Communications

Curriculum Abbreviations

• CL – Number of lecture/classroom hours per week for the course
• LAB – Number of simulation laboratory, laboratory or clinical hours per week for the course
• CR – Number of credit hours for the course

First Year

Second Year

¹ANTH, ECON, HIST, POLS, PSYC, or SOCI prefix (excluding HIST 104C and HIST 105C) are strongly recommended.

²ENGL 102C Intro to Literature, ENGL 121C Film Studies, or foreign language

³Excluding BIOL 100C, CHEM 100C, and PHYS 100C

Communications

Digital

Mindful

Sports

Visual Arts

This program seeks to guide and develop students into becoming ethical, hard-working, and thoughtful contributors in their personal lives, careers, and society. Accordingly, the program will develop students’ abilities to:

• Exemplify high ethical standards in personal and professional communication.
• Participate in discussions about cultural diversity.
• Communicate through individual and group presentations and speeches and participate in a symposium.
• Effectively employ communications and social media tools.
• Assess the dynamics of interpersonal communication and conflict management involving personal and business relationships.
• Develop a communication plan to enact during a crisis within an organization and then reflect and revise communication strategies used during the crisis.

Communications skills are needed across industries and disciplines, such as social media, media, broadcasting, journalism, photography, business, public relations, travel and tourism, sales, advising, law, health, human services, education, and ministry. Graduates can enter into the following professions (not an inclusive list):

• Radio and TV stations broadcaster
• Newspaper and magazine writer/editor
• Student and athlete advising
• Advertising/marketing/social media developer

The communication skills derived from the degree can help students succeed in corporate settings or in organizations involving communications, media, broadcasting, journalism, photography, business, public relations, politics, law, health, human services, education, and ministry.

NHTI has developed excellent practicum opportunities for our students to foster hands-on learning while simultaneously receiving credit. The college’s first priority must be to ensure that patients/clients/children/families are not placed in jeopardy by students during learning experiences. Therefore, students in internship, externship, practicum, service learning, and clinical experiences must demonstrate sufficient emotional stability to withstand the stresses, uncertainties and changing circumstances that characterize patient/client/child/family responsibilities. Further, the student is expected to have the emotional stability required to exercise sound judgment, accept direction and guidance from a supervisor or faculty member, and establish rapport and maintain sensitive interpersonal relationships and confidentiality with employees, customers, and/or patients/clients/children and their families.