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Organizational  Communication and
Public Relations Concentration


Are you destined to become a PR guru?  Would you make a great event planner?  Think you'd make an excellent negotiator or corporate trainer?  How cool would it be to be the public spokesperson for a large organization?  If any of these careers sounds interesting to you, then you should consider our Concentration in Organizational Communication and
Public Relations.

In conjunction with the core curriculum
in Communication Studies, the Organizational Communication and Public Relations Concentration
is designed to cultivate in students an 
understanding of the processes through which human beings organize themselves to accomplish goals.  To this end, students explore ways in which organizations communicate with internal and external publics, and the ways in which organizations are enacted at the interpersonal communication level.  

Students pursuing the Organizational  
Communication and Public Relations Concentration may choose to enter careers such as Public Relations, Event Planning, Human Resources, Crisis Communication or Strategic Consulting.

Communication student works a press conference with sports media.

Internships

Lambda Pi Eta
(Honor Society)

Communication
Studies Club

National
Communication
Association

PRSSA

AEJMC

International
Communication
Association

 

 

 


Communication Studies Core Classes
COMM 101 Public Speaking
COMM 200 Communication Theory 
COMM 210 Media & Society 
COMM 310 Interpersonal Communication
COMM 400 Communication Ethics 
COMM 460 Communication Research
                  Methods   
COMM 461 Senior Seminar 
COMM 492 Communication Internship

Classes Required for
Organizational Communication and
Public Relations Concentration

COMM 280 Fundamentals of Public Relations
COMM 350 Persuasion Theory
COMM 362 Organizational Communication
COMM 364 Applied Organizational
                  Communication
COMM 366 Conflict Resolution
COMM 420 Intercultural Communication
COMM 470 Gender and Communication
COMM 481 Crisis Communication

 
 

 Longwood University Communication Studies Program
  201 High Street, Farmville, Virginia, 23909
  434-395-2643

  commstudies@longwood.edu
 Site concept and some photography by Allison Hacker, Comm Studies '06