Aug 30, 2025

2025-2026 Undergraduate Catalog

CM 235 Organizational Cultures

(4 Credits)
This course is a survey of the communication practices and cultures in a variety of organizational settings. It is a study of the constitution of processes of cultures in group and institutional dynamics of organizations, with special emphasis on diversity in workplace democracy, corporate contexts, and structural and linguistics practices. Case studies are of organizational cultures, use of observation, interpretation, and analysis in reading and working with organizations. The course is a balanced consideration of various methodologies in the study of cultures to study organizations. Individual and group work is emphasized.