Communication Degrees Online

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Cost of Attendance

Hartwick College establishes a student budget that includes tuition, fees, room, board, and miscellaneous expenses (books, transportation, and additional sundries). The total amount allocated for miscellaneous expenses does not appear on your billing statement but is calculated into the student budget for the purpose of establishing need and awarding aid.

Students Entering 2009-10 Academic Year
Tuition
$32,550
Other Fees (Orientation, Activity, Health, Pine Lake, Campus Card)
1,080

Room (standard double)
4,700

Board (unlimited meal plan)
4,375

Miscellaneous Expenses*
1,400

Total
$44,105

* Books $700; travel,$300; other $400

Human life and social organization are totally dependent on communication. In this program, we give you an advanced understanding of how communication works and what factors influence it. In the program, we provide facts and understanding of the principles behind communication in the following specialized courses:

interpersonal communication (how we communicate with friends and enemies)
communication, activity and organization
intercultural communication part I, II and III
communication among professionals part I and II
communicative leadership
practical training (through internship in an organization)
communication and communication technology
multimodal communication
degree project

Our program in communication is a basis, for the following kind of jobs; management in business and public administration consultancy within communication, economy and law accounting, human relations and resources, education and training journalists, information specialists, teachers, priests (clergy) and psychologists

Our Department offers a wide variety of classes related to the field of Speech Communication, including Public Speaking, Small Group Discussion, Argumentation and Debate, Oral Interpretation of Literature, and Interpersonal Communication.

After expertise in the discipline, employers list good oral communication skills as their first requirement in hiring. It doesn’t matter how much you know if you can’t tell anyone! A major or minor in speech communication can greatly enhance your marketability. Additionally the Speech Communication Department offers a 9-unit certificate of completion in Communication.

Mason’s communication degree is not a sit-back-and-listen program. As a communication major, you will produce videos, public relations plans, television programs, and websites. You will present your results to top Washington, D.C., area professionals and at communication conferences.

Through these activities, you will develop skills that are not only enriching to you personally, but highly valued by prospective employers and graduate schools.

You will take courses in public speaking, media production and criticism, public relations, journalism, intercultural communication, health communication, and political communication. You will study with faculty who are known for creating opportunities for you to apply your knowledge and skills in classes and in co-curricular activities.

COMMUNICATION EDUCATION
Communication educators are hired at all educational levels—elementary and secondary schools,
community colleges, colleges and universities. Most communication faculty members are found at the
collegiate level.

To teach communication in an elementary or secondary school you need to obtain certification. Each state
has its own regulations, but almost all require a minimum of a bachelor’s degree in the field you will be
teaching.

Becoming an instructor at the college level usually requires a doctoral degree, though some community
colleges will hire a candidate with a master’s degree. Community colleges tend to prefer graduates who
have a general communication degree so they can teach a variety of courses. Four-year institutions,
especially research and graduate level universities, prefer candidates trained in a specific area, such as
organizational communication, rhetoric and public address, or interpersonal communication.

One question often asked by students is, “What are the job opportunities at the college level for teaching
communication?” According to a study, “more than 80 percent of those institutions currently advertising
for new faculty to fill communication positions prefer or demand the Ph.D. However, only half the number
needed to fill those vacancies will be available in the years ahead. These trends will be more severely
felt in the communications discipline than in many other academic fields, because Ph.D. production in
communication per undergraduate to be served has been declining steadily for a number of years.”20
Careers in communication education include: language arts coordinator, high school speech teacher,
forensics/debate coach, drama director, college or university professor, and speech communication
department chairperson.

Communication subjects that can enhance a career in communication education include: oral
communication, public speaking, interpersonal communication, introduction to media systems,
communication theory, research and methodology in communication, communication in the classroom,
cross-cultural communication, teaching the language arts, linguistics, sociolinguistics, developmental
communication, nonverbal communication, small group communication, oral interpretation and
performance studies, forensics, family communication, conflict resolution, argumentation, ethics of
communication, rhetorical theory and criticism, listening, discussion, and persuasion.

This program emphasizes the development of communication skills, the ability to critically analyze information, the judgment to make ethical decisions, and also importantly, builds strong cultural foundations in students so they may compete successfully in a global market.

UPC’s journalism program has the distinction of becoming the first higher education institution in Peru to earn accreditation from the Consejo Latinoamericano de Acreditacion de las Educacion en Periodismo. (CLAEP). The program has five specialties: journalistic applications (information, opinion, investigation and interpretation); management; design infographics and multimedia; general and journalistic photography; and literary journalism.

Graduates are prepared to:
Analyze and interpret worldwide events from a responsible and critical point of view.
Investigate and develop diverse sources in order to assure the validity and reliability of information that will guide public opinion.
Plan, design and evaluate a wide range and style of journalistic projects.
Master computer graphics and written communication techniques in order to present the highest quality journalistic product.
Skillfully employ the diverse journalistic languages (oral, written, visual and graphic), as well as the different narrative models (types of stories) for communicating information — whether through the press, television, radio or Internet.
Integrate high technology processes and interactivity in communication.

Tuition fees NT$ 16000
Incidentals NT$ 10230
Internet fees NT$ 200
Student insurance fees NT$ 134
Accommodation fees NT$ 8000
Total amount NT$31585 or so
Extra-insurance fees for overseas Chinese students.

Certificate in Corporate Written Communication

This professional writing program focuses on courses which will enhance communication skills at the workplace. The Certificate in Corporate Written Communication is comprised of three graduate courses selected from an existing menu of courses already offered as part of the Master of Science in Written Communication Degree. The three-course sequence can serve as a gateway to the Master’s Degree, since graduate students are allowed to take three courses before declaring themselves as part of the Master’s Degree Program. The entrance requirements for the Certificate are the same as the entrance requirements for the Master’s in Written Communications. If they choose to continue beyond the Certificate, students may do so seamlessly, without any additional testing or application requirements.

Morehead State University’s Department of Communication & Theatre has a long tradition in graduate work in Communication and Theatre. This is a general communication degree that focuses on theoretical principles of communication rather than practical application. The program requires 30 hours of course work with two options, thesis or non-thesis. There are core classes required of all students and electives courses in rhetoric, organizational and interpersonal communication, electronic media, journalism, and advertising/public relations. Students in consultation with their advisors develop a program of study that meets their individual goals.

Students who complete this program have gone on to do additional graduate work in doctoral programs, to a career teaching in community colleges and secondary schools, and to successful careers in various aspects of business. Students have the opportunity to develop personal relationships with professors and class sizes average about 12-14 students. We are in the process of making enough of our classes available via distance learning for students to complete the program.