Sep 29, 2024  
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Graduate Catalog

Strategic Communication, Certificate (online)


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This certificate directly addresses the needs of communication professionals who wish to bolster their credentials and expand their knowledge across the shared, earned, owned and paid professional communication portfolio. Students take coursework that provides them up-to-date information about public relations, advertising and social media, enhancing their professional value and opening the door to further study.

Learning Outcomes

  • Explain the discipline of strategic communication, including its relevant history and theories;
  • Create consolidated and individual strategic communication/social media plans and campaigns;
  • Analyze and evaluate how strategic communication contributes to organizational success; and
  • Analyze how the components of strategic communication apply to issues and problems in organizational life.

Admission Requirements

  • You are not required to submit scores from the Graduate Record Examination (GRE)
  • Two Letters of Recommendation
  • Statement of Purpose

Application Requirements

Admissions Categories and Grade Point Average Requirements

International Application Information

Degree Requirements

Curriculum Requirements


Additional Requirements


  • Minimum 3.0 graduate cumulative grade point average
  • All requirements must be completed within six years from the end of the earliest course used to fulfill certificate requirements.

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