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organizational patterns of communication to achieve desired 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 737 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 to communication studies, form the basis for
this course. Taken during your second to last semester.

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

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