The Bachelor of Science in Organizational Communication at the University of Portland offers you a specialized, interdisciplinary education focused on the professional aptitudes essential for success in workplace and community roles. This program is designed for students eager to understand and practice effective, ethical communication within modern organizations, exploring how communication sustains and transforms relational, community, and cultural environments. You will gain critical insights into the constitutive role of communication in organizing and develop competencies in ethical collaboration and leadership, preparing you for diverse contemporary contexts.
You will study this undergraduate degree full-time on campus over four years, engaging with coursework that partners with the Pamplin School of Business to explain key concepts in human and technical organizational communication systems. Your learning will encompass required courses like Introduction to Communication Studies and Organizational Communication: From Corporations to Social Movements, alongside research methods and upper-division business and communication electives. In your senior year, you will complete a capstone project or communication internship practicum, graduating with applied understanding and the ability to coordinate and manage organizational work, ready for specialized graduate study or professional roles.