THE DARK SIDE OF HUMAN RELATIONS

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Will investigate how individuals cope with difficult, problematic, distressing, and disruptive social interaction. The topics in this course are the hidden and forbidden aspects of interpersonal communication often examined within only one specific discipline. With the prime focus on the communicative dynamics of these social interactions this course will take an interdisciplinary perspective that spans communication, psychology, sociology, and other cognitive disciplines; and will shine a light on the complexities, both moral and functional, involved in close relationship processes. Cross-listed with HRPT-475 .