Strategic Communication

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce students to the planning, coordination, collaboration, and management needed to create a fully-fledged communication strategy that will deliver a message to achieve the desired effect for any organization or individual. Students will cover many aspects of strategic communication management: planning and analysis, considering audience demographics data analytics, incorporating input from all decision makers, media and platforms to be used, timeline, creating feedback loops, legal and compliance approval, implementation, and assessment of communication effectiveness and future considerations. Practical business skills, marketing, navigating organizational politics, intercultural communication, information flow, and data analytics will also be covered on during this course. (Prerequisite: COMM300)