Course Overview
In addition to providing frameworks to guide you through the challenges you face in your organization, our Master of Science in Communication programs incorporate professional development and networking opportunities at every stage. These opportunities empower you with the skills and confidence you need to gain and sustain a competitive advantage in the workplace. Our small communication master's classes ensure that you will receive personalized attention from our world-class faculty, leading academics, and industry experts who draw from extensive hands-on experience. Their expertise in communication strategy, leadership, organizational behavior, information technologies, and global economies is at the heart of a flexible and broadly relevant curriculum that can be applied to almost any industry. Learning Themes, Managing Complexity, The business landscape today rewards individuals that are both responsive to and embrace complexity. The MSC programs train you to assess complex organizational environments and achieve your communication goals. You will be trained to analyze and leverage networks, use new open-technologies and systems to innovate, engage online stakeholders, and respond to organizational crises. Collaborative Leadership, We believe that collaboratively leading teams across disciplines, distances, and sectors is critical in addressing today's complex challenges. Our experientially-focused curriculum enables you to learn about collaborative leadership and decision-making through appraising team needs, building professional relationships, managing collaborative technologies, and facilitating group interaction. Elegant Communication, Elegant communication is the most sought after competency in the workplace today. The MSC programs cultivate leaders who are able to critically analyze messages and to create and deliver elegant messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context. Analytics, communication evaluation, and strategic communication planning will become second nature.