COM - Communication

Covers topics that teach students how to communicate effectively in the workplace. Includes listening, speaking, reading, and writing and emphasizes the importance of these four modes of communication in the workplace.

Develops skills needed in obtaining and keeping a job.

Includes job searching, applications, resumes, interviews, and the dynamics of customer, peer, and managerial relationships. Emphasizes speaking, writing, listening, critical reading skills, and vocabulary development essential to the employment world.

Combines the basic theories of communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech preparation, organization, support, audience analysis, and delivery.

Examines the communication involved in interpersonal relationships occurring in family, social, and career situations. Relevant concepts include self-concept, perception, listening, nonverbal communication, and conflict. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.

Covers interactive concerns in settings related to patient-client care. This class includes discussions of diverse cultures, client interaction, and family/caregiver issues. The course addresses the concerns of attitude, office politics, teamwork, self-initiative, and conflict management as specifically experienced in the patient-as-client setting.

Introduces four key theoretical models for examining popular culture: Narrative Theory, Rhetorical Theory, Gender Theory, and Critical Race Theory. Emphasis is on popular American media texts, including books, comics/graphic novels, films, music, and television. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH1 category.

Exposes the student to the artistic, interpretive, and communicative potential to be found in the reading and performance of great literature and rhetoric such as is found in prose, poetry, drama.

Examines group communication theories with an emphasis on leadership and group behaviors. The course provides opportunities for group participation. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.

Focuses on the role of communication theory and skills as they apply to business and organizational settings. Topics include organizational and leadership models, effective communication skills with peers, superiors, and subordinates, environmental factors impacting communication, and interviewing skills.

Provides a global view of communication across cultures and brings an awareness of how perception, language, race, verbal, and nonverbal communication impact our behaviors, messages, and interactions. Emphasis is on developing effective and ethical cross-cultural communication skills, while also building an appreciation for different cultures.