Instructional Communication for Educators, Certificate

This certificate program is intended for high school teachers seeking to teach dual-credit speech and communication courses under the College Credit Plus program. Students will take a combination of core courses and electives, learning to apply communication theory in their classrooms. The program will be available online as well as face-to-face, providing a flexible option for full-time high school teachers.

Requirements

Required Core Courses6
COMM:600Introduction to Graduate Study in Communication
COMM:608Communication Pedagogy
Theory Courses (Choose three credits from the following)3
COMM:623Applied Communication Theory
COMM:624Survey of Communication Theory
COMM:625Theories of Mass Communication
Electives (Choose nine credits from the following)9
COMM:510Crisis Communication
COMM:531Risk Communication
COMM:538Health Communication
COMM:540Strategic Social Media
COMM:541Media Entrepreneurship
COMM:542Social Media Metrics and Analytics
COMM:550Sport Communication
COMM:560Science Communication
COMM:571Theories of Rhetoric
COMM:601Mixed Methods of Communication Research
COMM:602Qualitative Methods in Communication
COMM:603Quantitative Methods in Communication
COMM:606Communication Problems in the Basic Speech Course
COMM:630Communication in Organizations
COMM:637Training Methods in Communication
COMM:645Intercultural Communication Theory
COMM:670Communication Criticism
COMM:691Advanced Communication Studies
Total Hours18