Professional Communication
This online, interdisciplinary program brings together communication courses primarily from Communication Studies, English, and Mass Communications with a focus on workplace communication and grounded in both theory and application and real-world experience. Students have an opportunity to take courses that emphasize digital communication and communicating with diverse audiences. Students can take the program entirely online, but some courses are also available face-to-face.
Courses
- CMST211 — Public Speaking
- CMST300 — Introduction to Theories of Communication
- CMST322 — Mediated Interpersonal Communication
- CMST330 — Intercultural Communication
- CMST341 — Communication in the Workplace
- CMST404 — Ethics in Human Communication
- CMST441 — Organizational Communication
- CMST444 — Internship: Undergraduate
- CMST448 — Communication and Contemporary Leadership
- ENGL308 — Introduction to Rhetorical Theories
- ENGL332 — Writing for the Professions
- ENGL403 — Digital Rhetoric, Discourse, and Culture
- ENGL405 — Principles and Theories of Professional Communication
- ENGL430 — Principles of Document Content and Design
- ENGL432 — Rhetoric for Diverse Audiences
- ENGL434 — Editing and Publishing
- ENGL437 — Topics in Professional Writing
- ENGL444 — Internship: Undergraduate
- ENGL497 — Workplace Writing Internship
- MCOM200 — Introduction to Mass Communications
- MCOM203 — Introduction to Mass Media Writing
- MCOM260 — Introduction to Strategic Communications
- MCOM300 — Mass Media Law
- MCOM355 — Introduction to Advertising and Public Relations
- MCOM370 — Social Media Communications
- MCOM375 — Writing for Strategic Communications
- MCOM444 — Internship: Undergraduate
- MKTG333 — Business Communication Strategies
- PCOM300 — Gateway to Professional Communication
- PCOM444 — Internship: Undergraduate
- PCOM494 — Professional Communication Capstone
- PHIL329 — Ethics in Professional Communication (Diversity)