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Admission Requirements Graduate Program Thesis/ Non-Thesis Plan & Final Exam Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Corporate and Organizational Communication
PROGRAM OF STUDY
Students must complete at least 35 semester hours for this degree. A foreign language is not required. With approval of the student's advisory committee, up to 12 hours of 400-level and 500-level graduate course work from outside the speech communication curriculum may be applied toward the minimum of 35 hours.
All students admitted to the program are required to enroll in the program core, which consists of two courses (8 hours total): SPC 500-4 (Seminar in Communication Theory) and SPC 501-4 (Communication Research Methods and Tools). The core courses must be completed with a minimum grade of "B" the first time that they are offered after the student is admitted. Students who fail to meet this stipulation will be restricted from enrolling in any other 500-level courses until the program core requirement is met.
Responsibility for the development of the remainder of the student's program of study rests with the student and student's advisory committee. The Department of Speech Communication offers a variety of courses designed to complement special professional interests in such areas as organizational communication, interpersonal and group communication, public relations, and communication education.
Students may choose either a thesis or a non-thesis plan of study. These plans are comparable, since all 500-level courses in the department will require students to conduct individual or group research projects. Those research projects will directly involve the students (regardless of the study plan that they have chosen) with the tools and methods used by researchers within the given content area of each course.
The Program of Study Forms can be downloaded by clicking on the links below (note: you need Adobe Acrobat Reader to be able to access the file).
Program of Study Forms (pdf file)
