COM - Communication

Courses

COM 1000: Workplace Communications

Credits 1
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.

COM 1105: Career Communications

Credits 3
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.

COM 1150: Public Speaking

Credits 3
Combines the basic theories of communication with public speech performance skills. Emphasis is on speech preparation, organization, support, audience analysis, and delivery.

COM 1250: Interpersonal Communication: GT-SS3:

Credits 3
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.

COM 1260: Communication in Healthcare

Credits 3
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.

COM 1300: Communication and Popular Culture: GT-AH1

Credits 3

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.

COM 2063: Conflict Resolution

Credits 1

Focuses on handling conflict productively. Students gain insights into the roots of conflict and engage in skill practice in mediating interpersonal conflicts. The emphasis is on conflict prevention.

COM 2069: Leadership

Credits 1

Emphasizes the essential skills and attributes of leadership. Through lectures, activities and readings, the students will understand the differences between leadership and management, how theory leads to practice, and the appropriate leadership style to use according to the situation.

COM 2180: Oral Interpretation

Credits 3
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.

COM 2220: Group Communication GT-SS3

Credits 3
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.

COM 2250: Organizational Communication

Credits 3
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.

COM 2300: Intercultural Communications: GT-SS3

Credits 3
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.

COM 2400: Argumentation and Debate

Credits 3

Introduces the student to the theory of argumentation, including reasoning, evidence, refutation, critical thinking, and extemporaneous speaking. The course includes practice in preparation and oral analysis of selected arguments and styles of debating.