Oct 04, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Communication, Organizational Communication Concentration, B.A.


Communication Studies   
Janet McCormick, program director
Janet.Mccormick@mtsu.edu
 

The major in Communication with a concentration in Organizational Communication directs student attention toward experiencing and analyzing communication dynamics in the context of organizational life. Students will observe, reflect, and become organizational agents of change through writing grants, conducting training sessions, and participating in communication auditing and consulting projects.

Academic Map


Following is a printable, suggested four-year schedule of courses:

Communication, Organizational Communication, B.A., Academic Map    

Degree Requirements


True Blue Core (TBC) 41 hours
Major Requirement 45 hours
     Major Core    (18 hours)*
     ORCO Concentration    (12 hours)
     ORCO Electives    (9 hours)
     Major Electives    (6 hours)
Foreign Language Requirement 6 hours
Minor 15-18 hours
Electives 10-19 hours
TOTAL 120 hours

 *This program requires courses that can also fulfill requirements of the True Blue Core curriculum. If program requirements are also used to fulfill True Blue Core requirements, the number of elective hours may increase.

True Blue Core (41 hours)


True Blue Core (TBC)  requirements (shown in curricular listings below) include courses in the Foundational Skills areas of Written Communication (WC), Information Literacy (Info Lit), Non-Written Communication (NWC), and Quantitative Literacy (Quant Lit). Knowledge Domains include Human Society and Social Relationships (HSSR), Scientific Literacy (Sci Lit), Creativity and Cultural Expression (CCE), and History and Civic Learning (HCL), which include Discovery and Explorations categories. Students must choose at least one course from each Discovery category.

The following courses required by the major meet True Blue Core requirements:

Major Requirements (45 hours)


Communication Major Core (18 hours)


  NOTE: A minimum grade of C- is required in each major core course.

Major Electives (6 hours)


Choose two COMM courses not already taken

Foreign Language Requirement (6 hours)


  • Students must complete 2010 and 2020 or any 6 hours above the 2000 level in a foreign language or otherwise demonstrate competency in a foreign language.

Minor (15-18 hours)


Electives (10-19 hours)


Curriculum: Communication, Organizational Communication


Freshman Fall


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Freshman Spring


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Sophomore Fall


  • 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
  • Foreign language 2010 3 credit hours
  • Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Sophomore Spring


  • 3 credit hours
  • Foreign language 2020 3 credit hours
  • Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
  • History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
  • Elective/minor 3 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Junior Fall


Subtotal: 16 Hours


Junior Spring


Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Fall


  • Organizational Communication electives 6 credit hours
  • Elective/minor 3 credit hours
  • Electives 6 credit hours

Subtotal: 15 Hours


Senior Spring


Subtotal: 13 Hours