Internal (Employee) Comm

The interdisciplinary major in
Organizational Communication

Internal (Employee) Communication
Suggestions for students who want to:
* oversee communication programs for employees
* coordinate training and orientation programs
* plan benefits and health fairs, wellness and literacy programs
* direct special events, rewards and recognition events, retirement receptions
* coordinate and evaluate employee recruitment and retention programs

These activities are done in corporations, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies.

Courses below seem to be best if your interest is in internal (employee) communication; however, they are not required. You may take any of the courses approved for General Education and for the Cognate in the Organizational Communication major.

General Education – 41 hours
Suggestions for General Education: From among the 41 hours required in the General Education, we recommend specific courses in two areas which seem pertinent to internal communication.

Humanities and/or Fine Arts:
    PHIL 1030 Introduction to Philosophy
Social/Behavioral Sciences:
    ECON 2410 Principles of Macroeconomics
    PSY 1410 General Psychology
    SOC 2010 Social Problems

Organizational Communication major – 30 hours (fall 2008 catalog); 31 hours (2003 to summer 2008 catalog)
Please talk to your advisor about requirements in the major.

Required statistics and internship – 6 hours (fall 2008 catalog)
Majors are required to take a statistics course and to choose 3 internship hours from the following: ORCO 4220 Internship (EXL), COED 2930 Cooperative Education, or COMM 3620/3630/4620/4630 Applied Communication.

Cognate -- 18 hours
Suggestions for the Cognate: From among the 18 hours required in the Cognate, we recommend that you choose from the following lists.

Organizations, choose 2:

ATHC 4800 Administration of High School/College Athletics
ATHT 4820 Organization and Administration of Athletic Training
BCEN 3010 Office Management
MGMT 3610 Principles of Management
MGMT 3810 Human Resources Management
PR 3040 Public Relations Principles
PSY 3320 Introduction to Industrial and Organizational Psychology
REC 3010 Introduction to Recreation and Leisure Services
RIM 3600 Survey of the Recording Industry
SOC 3950 Social Organizations and Institutions
SOC 4100 Sociology of Work
SOC 4560 Organization Structures and Processes
THEA 3800 (ORCO 3800) Introduction to Arts Management

Intercultural/International, choose 1:

BCEN 4670 International Business Communication
COMM 3350 Multicultural Communication
COMM 3560 Intercultural Communication
FREN 3030 Business French
GERM 3030 Business German
HIST 4810 History of Women in the Third World
MES 2010 Introduction to Middle East Studies
MGMT 4620 International Human Resource Management
MGMT 4730 Global Comparative Management
P S 3000 The Political Status of Women in the World
P S 3030 Introduction to Human Rights
PSY 4720 Multicultural Perspectives in Psychology and Education
SPAN 3030 Business Spanish
SPAN 3060 Introduction to Hispanic Culture

Diversity, choose 1:

A S 2600 Introduction to Aging Studies
BCEN 4680 Diversity in the Workplace
CJA 3700 (WMST 3700) Women, Crime, and Justice Administration
COMM 3225 Gender Communication
HLTH 4390 Women’s Health
MGMT 4500 Employment Discrimination Law
ORCO 3245 (LEST 3245) Women, Leadership, and Communication
P S 3010 Women and the Law
P S 3170 Civil Rights Policy and Politics
PSY 3250 Perspectives on Black Psychology
PSY 4610 Adult Psychology and Aging
PSY 4620 Psychology of Women
REC 3380 Introduction to Recreation for Persons with a Disability
REC 4470 Leisure and Aging
SOC 3400 Gender and Society
SOC 4010 Social Inequity
SOC 4240 Race and Ethnic Relations

Communication, choose 2:

BCEN 3510 Business Communication
BLAW 3400 Legal Environment of Business
ECON 4510 (MGMT 4510) Unions and Collective Bargaining
ENGL 3500 Applied Writing
ENGL 3520 Professional Writing
HLTH 4400 Drugs & Violence in Health Education
HLTH 4860 Organization and Administration of Health Education
JOUR 2710 Media Writing
LEST 4500 Topics in Leadership Studies
MGMT 3940 Business Ethics
MGMT 3890 Managerial Decision Making
ORCO 4000 Topics in Organizational Communication
PHIL 3150 Ethics
PSY 4370 Motivation and Work Attitudes
PSY 4390 Persuasion
SOC 4150 Topics in Sociology

Electives – 25 hours
Suggestions for Electives: For your elective hours, we recommend you choose more courses listed in the Cognate or from the following list.

ACTG 1110 Introduction to Accounting
or ACTG 3000 Survey of Accounting for General Business
COMM 2150 Voice and Diction
CSCI 1150 Computer Orientation
ECON 4390 Employee Benefits (same as FIN 4390)
ECON 4420 Labor and Human Resource Economics
ECON 4490 Industrial Relations Legislation
INFS 1010 Social Networking
MGMT 4500 Employment Discrimination (same as BLAW 4500)
MGMT 4680 Organization Behavior
MGMT 4640 Human Resources Planning and Staffing
MGMT 4650 Human Resource Development
MGMT 4830 Performance Appraisal
PSY 4270 Personnel Selection and Placement
PSY 4330 Industrial/Organizational Training & Development
PSY 4350 Safety Psychology
SOC 4500 Social Psychology