Communication Degree at La Salle University
The Department of Communication is guided by Lasallian values, which serve as a basis for our decisions, and provide the framework for the ethical and behavioral values we strive to model for our students. Primary among these values is an abiding respect for the uniqueness of each student, the provision of a practical education, and the creation of a shared teaching and learning community.
Lynne A. Texter, Ph.D.
Department Chair, Associate Professor
Com Center 223
215.951.1207
texter@lasalle.edu
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The following 13 courses are required in the cohort component of the Accelerated Degree Program in Corporate Communication, and must be taken at La Salle University:
Business and Professional Communication
Business Writing
Persuasion
Visual Design
Strategic Analysis
Principles of Public Relations
Public Relations Writing
Introduction to Marketing with Applications
Group and Team Communication
Organizational Communication
Dynamics of Leadership and Change in Complex Organizational Systems
Communication Ethics
Corporate Communication Seminar
Other courses required to complete the bachelor’s degree may be satisfied in a variety of ways:
Online courses offered through La Salle University
Courses offered at La Salle University Main Campus and Bucks County Center
CLEP (College Level Examination Program)
Courses taken elsewhere (Special permission can be given
Communication skills. In a workplace that seems radically different from the one you knew five years ago — or five minutes ago — the ability to clearly and persuasively articulate thoughts and ideas continues to be the most timeless, and the most critical, of all professional skills. That’s why business leaders consistently place communication skills at the top of the list of “must have” competencies for hiring and promotion. Tie that with the strong job market in the communication industries, and a degree in Corporate Communication will broaden your career options and enhance your opportunities by providing you
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The typical candidate for this program is a motivated adult with five years of documented professional or volunteer experience, 45 transferable credits with English Composition I and II already completed, and proficiency in personal computing. An interview with one of our advisors is also a component of the admission process.
LSU's master's program is broadly based in British and American literature. As a graduate student, you will be expected to take forty-eight hours, twenty-four of which must be at the graduate level (click here for complete degree requirements). A class in research methods and proven facility in a foreign language are required; the rest of your program will be individually designed according to your background and interests.
Many of our students consider their experience as a teaching assistant to be the most important part of the MA program. If you apply for and receive a teaching assistantship, you will teach one
Core Comminucation Requirements: 30 units for both Public Relations/Advertising and Theory emphases:
COMM 104, 226, 244, 285, 288, 328, 344, 485, 490
Required Cognate: Math 251 Introduction to Statistics (4), or BUAD 341 for COMM 490
Public Relations and Advertising
69 units total (27 units upper division) including the core curriculum; the remaining 39 units include the following specified 20 units from Communication and 19 units from Art:
COMM 215, 237, 238, 315, and 338 or 339
ARTS 194B, 194C, 248, 255, 344, 345
Required Cognate: ARTS 115, prerequisite for ARTS 116 and ARTS 248
Recommended: COMM 494 (4), Internship (4)
Theory
62 units total (28 units upper division) including
The Department of English and Communication recognizes that communication, on both the personal and social levels, is the foundation of human interaction. Our mission is to understand ourselves and our world more fully by returning again and again to those linguistic forms which have continually shaped and reshaped us, which define and limit us and then wonderfully set us free--recast in new forms. We take language seriously as a tool of self- and social-understanding, as a means of entry into the life and responsibilities as the adult, the church member, and the citizen, as a means to professional advancement, yet
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