Communications Program

COMM 111Z emphasizes developing communication skills by examining and demonstrating how self-awareness, audience, content, and occasion influence the creation and delivery of speeches and presentations. Prerequisites:?Placement into WR 121 or successful completion of RDWR 115 or equivalent.?Audit available.

Explores the nature and impact of different cultures on communication. Includes interactive relationship forms as the basis for global understanding in the classroom, business, or travel. Focus on processing messages with accelerating changes in political, economic, and immigration patterns through individual cultural perceptions. Understand and communicate with people of various cultures. Prerequisite: RDWR 115 equivalent or placement above this level.

This course examines problem solving aspects of small group communication, processes and activities. Includes process and task, leadership, verbal and non-verbal messages in the small group, norms and roles, conflict reduction, and decision-making. Focuses on theory and practice. Prerequisite: RDWR 115 equivalent or placement above this level.

COMM 218Z increases the knowledge and use of competent communication skills to better understand oneself, others, and the role of communication in interpersonal relationships. Audit available.

Introduces the nonverbal aspect of communication as related to verbal communication. Emphasizes the theories and types of nonverbal behavior including influential factors such as; voice, body movement, eye behavior, touch, space, time, smell, and physical and social environments. Prerequisites: RDWR 115 equivalent or placement above this level. Audit available.

Examines the similarities and differences in male and female communication styles and patterns. Particular attention given to the implications of gender as social construct upon perception, values, stereotypes, language use, nonverbal communication, and power and conflict in human relationships. Discusses influence of mass communication upon shaping and constructing male and female sex roles. Course fulfills block transfer and cultural diversity requirements and is transferable to state four-year colleges and universities. Prerequisites: RDWR 115 equivalent or placement above this level. Audit available.