Communication Studies - Graduate Certificate in Communication Studies (CRT)

Offered at IU Southeast by School of Arts and Letters

Offered 100% online

The IU Online Graduate Certificate in Communication Studies provides graduate-level instruction in communication strategies, practices, and techniques. It teaches practical communication skills needed in professional, academic, and personal contexts, such as presenting information, arguing a position, promoting a cause, presenting information via social media, designing targeted messages, and managing relations and conflicts.

Students in the program develop innovative strategies for teaching communication, employ effective and ethical communication practices, and apply critical perspectives to the production and consumption of media messages.

Of Special Interest for Dual-Credit and Community College Instructors

This certificate meets the Higher Learning Commission’s (HLC’s) instructor qualification standards, which require dual-credit and community college instructors to hold a master’s degree in their area of instruction or a master’s degree in another discipline, plus a minimum of 18 credit hours of discipline-specific graduate coursework. This certificate provides the HLCs requisite number of discipline-specific graduate credits for those who already hold a master’s degree.