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 group and organizational communications
 performing communications audits
 organizational development
 telecommunications policy crafting and knowledge of major
issues in international communications debates
 desktop publishing
 Internet-based research
 new telecommunications technology
 issue and crisis management
 applied communications research
 mediation and conflict management
 planning and implementing communications campaigns.

Graduates from this program are prepared for careers in public policy,
public relations, public affairs, telecommunications, communications
management, communications consultancy, organizational
development, organizational publications, research, and other fields
needed by a wide range of organizations.

Concentrations

The Organizational Communications Masters degree program offers
36 credit hours of study leading to one of two concentrations: Thesis
or Non-Thesis. Each concentration requires the student to take 3
credit hours of elective courses offered outside of the Organizational
Communications program.

The difference between the two options rests in two core classes.
Students who are pursuing the thesis option will take either ORGC 738
Quantitative Research or ORGC 737 Qualitative Research and ORGC
815 Thesis. Students who do not complete and successfully defend
their thesis during ORGC 815 must take ORGC 816 Thesis Advisement
(a one credit course) each semester until they have defended their
research.

Students pursing the non-thesis option will instead enroll in ORGC 607
Leadership and Change Communication and ORGC 612 Seminar on
Organizational Communications.

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