Communication and Leadership

Catalog description

Communication and Leadership. This course surveys the essential relationship between leadership and communication. Examining leadership from a communication perspective, this course focuses on leadership as meaning management; namely how to create, frame, and communicate one's own "realities" to others. Moreover, this class examines leadership as encompassing symbolic acts of creation and interpretation by drawing on communication theories (i.e., social construction of reality and coordinated management of meaning) that illustrate the symbolic capacities, limitations, and ethics of meaning making. Finally, the course focuses on practicing the skills of meaning making as it pertains to creating, using, interpreting, and critically evaluating moments of leadership in "everyday" acts of communication. Prerequisite: COM 601. (Offered every spring and summer term.)