Bachelor of Science Degree in Communication - Corporate and Public Relations Concentration

The concentration in Corporate and Public Relations covers a broad range of activities that help an organization and its publics communicate with one another. The field includes public relations, media relations, financial writing, publication design, employee and customer communication, desktop publishing, and government relations. The required courses for both the BS degree in Corporate and Public Relations are similar, however, the BS requires specific science and math sequences, as well as courses in psychology, history, political science and economics. The BS degree does not require a foreign language component. Skills in this field run the gamut from written to spoken to visual communication. A corporate communication specialist might be called on to write articles for an in-house newsletter, to research and write an annual report to shareholders, to publicize a special event, to write a speech for an executive, to plan a press conference, to develop a media plan for an organization, or to script a video for an employee orientation session.