Intimate Communication

Catalog description

Loving well requires communicating well. This course seeks to improve students’ ability to listen in a focused way to another person and to speak in ways that communicate more effectively—both essential to loving well. Students will become more aware of how one’s style of communicating affects whether his or her love is believable. Communicating is most challenging in matters where we are most different from our loved one. Information can help us recognize and better understand our different needs without judging them. Therefore the course will examine some important insights from psychology and physiological science about human needs and tendencies and love. This will include current research findings (science and social science) on male-female differences.