Communication (COM)

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.

Focuses on understanding and developing high-level listening skills. Through lecture and interactive exercises, students learn the fundamentals of effective listening.

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.

Focuses on protecting your interests and those of others while preserving relationships. Examines role-playing and other dynamic techniques and incorporates negotiation skills for personal and professional situations.

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.

Introduces the study of intrapersonal communication (communication with self) and emphasizes understanding of one’s past experiences in learning how to set goals, accomplish life objectives, communicate with self, and plan for the future. This course includes individualized research, journaling, creativity explorations, lessons involving an individual’s past and present hopes and dreams, goal setting for the future, positive self exploration techniques and styles, networking, personal assessments, and creativity enhancement.

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. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-SS3 category.

Introduces the theory and practice of argumentation as a civic art. In exploring argumentation as a method for ethical inquiry and advocacy, this course fosters the use of critical thinking to formulate, express, support, refute, and analyze arguments across a variety of contexts. This course includes preparation for and participation in methods of public argumentation, including but not limited to debates.