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Jan 28, 2025
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Communication, Organizational Communication Concentration, B.S.
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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.
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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) |
| Optional Minor/Electives |
34-40 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: Students must earn C- or better in the major core.
Organizational Communication Concentration (12 hours)
Organizational Communication Electives (9 hours)
Choose 9 credit hours from the following:
Major Electives (6 hours)
Choose two COMM courses not already taken
Optional Minor/Electives (34-40 hours)
Curriculum: Communication, Organizational Communication
The following is a suggested pattern of study. Consult with an advisor before each registration.
Freshman Fall
- COMM 2100 - Introduction to Human Communication 3 credit hours (NWC)
- Written Communication 3 credit hours
- Non-Written Communication/Elective 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
- Quantitative Literacy 3 credit hours
Sophomore Fall
- COMM 3300 - Communication Theory 3 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression Literature 3 credit hours
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Scientific Literacy 4 credit hours
- Creativity and Cultural Expression 3 credit hours
Sophomore Spring
- History and Civic Learning 3 credit hours
- Human Society and Social Relationships 3 credit hours
- Elective 3 credit hours
- Elective/minor 6 credit hours
Senior Fall
- Organizational Communication electives 6 credit hours
- Elective/minor 3 credit hours
- Electives 6 credit hours
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