Degrees Offered

Graduate Certificate

Graduate Certificate

The IU Online Graduate Certificate in Communication Studies provides graduate-level instruction in communication strategies, practices, and techniques. It teaches practical communication skills needed in professional, academic, and personal contexts, such as presenting information, arguing a position, promoting a cause, presenting information via social media, designing targeted messages, and managing relations and conflicts.  

As a student in the program, you develop innovative strategies for teaching communication, employ effective and ethical communication practices, and apply critical perspectives to production and consumption of media messages.

Participating Campuses

IUPUI, IU East, IU Kokomo, IU Northwest, IU South Bend, and IU Southeast

Admissions 

To be accepted to this program, you must have a bachelor's degree and a 3.0 GPA or above on a 4.0 scale.

Certificate Requirements

The Graduate Certificate in Communication Studies requires completion of six course for 18 credits and provides graduate-level instruction in communication strategies, practices and techniques to students interested in obtaining advanced skills and knowledge.

1. Communication Pedagogy

Complete CMCL-C 545 Pedagogy in Communication and Culture (3 Cr).

2. Communication in Context

Complete three courses chosen from the following list (9 Cr):
COMM-C 510 Health Provider-Consumer Communication
COMM-C528 Group Communication And Organizations
COMM-C 544 Advanced Relational Communication
CMCL-C 500 Intro to Graduate Studies and Research
CMCL-C 550 Family Communication
CMCL-C 592 Advanced Health Communication
CMCL-C 593 Topics in Communication: approved topics
CMCL-C 594 Communication and Conflict Management in Organizations
CMCL-C 610 Identity and Difference
ENG-R 546 Rhetoric and Public Culture
JOUR-J 522 Political Communication
SPCH-S 502 Intro to Communication Theory
SPCH-S627 Studies in Cross Cultural Communication
SPCH-S633 Studies in Interpersonal Communication
SPCH-S640 Studies in Organizational Communication

3. Communication in Media

Complete one of the following three course (3 Cr)
CMCL-C 593 Topics in Communication: VT: Social Media and Communication
CMCL-C 602 Media, Terrorism, and Politics
CMCL-C 606 Media Criticism
CMCL-C 621 Social Media and Communication
COMM-C 530 Communication Criticism
COMM-C 531 Media Theory and Criticism

4. Communication Studies Elective

Complete an additional course selected from the courses listed above or an MLS approved alternative (3 Cr).