Interpersonal and Small Group Communication

Catalog description

This course offers a selected overview of human communication focusing on the various contexts where communication between people takes place. Students will better understand interpersonal communication both as a concept and as something we experience in our everyday lives, especially with regard to participating in and leading small groups. Students explore the changing communication dynamics as small groups develop, the roles groups members may enact through communication (including leadership), and the tensions and conflicts that emerge within group communication. Students will execute meetings, participate in group projects, evaluate basic group concepts, differentiate group theories in an applied setting, and apply information by evaluating an external group