Instructional Communication for Educators, Certificate

This certificate fulfills the State of Ohio regulation requiring a minimum of 18 graduate credit hours within a discipline in order to teach the discipline at the high school level. This pedagogical certificate program equips graduate students to teach communication courses at the high school and college level. Students will take a combination of core courses and electives, learning to apply communication theory and skills in their classrooms.

Requirements

Required Core Courses6
COMM 608Communication Pedagogy
COMM 623Applied Communication Theory
Electives (Choose twelve credits of any graduate course in Communication)12
COMM 510Crisis Communication
COMM 516Social Media Content Creation
COMM 517Social Media Platforms
COMM 531Risk Communication
COMM 537Communication and Health Disparities
COMM 538Health Communication
COMM 540Strategic Social Media
COMM 542Social Media Metrics and Analytics
COMM 575Political Communication
COMM 541Social Media Entrepreneurship
COMM 601Applied Methods of Communication Research
COMM 630Communication in Organizations
COMM 691Advanced Communication Studies
Total Hours18