Post Baccalaureate Certificate
in Corporate and Organizational Communication

Admission Requirements  Graduate Program Program of Study
Thesis/ Non-Thesis Plan & Final Exam

POST-BACCALAUREATE CERTIFICATE
CORPORATE AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

The Department of Speech Communication offers an 18-hour program of graduate study leading to a post-baccalaureate certificate that is designed to meet the needs of professionals who are seeking advanced education and training in intraorganizational and interorganizational communication. The program centers on a core of courses that provide these professionals with experience in diagnosing communication problems in organizations and implementing solutions, with a variety of methods to analyze organizational cultures and cultural change, with principles and techniques of communication consulting, and with a survey of the most current research in organizational communication. In addition to this core, certificate program students are offered the opportunity to select from additional courses that can expand their expertise at working with specific organizational communication processes.

ADMISSION

In addition to Graduate School admission requirements, the following apply:

  1. Applicants must have an undergraduate grade point average of at least 2.75.
  2. Applicants must have either (a) an undergraduate major or minor in communication, business, or a related discipline, or (b) three years of professional experience in a complex organizational environment. For further information about this requirement, please contact the department's Director of Graduate Studies at (618) 650-3090.
  3. Applicants must submit a typed statement of at least 500 words about their professional experience and/or goals as they relate to the post-baccalaureate certificate program in organizational communication.

PROGRAM OF STUDY

Students will be advised by the Speech Communication Department's graduate program director. They must complete eighteen hours for the certificate.

Required courses (12 hours):
SPC 403 — Organizational Communication Theory and Applications;
SPC 540 — Survey of Organizational Communication Research;
SPC 541 — Seminar in Organizational Culture;
SPC 542 — Communication Consulting.

Elective courses (6 hours): (Select two)
SPC 510 — Seminar in Group Communication;
SPC 511 — Seminar in Intercultural Communication;
SPC 550 — Seminar in Public Relations.

If desired, a student also may choose, with the permission of the Graduate Program Director, any one of the following three courses as a part of the 18-hour program:

SPC 419 — Special Topics in Speech Communication;
SPC 590 — Individual Research in Speech Communication;
SPC 591 — Internship in Applied Speech Communication.

Substitution of other graduate-level speech communication courses will be allowed only after approval, in advance, by the department's graduate program director.

Each student will have a performance review beginning after the completion of the first two courses.

EXIT REQUIREMENTS

Students must maintain a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 on a scale of 4.0, and must complete the 18-hour program of study in four years or less.