Communicating Across Cultures
Understanding how culture and communication intertwine is important to understanding and influencing events (both local and global) that shape our world. This emphasis promotes personal community involvement that can constructively respond to challenges and appreciate the advantages of an increasingly diverse society and world. This emphasis will prepare students who plan to pursue graduate school and/or careers in workplaces (large or small, for-profit or nonprofit) that involve, and/or deal with, diverse groups. Specific careers might include consulting, diplomacy, social media, marketing, technology, human resources, civil service, foreign service, conflict management, and global leadership.
Some students go on to graduate school in communication, business, global leadership or many others.
A. Required Core Courses:
| COM 263 | Elements of Intercultural Communication |
| COM 463 | Intercultural Communication in a Global Context |
B. Recommended Elective Courses:
| COM 317 | Nonverbal Communication |
| COM 327 | Civil Communication |
| COM 394 | Communication, Culture, and New Media |
| COM 442 | Identity, Performance, and Human Communication |
| COM 465 | Intercultural Communication Workshop |
| COM 494* | Conflict and Intercultural Dialogue |
| COM 494* | Communication and Multicultural Organization |
| COM 394 or COM 494 |
Relevant Special Topics Courses |