Capstone Requirement

Putting your knowledge to work--that's what you'll do in your Capstone. Throughout core course requirements in your academic program, you will apply knowledge and demonstrate learning through assignments that match specific program learning goals in the Strategic Communication program. 

As a major, you will be asked to reflect on that collection of assignment outcomes in the designated capstone course, CMST 451 Rights and Responsibilities of Communication. Follow the guidance of Strategic Communication faculty and your major's academic advisor to make sure your Folio in Canvas properly tracks your academic progress in the Strategic Communication major as required.

Through the course of your studies, you should be able to do the following:

  1. Display public speaking competency: Exhibit impromptu and extemporaneous oral communication competency through the planning and delivery of formal public speeches and commentary that effectively and appropriately construct rhetorical responses for various purposes, contexts and audiences. 

  2. Reflect an understanding of how to engage others ethically with civility: Reflect an understanding of how to engage others with civility in response to diversity and potential conflicts among communicators to build and sustain relationships and achieve common-ground ethical agreement and constructive outcomes for common goals.

  3. Express and apply critical disciplinary knowledge: Identify and explain relevant theories to assess communication critically and analyze rhetoric ethically in personal, academic and professional contexts. 

  4. Demonstrate ability to support and facilitate strategic communication leadership: Demonstrate how to enact, support, and reflect on strategic communication leadership through the ability to persuade others and collaborate as a civil citizen communicator aware of and responsive to the historical moment, appropriate ethical response and organizational and community needs. 

  5. Navigate computer-mediated communication in organizational, public, and social contexts: Adapt mediated messages within the rapidly changing online communication environment to meet professional expectations while applying other Strategic Communication learning goal competencies.

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