Singapore University of Social Sciences

Strategic Communication is the study of how organisation communicates to accomplish organisational and communication goals within itself and with its external stakeholders. Strategic communication involves communicating the best message using the most appropriate channels that will influence the opinions of key stakeholders such as employees, consumers, government, community, the media, and other stake holders. Strategic Communication will involve the use of public relations, advertising, persuasion, corporate identity, image repair and public relations advocacy. One of the unique features of this course is the industry linkages. Different industry partners will be invited to share strategic communication cases in their company or within their industry. The sharing session could consist of a panel of speakers from different industries. For the ECA, students could propose an area of communication within their own organisations that they have identified where strategic communication could be practised. The ECA will be an authentic proposal that they can submit to their supervisors in their companies. For the minority of students who may be in between jobs and are not attached to a company, they could opt for an industry-based scenario as a backdrop of their ECA.