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COMM 487WAdvanced Telecommunications Management and Leadership

3 credits · Communications · Penn State

Strategic management, leadership and ethics issues including marketing, financing, entrepreneurship, and innovation. COMM 487 Advanced Telecommunications Management and Leadership (3) This senior-level capstone course discusses a range of strategic management, leadership and ethics issues in telecommunications and media firms. Learning objectives include creative problem-solving, critical thinking and writing, basic financial literacy and management considerations in ethics, globalization, diversity and free speech. Specific areas of emphasis include marketing, programming, customer service, technology adoption, finance and strategic planning. Broadly, the aim is the honing of critical and creative problem solving skills and the enhancement of collaboration and communication skills.The course also stresses the fiduciary and social responsibilities that adhere to the telecommunication manager's role.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “COMM 180 and COMM 280 and COMM 380 or permission of the program.”

Where it fits

Where it sits in degree plans

Suggested plans most often put it in Year 4 · Spring (1 program).

One of the options in (1)

  • Telecommunications and Media Industries, B.A.