|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of how communication is used in everyday life to create, negotiate, and resolve interpersonal and organizational conflict. Specific topics include historical and contemporary communication conflict management theories, conflict styles, impact of gender and culture on conflict communication, listening, bullying and difficult people, collaboration, mediation, and reconciliation. Contexts of conflict will include intimate relationships, family, social media, and workplace settings. Overall, this course prepares students to critique existing social structures that create conflictual situations and use communication choices to make conflict more productive in their personal and professional lives.
-
3.00 Credits
This class allows students an opportunity to discover, through participation in small groups, how to negotiate membership, resolve conflict, and maintain order through a variety of means and in a variety of venues. The academic material will be accompanied by practical, prescriptive guidance to help students become more productive members and/or leaders of small groups.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines historical and contemporary theories, principles, and communicative practices of persuasive messages. As persuasion is a part of our personal, organizational, and public lives, students will understand the process of persuasion, practice strategies of ethical and effective persuasion, and analyze persuasive discourse in various oral, written, and mediated contexts. Students will learn how to become responsible citizens by examining persuasive messages in our society and providing recommendations for ethical communication. [Core Curriculum Goal Area(s) 5 & 9]
-
3.00 Credits
A course proposed for inclusion in the University curriculum. May not be offered more than two times as an experimental course.
-
3.00 Credits
As a capstone, this course provides students an opportunity to reflect and act upon their communication and academic experiences through critical thinking and experiential opportunities. Communication choices have the power to influence social reality, which impacts the communities in which we live. As communication scholars and engaged citizens, students will examine perspectives of difference in gender, race, social class, ability, sexuality, and age to uncover and challenge social injustices. Overall, the goal of this course is to embrace differences and use communication for framing public discourse toward the betterment of our communities. Prerequisite: COMM 2000.
-
3.00 Credits
The advanced course in public presentation provides students with an opportunity to enhance understanding and application of public speaking techniques, theories, and perspectives. Additionally, the primary goal of this class is to improve practical communication skills through in-class activities and ongoing assignments. Advanced Public Speaking will help students gain experience in formal speaking situations. Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or instructor consent.
-
3.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide students with increased knowledge and communication competencies in a business setting. The course is divided into three sections, which allows students to analyze data and present recommendations to a simulated investing business committee. Students will execute higher-level excel functions, produce professional business correspondence based on excel data, and prepare and deliver individual and group presentations applicable to their findings. Overall, this course emphasizes the importance of professional communication used in business settings.
-
3.00 Credits
In-depth study of communication topics that reflect relational, organizational, societal, or cultural issues. May be retaken multiple times with different topic subtitles. Might not be offered every year. Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or instructor consent.
-
3.00 Credits
Arranged Individual Study.
-
1.00 - 2.00 Credits
Directed Independent Study | Teaching Associate
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|