Leadership in Communication
In addition to the Core Courses, students completing the Organizational Leadership program with a concentration in Communication must complete 12 credts in the concentration.
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COMM 560 Communication Issues for Leaders (3 credits)
This course focuses on analysis of contemporary issues that highlight the necessity of effective communication for those in a leadership position. Through analysis and discussion of historical and current challenges faced by organizations, students will learn to recognize how effective leaders apply successful communication strategies. Case studies will also explore the effect that poor communication choices have had on organizations. Emphasis will be placed on discussion, research, and presentation.
COMM 563 Digital Media Communication (3 credits)
This course will look at the digital technologies that make up the new world of digital convergence. The course will examine the effects of digital media convergence on social life, ethics, industry, and local and global communities through a variety of theories and paradigms. This course will also help students develop necessary digital media production skills and use them critically to solve media development problems.
COMM 564 Communication and Diversity in the Workplace (3 credits)
The culture of work, like society, is multicultural. More than ever, today’s organizational leaders, including CEOs, managers and supervisors, must understand how to use diversity and cultural communication principles and strategies to effectively nurture and promote a culturally diverse workforce. This course helps organizational leaders understand how gender, ethnic, religious, and other social and cultural differences affect the workplace, and how to effectively harness those differences towards maintaining a workplace that promotes good employee relationship, and ultimately, good productivity for the organization.
COMM 565 Relational Communication: Interpersonal, Group, and Intercultural Dynamics (3 credits)
This course will introduce students in the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) program to seminal and contemporary research in the area of relational communication. Broken down into three modules, the curriculum will be divided among the topics of Interpersonal Communication, Group Communication, and Intercultural Communication. In the first, emphasis will be placed upon theories of human communication, verbal and nonverbal communication, gender, and conflict. The second module will explore various elements of group communication, including leadership and followership, roles, status, power and problem solving and decision making. The third module will introduce students to the study of intercultural communication, with its focus on the relationship between culture and communication.
Degree Completion Requirements
- Comply with the general requirements concerning graduate study
- Enroll in graduate study at Rider for no fewer than two academic semesters or the equivalent thereof
- Complete at least 36-39 semester hours of graduate credit
- Complete an internship/practicum unless admitted with a year of leadership experience in the concentration area
- Successfully pass a written comprehensive examination
- Maintain a grade point average of B (3.0) or better for work submitted for the Master degree
- Complete the program within six years of the date the student enrolled in his/her first course unless an extension is approved by the Department of Graduate Education, Leadership, and Counseling
- Satisfy all requirements for matriculated status. Students may apply for matriculation when they have completed 9-15 credits in the program. Applicants for matriculation will be considered based on academic progress and demonstration of professionalism
