Overview
Description
Overview of organizational communication as academic area of inquiry, focusing on research, concepts, and theories that allows for practical understanding of the role of communication in and of organizations and the academic study of organizational practices.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Spring - Even Years
Terms
spring
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- identify communication studies approaches to studying organizations.
- articulate organizational communication perspectives, theories, and issues.
- explain the role of communication in, and as constitutive of, organizations.
- apply organizational communication theory to a variety of situations, including your organizational experiences, current events, and representations of organizations in popular culture.
- propose organizational research and understand the challenges, constraints, and ethics of studying contemporary organizations.
- identify communication strategies to enhance effectiveness of organizational communication practice.