EDRD*3140 - Organizational Communication

Course Description

This course explores the application of communication process theory to organizations with special emphasis on internal organizational processes experienced at individual, group and organizational levels. Students examine communication in different organizational contexts including civil society, government, business and transnational corporations.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the learner should be able to:

• Discuss and communicate with your peers the ways in which communicating and organizing intersect from both theoretical and practical standpoints;
• Articulate important historical shifts within organizational thinking including some current and underlying tensions that characterize the ways we think about organizations;
• Communicate how organizational communication and organizational thinking in general may be connected to your own professional and vocational goals;
• Analyze and critique communication content and strategies within existing organizations; and
• Develop an inquiring capacity for organizational thinking and build a research proposal within the realm of organizational communication.

Course Topics

• Introduction to organizational communication
• Organizational hierarchies and networks
• Human relations, human resources, and beyond
• Cultural approaches to organizational thinking
• Critical approaches to organizational thinking
• Organizations and systems thinking
• Organization and process
• New horizons and student-created content

Assessment

Specific due dates will be posted to the course website.

Applies Towards the Following Certificates

• Certificate in Business : Electives
• Certificate in Leadership : Electives