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The interdisciplinary major in
Organizational Communication

Internal (Employee) Communication
Suggestions for students who want to oversee communication programs for employees, and coordinate training sessions, benefits and health fairs, and special events in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Courses below seem to be best if your interest is in internal (employee) communication; 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 two areas which seem pertinent to internal communication.

Humanities and/or Fine Arts:
    PHIL 1030 Introduction to Philosophy
Social/Behavioral Sciences:
    ECON 2410 Principles of Macroeconomics
    PSY 1410 General Psychology
    SOC 2010 Social Problems

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:
    ATHC 4800 Administration of High School/College Athletics
    ATHT 4820 Organization and Administration of Athletic Training
    BCEN 3010 Office Management
    MGMT 3610 Principles of Management
    MGMT 3810 Human Resources Management
    PR 3040 Public Relations Principles
    PSY 3320 Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology
    REC 3010 Introduction to Recreation and Leisure Services
    RIM 3600 Survey of the Recording Industry
    SOC 4100 Sociology of Work
    SOC 3950 Social Organizations and Institutions
    SOC 4560 Organization Structures and Processes
    THEA 3800 (ORCO 3800) Introduction to Arts Management

Intercultural/International, choose 1:
    BCEN 4670 International Business Communication
    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
    MGMT 4620 International Human Resource Management
    MGMT 4730 Global Comparative Management
    P S 3000 The Political Status of Women in the World
    P S 3030 Introduction to Human Rights
    PSY 4720 Multicultural Perspectives in Psychology and Education
    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
    MGMT 4500 Employment Discrimination Law
    ORCO 3245 (LEST 3245) Women, Leadership, and Communication
    P S 3010 Women and the Law
    P S 3170 Civil Rights Policy and Politics
    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 4010 Social Inequity
    SOC 4240 Race and Ethnic Relations

Communication, choose 2:
    BCEN 3510 Business Communication
    BLAW 3400 Legal Environment of Business
    ECON 4510 (MGMT 4510) Unions and Collective Bargaining
    ENGL 3500 Applied Writing
    ENGL 3520 Professional Writing
    HLTH 4400 Drugs & Violence in Health Education
    HLTH 4860 Organization and Administration of Health Education
    JOUR 2710 Media Writing
    LEST 4500 Topics in Leadership Studies
    MGMT 3940 Business Ethics
    MGMT 3890 Managerial Decision Making
    ORCO 4000 Topics in Organizational Communication
    PHIL 3150 Ethics
    PSY 4370 Motivation and Work Attitudes
    PSY 4390 Persuasion
    SOC 4150 Topics in Sociology

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
    ECON 4390 Employee Benefits (same as FIN 4390)
    ECON 4420 Labor and Human Resource Economics
    ECON 4490 Industrial Relations Legislation
    INFS 1010 Social Networking
    MGMT 4500 Employment Discrimination (same as BLAW 4500)
    MGMT 4680 Organization Behavior
    MGMT 4640 Human Resources Planning and Staffing
    MGMT 4650 Human Resource Development
    MGMT 4830 Performance Appraisal
    PSY 4270 Personnel Selection and Placement
    PSY 4330 Industrial/Organizational Training & Development
    PSY 4350 Safety Psychology
    SOC 4500 Social Psychology

 

Also see other emphases in the Department of Speech & Theatre:
Communication Studies
Communication Disorders
Theatre & Dance

and the nationally known
Intercollegiate Debate Association
      
Middle Tennessee State University
Murfreesboro, TN  37132


Web site last updated 08/07/2008.