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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended to help international students improve their speaking and listening skills in public presentation settings, small group meetings, interviews, and conversations with Americans. Special emphasis is placed on appropriate choice and use of words, pronunciation, questioning, and other conversational techniques. This course is combined with CCM 270. Prerequisites: TOEFL 180 CBT/510 PBT/64 iBT, ESL 151/152/153/154 (full sequence), or instructor approval. 2 crs.
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This course is intended to help international students improve their speaking and listening skills in public presentation settings, small group meetings, interviews, and conversations with Americans. Special emphasis is placed on understanding U.S. speakers, problem solving within a group, and the essentials of message design and delivery. In-class activities include lecture with group discussion, role-playing, and delivery of various oral presentations. This course is combined with CCM 170. Prerequisites: TOEFL 180 CBT/510 PBT/64 iBT, ESL 151/152/153/154 (full sequence), or instructor approval. 2 crs.
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Students will increase effectiveness in both personal and professional interaction through developing one's interpersonal communication skills. The course focuses on awareness and adaptation, social roles, conflict management, and systems of relating. Meets LAC outcome: HCC5. 3 crs.
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Careful and discriminating listening is essential to effective communication. In this course, students examine the effects of listening style on personal relationships and public interaction. Students will assess listening strengths and weaknesses, and work to improve listening proficiency through in-class exercises and other activities. Meets LAC outcome: LLC1. 3 crs.
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This course explores the nonverbal messages that are intrinsic to interpersonal and public communication settings. Students increase awareness of their body language as well as their understanding of concepts and principles of nonverbal communication. Meets LAC outcome: HCC2. 3 crs.
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A person's sense of self inescapably influences the degree of success experienced when communicating with others. One's feeling of self-worth is closely linked to motivation, aspiration, and achievement. Students examine perspectives on self-esteem, review methods of enhancing personal pride, and explore approaches to communicating self-esteem in personal and professional contexts. Meets LAC outcome: HCC2. 3 crs.
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This course focuses on family of origin-where beliefs, attitudes, and communication styles are learned. Values and norms that originate in the family of origin, taken into adult life, affect relationships at home and work. Students focus on their own families of origin to gain insights into the formation of their communication habits and preferences. Meets LAC outcome: HCC2. 3 crs.
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The capacity to communicate affirmation to others is critical to the development of individual self-esteem, nurturing relationships, and organizational excellence. Through affirming messages people communicate acceptance, respect, appreciation, caring, love, and intimacy. This course will examine verbal and nonverbal strokes, listening, and touch. Selected research will focus on the effects of these messages, or lack thereof, on children, primary relationships, and employee satisfaction within organizations. Meets LAC outcome: HCC2. 3 crs.
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Illness is a message that communication has broken down on a cellular, personal, or community level. Developing effective intrapersonal and interpersonal communication is essential to establishing health. Students learn practical techniques to diagnose their own state of health and nurture wellness on a physical, emotional, and spiritual level. 3 crs.
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The ways persons choose to communicate with friends, family, and colleagues can have the potential to harm or heal. This course explores communication techniques to help others find greater health in mind, body, and spirit. Students discover and develop their own healing skills and learn how to apply them to others in their lives. 3 crs.
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