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Dec 03, 2024
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CMST& 210 Interpersonal Communication (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective
Course Description
This course focuses on the theoretical and applied exploration of interpersonal communication as a tool for building and maintaining relationships.
Course Content
A. Perceptual process
B. Significant perceptual lenses, such as gender, race, and culture, in shaping one’s understanding of and interpersonal participation in the world
C. Healthy self-awareness
D. Impacts of perception and self-awareness on communication choices within relationships
E. Ethical and appropriate self-disclosure in relationships
F. The cycle of relationship development through various models, such as, but not limited to, Mark Knapp’s 10 steps.
G. Techniques for effective conflict management
H. Techniques for creating supportive communication climates
Student Outcomes
- Explain the importance and development of interpersonal communication.
- Identify and apply individually centered theories of interpersonal communication to an experience, for the purpose of understanding the role of self in communication choices.
- Identify and apply discourse or interaction-based theories of interpersonal communication to an interaction, for the purposes of improving interactions with others and reducing conflict.
- Identify and apply relationship-oriented theories of interpersonal communication to a relationship, for the purposes of improving and maintaining interpersonal relationships.
- Understand and explain the importance of different identities and/or positionalities in interpersonal interactions.
- Identify and demonstrate techniques for creating supportive communicative climates.
Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
A. Tests and quizzes
B. In-class presentations
C. Research papers
D. Small group presentations
E. Small group work
F. In-class participation based activities
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