Program Overview

Program Overview

The University of Kansas offers a Graduate Certificate in Professional Workplace Communication, a 4-course, 12 credit hour program that focuses on the human side of organizations and helps facilitate career success. This program teaches students how to craft messages, share information, and build relationships in ways that create greater understanding, both internally and externally.

Program Details

• The program is designed to take students beyond the numbers to understand what makes organizations tick – the everyday communication practices that are often taken for granted.
• It explores the dimension of any workplace that brings people and ideas together, facilitating effective decision-making, team-building, problem-solving, and crisis-resolution practices.
• All courses for KU's Professional Workplace Communication Certificate are offered online in synchronous or asynchronous formats.

Application Process

• Current KU graduate students and prospective KU graduate students may apply for the graduate certificate.
• An applicant seeking to pursue graduate study may be admitted as either a degree-seeking or non-degree seeking student.
• Policies and procedures of Graduate Studies govern the process of Graduate admission.
• Non-native speakers of English must meet English proficiency requirements.

Application Requirements

• Official transcript from the institution where the bachelor's degree (or equivalent) was earned
• Resume
• Statement of Purpose
• Letter of Recommendation

Course List

Learning Outcomes

• Employ workplace communication theories, perspectives, principles, and concepts.
• Apply ethical workplace communication principles and practices.
• Create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
• Evaluate and implement workplace communication scholarship.