Public Relations

Courses

You’ll learn to create meaningful campaigns in real-world settings in your courses. Here are a couple experiences to look forward to.

Public Relations Campaigns

Develop and pitch a proposal for a local nonprofit organization, learning experientially about campaign preparation and execution.

Public Relations for Nonprofits

Explore the tools nonprofit organizations use to create and shape goals for public support.

Student work

Indiana Donor Network public relations campaign

Students in one section of the fall 2018 Public Relations Campaigns class developed a proposed campaign for the Indiana Donor Network, a statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to saving and enhancing the quality of life through organ, tissue and eye donation and transplantation.

The campaign, which seeks to encourage more Hoosiers to become donors, includes qualitative and quantitative research, followed by development of communications objectives, strategies, tactics, schedules, budgets and measurement metrics.

Faculty

Learn from faculty members who are experienced practitioners — including former executives at international firms — and internationally ranked researchers across specialties such as international communication, corporate communication, crisis communication, public activism and diplomacy, social media and communication effectiveness, and stakeholder communications.

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Careers

In this concentration, you’ll learn how to develop a campaign and manage a crisis, as well as the theory behind the discipline. You’ll graduate prepared for a public relations career at a corporation, government agency or nonprofit organization in a variety of positions, such as media specialist, communications director or marketing strategist.

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Christine Spasoff

I learned so much from getting involved in various campus organizations and student media, which has shaped me into the professional I am today.

Christine Spasoff, BAJ’14, account supervisor at Spectrum Science Communications