COMS 5077 - Communicating with Diverse Students for Teachers and Trainers

This course is designed to explore issues relevant to enhancing communication competence and effectiveness between individuals of diverse backgrounds. Specifically, this course will address interactions between people from a variety of backgrounds, including gender, age, religious, geographical, ethnic, or racial differences. The focus will be on examining the impact of variables such as communication. Students will have the opportunity to explore the underlying patterns that influence their own, as well as others’, communication behaviors, and discuss strategies to improve their understanding of, and appreciation for, those differences. Taught in intensive format only during summer session.

Requisites

Credit Hours: 4.0
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.

Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar

Eligible grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,FN,FS,AU,I

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