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CMST 330 - Organizational Communication

Credits: 5
Introduces students to the communication dynamics of organizations. Students will examine the ways in which they shape and are shaped by their interactions with organizations as well as analyze how communication processes are used, coordinated, and controlled to achieve collective organizational outcomes. Students will explore structure, culture, decision-making, conflict, power, and network effects of communication in organizations.

Enrollment Requirement: Admission into a BAS program; and ENGL& 101 ; or instructor consent.  Recommended: CMST& 230  

Course Fee: $2.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

  1. Identify the major concepts and theories relevant to organizational communication.
  2. Examine the role of communication in organizations.
  3. Demonstrate strategic approaches to communication as an organizational tool.
  4. Apply productive communication strategies in organizations.
  5. Construct methodological approaches to the development of solutions for organizational communication issues.

Program Outcomes
  1. Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
  2. Use, synthesize, or produce the needed information ethically.


College-wide Outcomes
  • Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.



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