Organizational Communication, B.S.
The bachelor of science degree program in organizational communication provides specialized, interdisciplinary instruction in professional aptitudes associated with workplace and community roles, guiding students' learning about effective, ethical work in modern organizations. This degree program offers coursework in partnership with the School of Business, each explaining key concepts and practices that underlie human and technical organizational communication systems.
Aside from learning communication's constitutive role in organizing, organizational communication students develop understandings and competencies in ethical collaboration and leadership abilities for a variety of contemporary contexts, including ways communication processes sustain and change organizations' relational, community, and cultural environments. Students in this program also develop the applied understanding they need to coordinate and manage the work of a variety of organizations.
This degree prepares students for specialized graduate study in communication and related fields, and for professional work in several organizational roles and contexts. Organizational communication students are actively guided to explore the professional training available to them through a host of community-based academic internships.
UP Core Requirements — 40 credit hours
All University of Portland students progress through a set of shared course options as part of the University’s liberal arts Core Curriculum. This curriculum offers a foundation of multiple lenses to address enduring questions of human concern, integrating the liberal arts, the University mission, and the knowledge, skills, and values needed in a diverse society and in the workplace.
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The core requirement for the Diversity & the Common Good Habit is satisfied by COM 225 within the major
COM 300, COM 320, or COM 330 and COM 475/COM 497 are the designated Writing in the Discipline courses for the B.S. in Organizational Communication.
College of Arts and Sciences B.S. Requirements — 6 credit hours
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Major Requirements — 54 credit hours
Required Courses - 18 credit hours
| COM 101 | Introduction to Communication and Media | 3 |
| COM 107 | Public Speaking for Change | 3 |
| COM 225 | Interpersonal Communication: Relating to Others | 3 |
| COM 233 | Organizing Across Contexts | 3 |
| COM 332 | Transforming Group and Team Communication | 3 |
| BUS 200 | Principles of Marketing | 3 |
Research Methods Courses - 6 credit hours
Select two of the following courses:
Upper-division Business Courses - 6 credit hours
Students choose two 3-credit hour upper-division BUS courses in consultation with their academic advisors.
Upper-division COM Courses - 21 credit hours
Students select seven 3-credit hour upper-division COM courses in consultation with their academic advisors. At least three of these courses must be 400-level.
Senior Project - 3 credit hours
Select one of the following to be completed senior year:
| COM 475 | Senior Capstone Project | 3 |
| COM 497 | Communication Internship Practicum | 3 |
Any additional credit hours required to complete a minimum of 120 credit hours
Total Credit Hours: 120