The study of Communication and Leadership focuses on understanding why and how communication processes succeed or fail. It provides insight into the complex relationship between leadership and communication in areas such as building and bridging networks of relationships, communicating expectations and goals, and motivating and listening.
- This program blends functional knowledge and analytical skills with the ability to interact with others, understand them, interpret their behavior, and communicate effectively.
- It provides persons working in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors with the opportunity to learn how to become leaders.
- Graduates of this program will gain knowledge and understanding of personal leadership behaviors to lead effectively in teams and other organizational contexts.
- The MS in Communication and Leadership is uniquely positioned to make more effective and more human leaders in the new millennium.
Dr. Rosanne Hartman joined the faculty in the Department of Communication Studies in 2005 as the Graduate Director of the Communication and Leadership program. Dr. Hartman received her Ph.D. from SUNY at Buffalo in 1991 specializing in the area of organizational communication with a minor concentration in interpersonal communication.