Strategic Legal and Management Communication Howard University

Do you want to become an expert in improving organizational culture and focusing on inclusion? A leader in managing a diverse and ever-changing workforce? Learn more about strategic communications majors. SLMC majors develop strong critical thinking, case writing and development, verbal and nonverbal communication, problem solving, research design and implementation. The Department of Strategy, Legal Communications and Management aims to prepare students for careers in advertising focused on developing persuasive messages to sell products, services or ideas. Students will be equipped with persuasive and informative methods to enhance the creation and development of messages in a variety of communication contexts, including digital media. The SLMC department was created by combining award-winning programs from Howard University`s two departments of journalism and radio, television and film, and film with the Department of Communications and Culture. The PR program was ranked by PR Week magazine as one of the top five programs in the United States. The advertising program has produced more African Americans in advertising than any other university in the world. The university`s first Marshall Scholar and the first Fulbright Scholar from the School of Communications were students in the Organizational Communication program. The Legal Communications program offers the Richard Parsons Scholarship.

Cox Media offers scholarships to students interested in media management and distribution. Focuses on management and leadership issues in media companies. Students will be equipped with persuasive and informative methods to enhance the creation and development of messages in a variety of communication contexts, including digital media. Do you want to be a social media guru, event planner or activation rock star, crisis manager (Olivia Pope style), PR influencer, or advertising architect for some of the world`s biggest brands? Would you like to gain hands-on experience in a student-run strategic communications company? Starting in August 2013, students in the Department of Strategy, Legal Communication and Management will acquire a Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus on Strategic Communication (Advertising and Public Relations), Legal Communication (Privilege and Policy), Management Communication (Media Management and Organizational Communication), or Interdisciplinary Studies (Building a Major Subject). The Department of Strategy, Legal Communication and Management aims to prepare students for careers and advanced studies in communication designed for strategic purposes such as public relations and special event planning, advertising and sales, non-profit and for-profit management, law and policy, organizational training and development, corporate communications, government relations, entrepreneurship, human resources, marketing communications and media management. SLMC majors develop strong critical thinking, case writing and development, verbal and nonverbal communication, problem solving, research design and implementation. Students will be equipped with persuasive and informative methods to enhance the creation and development of messages in a variety of communication contexts, including digital media. Legal and related issues in the field of communication such as constitutional privileges, law and freedom of expression. SLMC offers a minor for students interested in expanding their communication toolkit.

Contact us to find out more. Are you the next brilliant legal head, a dynamo in the courtroom? A significant change in social policy or a contribution to problems in the public sphere? Choose between SLMC 202 – Introduction to Communications Theory (online) (3crs) and MJFC 101 – Introduction to Mass Communications (3crs). New students and transferred students, welcome to the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication (SLMC). Here you will receive a world-class education from award-winning and internationally recognized faculty members who will provide you with pedagogical, scientific and professional skills that will lead you to change agents in the world. You`re welcome. Course from level 000 to 299 in the identified minor subject. The SLMC department is home to student advertising and public relations agency CapComm Lab; the NABEF Media Sales Institute, funded by the National Association of Broadcasters Education Foundation; and the MLK forensic program with award-winning mock debate and parliamentary debate teams. The department also sponsors the Tom Burrell Chapter of the American Advertising Federation and the D. Parke Gibson Chapter of the Public Society of America. **SLMC 490 is a prerequisite to SLMC 492 and cannot be taken at the same time. SLMC 321 Advertising Sales or SLMC 343 Programming. Explore human interaction in organizational contexts.

Focuses on developing and maintaining beneficial relationships between an organization and its audience. IMPORTANT: Unless otherwise agreed, SOC compulsory courses must be taken within the year indicated. SLMC 490 (cannot be taken at the same time as SLMC 490). Sociology Electives (options: courses under the SOCI Subject Code) The Cathy Hughes School of Communications Scholarship Program is designed to assist current students with the cost of attending Howard University. SLMC is also home to the fundamental Principles of the Word program – a general course requirement for all Howard University students – under the direction of Dr. Tia Tyree. Composition or writing courses (courses under the subject code ENGW) * Electives and minors are subject to availability. SLMC 323 Advertising Research and Marketing OR SLMC 311 Basic Public Relations Writing, Higher Level. Minor (courses at levels 000 to 299 in the identified minor subject) – The minor must be in economics.

SLMC 312 Advanced PR Writing or SLMC 323 Advertising Research. A major in Interdisciplinary Studies combines the core courses of the Cathy Hughes School of Communications with your own passions to develop an innovative curriculum designed by and for you.