You are in the official 2000-2001 General Catalog
for California State University, Fresno.
You are in the official 2000-2001 General Catalog
for California State University, Fresno.
M.A. in Communication
Minor in Communication
Single Subject
Teaching Credential in English/Speech
Communication Skills for Professionals
Certificate
Vincent L. Bloom, Chair
Katherine L. Adams, Melanie M. Bloom, Hal W. Bochin, John A. Cagle, Carl
W. Carmichael, Connie J. Conlee, George E. Diestel, Daniel S. Fox, Douglas
Fraleigh, L. Ralph Hennings, Scott D. Moore, Robert G. Powell, David F.
Quadro, Kathleen M. Torrens, W. Richard Ullmann
Our aim is to prepare you to compete in, understand, and provide leadership
in a communication-oriented society. We offer a balance of humanistic and
scientific instruction in communication skills people need to function effectively
in teaching, business, law, the communication professions, public service
and administration, the ministry, public relations, politics, and management.
You have an opportunity to explore the full range of human communication.
Our major and minor are well grounded in interpersonal skills, problem-solving
and decision-making methods, group and organizational leadership, and intercultural
interaction. We study issues such as how we perceive events, express ourselves
verbally and nonverbally, and how communication influences human behavior
and social change. We develop competence in oral and written communication,
statistics and research methods (including using computers), and how to
employ these skills in specific career areas.
The Communication Skills for Professionals Certificate program recognizes
development in such areas as presentational speaking, problem solving and
decision making, leadership, and interpersonal communication.
Our program offers a variety of exciting activities to enrich your educational
experience. We have a fine intercollegiate forensics program, which includes
the Professional Communication Association, and a national communication
conference each spring that brings scholars and students from around the
country.
We offer you personalized advising. Our major builds on a sound core of foundation courses and is completed by courses selected to meet your needs and career objectives. Our major requirements are flexible and easily integrated into a host of minors. We think your choice of an adviser is an important decision, and we encourage our students to pick their own adviser.
In the new millennium, a degree in communication opens a great number
of career doors. Increasingly, we see a wide variety of job descriptions
across professional disciplines which list competence in communication as
the highest priority. An essential goal for us is to help you develop as
a competent communicator.
In addition, we try to provide an educational base for our majors and minors
for specific careers requiring competencies in oral and written communication
and in interpersonal and managerial situations.
Communication graduates are employed as public relations consultants, personnel
managers, political campaign directors, management analysts, teachers, counselors,
lawyers, ministers, human resource specialists, and marketing representatives.
We offer students a discipline widely suited to today's uncertain job market.
National placement studies reveal that communication majors are finding
jobs with reasonably high job satisfaction and above average pay rates,
and that their rate of promotion is significantly faster.
The pursuit of a career is of great concern to students today, but it is
important to recognize that the quality of your education will determine
your success in life as well as how to make a living. More than half of
college graduates do not enter fields directly tied to their majors.
As you begin making decisions about your life and what you want to do with
it, remember that we will be happy for you to join us in the most exciting
and fundamental discipline of all -- the study of human communication.
