COM-6100 Professional Communications Theory
This course provides an overview of major communication theories with an emphasis on communication styles and approaches operative in today's workplace environment. Strategic planning, analysis, and critical thinking in light of contemporary trends and issues will be studied. The focus will be the application and evaluation of theories through case analysis and discussion. Students will have the opportunity to engage in self-assessment of communication competence and learn strategies for enhancing their abilities. Problems in the context of professional communication will be identified and theory-based solutions generated.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
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COM-6200 Advanced Professional and Business Writing
This course is a comprehensive study of professional and business writing. The focus is to develop documents appropriate to audience and purpose that are well-argued and conform to standards of professional and business writing. It will examine such topics as the formation of professional communication as a discipline, business ethics, new media platform for business, and intercultural business and professional communication. The course will also explore the context, purpose, audience, style, organization, format, results, and strategies for persuasion in typical workplace messages.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
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DHM-6200 Social Media and Social Change
This course gives an investigation of the role of social networking technologies in creating communities in digital and physical spaces. Students will examine how social networking and peer collaboration technologies have engendered participation in campaigns and movements for social change in the digital information age. Students will thoroughly explore the concept of "social change" itself by identifying the values embedded in dominant cultural narratives of progress and decline. Students will then turn their attention to the ways individuals and groups implement social media technologies to support or forestall social, political, and cultural changes. There will be particular focus on the social media tools that communities use to disseminate and preserve valuable cultural information and knowledge when freedoms of expression are limited by external controls. Students will analyze and apply concepts of network theory to create a project that traces the presence and function of social media in relation to a particular community campaign or movement.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
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MSP-6620 Practical Grant Writing
In this course, students will practice researching, writing, budgeting, and evaluating successful grant proposals. Grant writing ethics are stressed throughout the course. While the concepts covered can be applied to business, individual, and government proposals, this course focuses on philanthropic grants to nonprofit organizations from charitable foundations. Within one week of starting class, students will be required to identify a charitable or government entity and project to serve as a subject for their own proposal. To successfully complete the course, each student will create a proposal that he or she may wish to submit to grantmaking organizations, engage in the process of identifying funders and translating technical program objectives to a lay audience, create meaningful evaluation criteria or program process, and demonstrate how his or her program matches the funder's mission.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
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