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Lecture, four hours. Art and science of negotiation in securing agreements between independent parties. Theory and practice that underlies successful negotiation. Experiential course in which students learn broad array of negotiation skills, including identifying one's own (and others') communicationstyle, identifying and incorporating components of successful negotiation, and resolving conflict between parties. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Cognitive science exploration of structure and evolution of language and music and their relationships to communication, cognition, and culture. P/NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Focus on how human voice conveys information about identity of speakers, physical characteristics, personality, and emotional state, and on how listeners utilize this information to make judgments about speakers. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Examination of group communication from perspectives of evolutionary psychology, communications, and psycholinguistics. Topics include evolution of cooperation, ingroup and outgroup dynamics, gossip, music improvisation, and conversational behavior. P/ NP or letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. In recent years there has been sea change in broadcast news and public affairs programming. News was once packaged and presented to audiences in form of scripted narrative or story, but increasingly news is organized around spontaneous interactional encounters between some combination of journalists, public figures, and ordinary citizens. Examination of interactional forms, with emphasis on news interviews, presidential press conferences, and political speeches before live audiences, from standpoint of their historical development and consequences for journalism, political communication, and public sphere. Primary focus on inner workings of each form of talk - social norms and practices that organize participation and that distinguish forms of broadcast talk from one another and from ordinary conversation. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Exploration of issues related to management of conflict between major areas of world, with focus on historical background, perception gaps, and political context. Communication approaches based on nonviolence and management of moral conflict offered as alternatives to clash of civilizations. Letter grading.
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Lecture, four hours. Examination of current issues in interpersonal communication from perspectives of evolutionary psychology and biology. Topics include coevolution of signaler and receiver adaptations, nonverbal communication, courtship behavior, miscommunication between sexes, implied language use, and deception. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Entertainment is significant component of both interpersonal and mass communication. Examination of evolutionary history, cognitive mechanisms, and social dimensions of play and entertainment, as well as their possible pedagogical effects. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Exploration of various aspects of online computer games that are becoming increasingly popular and technically sophisticated, with focus on what people learn from games, how they learn it, and whether learning is potentially useful. Letter grading.
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Lecture, three hours. Study of cultural factors as they affect quality and processes of interpersonal communication; exercises in participation, analysis, and criticism of interethnic and interracial communications in small group configuration. P/NP or letter grading.
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