Public Relations
Public Relations Degrees From Oklahoma City Community College
In public relations, image is everything – and we want to make you look good.
Do you like making other people look good? If so, you should pursue an associate degree in public relations at Oklahoma City Community College.
In this top degree program, you’ll learn about the management of information techniques used to establish and maintain a positive public image for an individual, product, cause or company.
To get your message out, you’ll learn radio, television and multimedia techniques, how to write and speak effectively and the advertising and marketing options open to you for your future public relations campaigns. The importance of communications during crises is also an invaluable skill you will learn from the OCCC PR degree
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Public relations specialists work as advocates for a multitude of small and large businesses, corporations, nonprofit associations, universities, hospitals and other organizations and institutions.
Their primary role is to create and maintain positive relationships with the public.
At Oklahoma City Community College, you will have access to public relations professors and instructors who have worked extensively in the field and have continually kept up with nationwide and worldwide trends in marketing and public relations.
They are eager to share their network of public relations professionals with you.
Oklahoma City Community College offers students interested in this career field an associate degree in arts in public relations: Graduates can transfer to a four-year college or university and prepare to enter a career in teaching, broadcasting and advertising or as a consultant, public relations practitioner, communications or media specialist.
Public Relations Classes at Oklahoma City Community College
At OCCC, you’ll build a strong public relations foundation as you study:
- Interpersonal Communications
- Audio Production
- News Writing
- Introduction to Public Speaking
- Principles of Public Relations
- Digital Photography I
- Image Editing: Photoshop I
- Video Production
- Humanities Electives
Visit OCCC’s online course catalog for full details on your public relations degree. You can also check the current community college class schedule for evening and online classes available in this academic program.
Julie Corff
Professor of Speech Communication, Program Coordinator
I have taught for 22 years Communication courses, trained and consulted with businesses in communication such as Unysis, Mercy Hospital, McCaleb Highland Homes, Liberty Bank, Federal Transfer Department, etc... I have taught at UCO, OSU, OSU-OKC, OCCC full time going on 7 years. I was asked to speak and teach at Harvard University as well. My heart is to make a difference in the lives of my OCCC students!
Gwin Faulconer-Lippert
Professor of Mass Media Communications
M.A., University of Oklahoma B.A., University of Oklahoma
Sue Hinton
Professor of Journalism and English
Sue Brewster Hinton has taught journalism at Oklahoma City Community College since 1977 and has been the faculty adviser of the award-winning student newspaper since 1978. She has mentored hundreds of journalism students, who remember her classes for the news stories they wrote about murder trials and public meetings. She was the first recipient of OCCC’s President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1991 and was named Outstanding Journalism Educator in 1994 by Women in Communications Inc. She was named to the Oklahoma Journalism Hall of Fame in 2009. She began her teaching career as an English professor at OCCC in 1972, when the college opened its doors. She has worked for The Oklahoman, the Norman Transcript and the Lawton (Okla.) Morning Press. Her bachelor’s and master’s degrees are both in English from the University of Oklahoma. She was born in 1949 in Elk City and grew up in nearby Hammon, Oklahoma.
In our increasingly competitive business world, the demand for highly skilled and trained public relations specialists is growing. With an associate degree in public relations, and after completing a bachelor’s degree at a four-year university, you could become a:
- Media specialist
- Communications specialist
- Public relations specialist
These specialists serve as advocates for clients seeking to build and maintain positive relationships with the public. Clients include businesses, nonprofit associations, universities, hospitals, and other organizations.
As companies and organizations continue to recognize the link between good public relations and their success, they increasingly rely on public relations specialists for advice on the strategy and policy of their communications.
Job opportunities for public relations specialists are expected to increase in all types and sizes of businesses, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Labor.
