Doctor's degree Communication Organizational Communication - Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus

Doctor's degree Communication Organizational Communication from Arizona State University at the Tempe Campus is a Campus Ph.D Organizational Communication degree that prepares you for a Communications career. Organizational communication focuses on the conditions, impacts, and implications of communicative processes and systems for both public and private sector organizations. If the student has completed an appropriate master's degree , the PhD requires a minimum of 66 hours beyond the master's degree. Course work for a typical program of study is distributed as follows: required core courses (9 semester hours), area of concentration (33 semester hours), dissertation (COM 799) and research (COM 792) (24 semester hours) for a total of 66 hours (minimum). Up to 12 semester hours of research (COM 792) may be taken before admission to candidacy. Three interdisciplinary theory and methodology courses are required of all students entering the program. The required theory course is COM 604 Theory Construction in Communication. Students are required to take three semester hours of COM 792 R: Prospectus/Dissertation Practicum and three semester hours of COM 792 R: Seminar Assistant. In addition, students must take two of the three advanced methods courses, which consist of COM 607 Contemporary Rhetorical Methods, COM 608 Multivariate Statistical Analysis of Data in Communication, and COM 609 Advanced Qualitative Research Methods in Communication . The student is also required to demonstrate proficiency in research methods (statistics, computer languages, content analysis methods, participant observation, etc.) which, in the judgment of the supervisory committee, is needed for the student's dissertation research. Evidence of required proficiency may be demonstrated by established university examination procedures or by successful completion of a sequence of courses designated by the student's program committee. For students who have completed only the bachelor's degree before admission to the PhD program, a minimum of 90 hours of interdisciplinary graduate work is required for the program, including the same 66-hour requirement for students with the master's degree. The initial course work for students admitted with only a bachelor's degree is similar to the MA degree requirements in Communication except that no thesis is required. These requirements include a general overview of research in communication (COM 501), an overview of theories and models of communication (COM 504), a statistics course (COM 508), and electives from communication or other disciplines to total 24 hours of course work. The methods, theory, and statistics courses must be completed before beginning the required theory and methodology sequence for the PhD (i.e., they are prerequisites for the required courses). View more details on Arizona State University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Organizational Communication courses.