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College
College of Communication and Information
Department
School of Communication Studies

135 Taylor Hall
Tel: 330-672-2659
E-mail: comm@kent.edu
Web: www.kent.edu/comm
 

The Organizational Communication minor allows students pursuing, for example, business management, marketing, or business-related major degrees a more specific minor in Organizational Communication to add and demonstrate they have more communication training facilitating organizational communication processes because of required specialized curriculum guiding the minor degree selections. This adaptation and exploration is likely to be more appealing to both students when constructing their resumes and to employers when making hiring decisions and considering the necessary types of communication skill competencies required for the profession.

 

Attribute Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION MINOR REQUIREMENTS (18 credits)
Attribute Course Title Credits Min. Grade
KAD COMM 15000 Introduction to Human Communication 3  
  COMM 25863 Business and Professional Communication 3  
  COMM 25902 Communication Theory 3  
  Choose from the following: 9  
  COMM 35600 Communication in Small Groups and Teams (3)    
  COMM 35860 Interviewing (3)    
WIC COMM 35864 Organizational Communication (3)    
  COMM 45865 Organizational Communication Training and Development (3)    
  MINIMUM TOTAL 18  

Requirement to declare minor: Minimum 2.000 overall Kent State University GPA; or, if a first semester freshman or transfer student admitted in good standing, no established Kent State University GPA is needed. Minimum 2.250 GPA in the minor required for graduation.