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Apr 27, 2024
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COMS 4501 - Communication & Nonproft Organizing
This course explores how membership is created, lived, and understood in non-profit organizations. We also discuss the unique communication challenges and opportunities in the non-profit sector. Possible topics include: paid vs. unpaid labor, socialization, volunteer management, interorganizational collaboration, identification, corporatization of the nonprofit, and professionalism, amongst others.
Requisites: (COMS 2500 or COMS major) and (Jr or Sr)
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to define and critique traditional and contemporary models of organizational membership
- Students will be able to apply knowledge learned in the course on volunteers, volunteerism, and nonprofits organizations
- Students will be able to understand the operations of local nonprofits
- Students will be able to apply knowledge of effective group discussion in an engaged learning environment
- Students will be able to analyze and critique scholarly journal articles
- Students will be able to create a seminar paper or creative project that details a volunteer experience or research/write a scholarly paper on a voluntary context, concept, or construct
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