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4.00 Credits
Examination of theory and practice for the improvement of communication with children (primarily grades K-6), regarding issues of child abuse (emotional, physical, sexual, and domestic violence). Professional and interpersonal contexts are addressed. Multiple communication issues in relationship to children and violence include: cultural values and beliefs, stereotypes, media representations, language use, nonverbal communication, power, control and conflict.
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Focuses on the study of families from a communication perspective; that is, how families create, maintain and reinforce patterns of interaction through daily living, story-telling and other habitual forms of communication. Course applies theoretical frameworks such as family systems theory, social construction theory and dialectical theory to issues of courtship and relational development, the changes in the life of families, and family roles.
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4.00 Credits
No course description available.
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4.00 Credits
A study of principles for effective interviewing with emphasis upon information-gathering, indepth interviewing. Examine interview structures, preparation of interview schedules, question phrasing, approaches to interviewer-interviewee relationship. Specific interview contexts will vary among employment, performance appraisal, helping, and focus group, and will be examined from both interviewer and interviewee perspectives.
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4.00 Credits
Applies important ethical theories to communication settings and problems, including aspects of interpersonal, group, organization, public, Internet and mass communication, showing how ethics relate to all communication events. Reveals how communication can either validate or undermine the basic humanity, dignity and value of others in the communication setting.
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
Builds upon the theories and issues discussed in the introductory course by including contemporary and classical literature on multicultural and intercultural communication. Identifies and analyzes politically constructed categories of race, age, class, gender in society against the backdrop of debates on multiculturalism in the United States. Examines these categorizations of race, class, etc. in their historical, social, and cultural context, and how those have influenced mass-mediated and interpersonal communication. Uses mass media (television, radio, daily print media, music) texts to provide examples of how we understand “difference” and “otherness” in our daily lives.
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4.00 Credits
Examines assumptions underlying the selection of communicative behaviors in conflict situations, and the assessment of choices for expected or desired consequences. Interpersonal, group, organizational, intercultural and international settings are examined. Examination of traditional and nontraditional approaches to conflict management. Required development of case study applying concepts of the course, and class presentation.
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