Courses

Human Communication - COMM 1100

Summer 2024

Description

A broad approach to oral communication skills including intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, and public speaking.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Identify and describe:
  the basic components of the communication models;
  the various types of communication;
  the role communication plays to satisfy needs;
  the difference between communication and communications (information technology, satellite engineering, etc.).
• Utilize critical thinking skills to create communicative appeals that are coherent and well adapted to the receiver, stylistically appropriate, and substantively complex.
• Describe the different ways at which language defines and frames situations.
• Recognize how different language strategies (such as the use of vivid, evasive, and equivocal language) enhance or undermine communication effectiveness.
• Describe and analyze the basic strategies for reducing communication anxiety
• Identify, analyze, and discuss common listening habits that interfere with effective communication and strategies for improving listening skills
• Analyze the fundamental dimensions of cultural diversity (demographic, regional, and ideological) as they relate to communication
• Discuss the ethical aspects of communication.
• Identify and explain the major theories of human communication and persuasion in
  interpersonal communication contexts,
  in small group communication contexts
  and in public communication contexts.
• Observe, explain, and apply the major concepts used to describe interpersonal processes, including:
  the evolution of the selfconcept;
  relational development;
  listening
• Observe, explain, and apply the major concepts used to describe small group processes, including
  group characteristics,
  decision making, roles,
  norms for interaction.
• Observe and utilize the recommended strategies for developing, delivering, and evaluating effective public presentations.

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