2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog | 20253
Communication Studies Courses
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COMM 3500 Communication and Conflict (3 credits)
This course provides an overview of how communication is used in everyday life to create, negotiate, and resolve interpersonal and organizational conflict. Specific topics include historical and contemporary communication conflict management theories, conflict styles, impact of gender and culture on conflict communication, listening, bullying and difficult people, collaboration, mediation, and reconciliation. Contexts of conflict will include intimate relationships, family, social media, and workplace settings. Overall, this course prepares students to critique existing social structures that create conflictual situations and use communication choices to make conflict more productive in their personal and professional lives. [Core Curriculum Goal Area 5]
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