STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
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I. | Course Number and Credit: | COM 312, 3 credits |
II. | Course Title: | Communication Relationships and Communities |
III. | Course Description: |
A detailed look at the relationship of how our interpersonal communication shapes our communities, our relationships, and ourselves. Detailed consideration is given to a variety of representations of meaning, emotion, and thinking as they influence and are shaped by our communication with friends, family, significant others, culture and social institutions. |
IV, | Prerequisites: | COM 212 or COM 240 or permission of instructor. Junior or senior status. |
V, | Course Justification: |
Students of interpersonal communication need a detailed understanding of the relationship of interpersonal communication theory to real world practice. This course explores the ways in which communication and shared meaning emerge from our personal engagement of a social world; the ways in which social institutions and the self emerge from and are shaped by our communication with others. This course can be used to partly satisfy the writing requirement in communication. |
VI. | Course Objectives: |
The student will be able to:
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VII. | Course Outline: |
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VIII. | Methods of Instruction: |
Methods of instruction may include some combination of lecture, discussion, small group collaboration and reports, hands on use of technologically mediated communication systems, individual research, papers, and examinations. |
IX. | Course Requirements: | Students will be required to master
material relating to the course objectives as presented in readings and
classroom activities. They will be expected to complete some combination
of the following::
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X. | Means of Evaluation: |
Students will be evaluated using some combination of examinations, individual research, and group projects as follows:
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XI. | Resources: | No additional resources will be needed to offer this course beyond keeping current with library acquisitions. |
XII. Bibliography:
Adorno, T.W., Frenkel-Brunswik, E., Levinson, D.J., Sanford,
R.N. (1950). The authoritarian
personality. New York: Harper.
Bell, R.A., & Daly, J.A. (1984). The affinity-seeking function of
communication,
Communication Monographs, 51, 91-115. Berscheid, E., & Hatfield, E. (1978). Interpersonal attraction, 2nd ed. New York: Random House. Bierhoff, H. (1990). Person perception and attribution. New York: Springer-Verlag. Booth-Butterfield, M. (Ed.) (1991). Communication, cognition, and anxiety . Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
Brehm, J.W., & Cohen, A.R. (1962). Explorations in cognitive dissonance.
New York: John Wiley & Sons. Goss, B. (1995). The psychology of human communication, 2nd ed. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
Heil, J. (1983). Perception
and cognition. Berkeley; U. of
California Press.
Huston, T.L. (1974). Foundations of interpersonal attraction. New
York: Academic Press. Roloff, M.E. (1981). Interpersonal communication: Social exchange approach. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage. Roloff, M.E., & Berger, C.R. (Eds.)
(1982). Social cognition and communication. Beverly Hills: Sage.
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