The interdisciplinary
major in
Organizational Communication
Arts Organizations
Suggestions for students wanting to work in nonprofit museums, house museums,
art galleries, and for symphonies and theatres. A minor in an arts discipline
and two internships with arts organizations are strongly recommended. One
internship should focus on technical, stage management, or performance areas,
and the second internship should focus on management within an arts
organization. You must learn about the art form and how to talk to artists, as
well as learn how the arts organization operates.
Courses below seem to be best if your interest is in arts organizations;
however, they are not required. You may take any of the courses approved for
General Education and for the Cognate in the Organizational Communication major.
General Education – 41 hours
Suggestions for General Education: From among the 41 hours required in the
General Education, we recommend specific courses in three areas which seem
pertinent to arts organizations.
Humanities and/or Fine Arts:
ART 1030 Orientation to Art
DANC 1000 Dance Appreciation
MUS 1030 Introduction to Music
THEA 1030 Theatre Appreciation
Natural Sciences:
ASTR 1030/1031 Exploring the Universe
GEOL 1030/1031 Introduction to Earth Science
Social/Behavioral Sciences:
ANTH 2010 Cultural Anthropology
Organizational Communication major – 30 hours (fall 2008 catalog); 31
hours (2003 to summer 2008 catalog)
Please talk to your advisor about requirements in the major.
Required statistics and internship – 6 hours (fall 2008 catalog)
Majors are required to take a statistics course and to choose 3 internship hours
from the following: ORCO 4220 Internship, COED 2930 Cooperative Education,
or COMM 3620/3630/4620/4630 Applied Communication.
Cognate -- 18 hours
Suggestions for the Cognate: From among the 18 hours required in the Cognate, we
recommend that you choose from the following lists.
Organizations, choose 2:
BCEN
2900 Entrepreneurship
BCEN 3010 Office Management
MGMT 3610 Principles of Management
MGMT 3810 Human Resources Management
MKT 3820 Principles of Marketing
PR 3040 Public Relations Principles
REC 3390 Tourism and Commercial Recreation
SOC 3950 Social Organizations and Institutions
SOC 4560 Organizational Structures and Processes
THEA 3800
(ORCO 3800) Introduction to Arts Management
Intercultural/International, choose 1:
CJA 4220
Community Relations and Minority Problems
COMM 3350 Multicultural Communication
COMM 3560 Intercultural Communication
FREN 3030 Business French
GERM 3030 Business German
HIST 4810 History of Women in the Third World
MES 2010 Introduction to Middle East Studies
P S 3000 The Political Status of Women in the World
P S 3030 Introduction to Human Rights
SPAN 3030 Business Spanish
SPAN 3060 Introduction to Hispanic Culture
Diversity, choose 1:
A S 2600 Introduction to Aging
Studies
BCEN 4680 Diversity in the Workplace
CJA 3700 (WMST 3700) Women, Crime, and Justice Administration
COMM 3225 Gender Communication
HLTH 4390 Women’s Health
ORCO 3245 (LEST 3245) Women, Leadership, and Communication
PSY 3250 Perspectives on Black Psychology
PSY 4610 Adult Psychology and Aging
PSY 4620 Psychology of Women
REC 3380 Introduction to Recreation for Persons with a
Disability
REC 4470 Leisure and Aging
SOC 3400 Gender and Society
SOC 4240 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 4510 Social Movements and Social Change
Communication, choose 2:
BCEN 3510 Business Communication
BLAW 3400 Legal Environment of Business
ENGL 3500 Applied Writing
ENGL 3520 Professional Writing
JOUR 2710 Media Writing
LEST 4500 Topics in Leadership Studies
MGMT 3940 Business Ethics
MGMT 3890 Managerial Decision Making
MKT 3850 Promotion
MKT 3920 Entertainment Marketing
ORCO 4000 Topics in Organizational Communication
ORCO 4850 (THEA 4850) Development for Arts Organizations)
PHIL 2110 Logic and Critical Thinking
PHIL 3150 Ethics
PSY 4390 Persuasion
SOC 4150 Topics in Sociology
SOC 4790 Sport and Society
Electives – 25 hours
Suggestions for Electives: For your elective
hours, we recommend you choose more courses listed in the Cognate or from the
following list.
ACTG 1110 Introduction to Accounting
or ACTG 3000 Survey of Accounting for
General Business
COMM 2150 Voice and Diction
CSCI 1150 Computer Orientation
INFS 1010 Social Networking
MKT 3900 Direct Marketing and Electronic Commerce
MKT 3910 Consumer Behavior
MUHL 3120 Masterworks of Classical Music
THEA 3810 Stage Management
THEA 3910 Internship in Theatre
