characteristics of
qualitative research methodologies. Both traditional and new forms of
qualitative research design in the social sciences and humanities, with respect

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