Mar 28, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2019-20 [Archived Catalog]

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COMS 8270 - Dialogue, Narrative, and Communication


This course is an advanced seminar focusing on dialogue and narrative communication as topics in interpersonal communication and organizational communication theory and research. This course examines in-depth dialogical communication, narrative communication, and a combination of the two in composing the practices of interpersonal or organizational communication contexts.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 4.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Demonstrate knowledge of the major theories within dialogical and narrative communication scholarship.
  • Define and explain basic communication terms and principles that serve as a basis for inquiry in the focal domain.
  • Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the relevant theories of dialogical and narrative communication.
  • Apply principles of dialogical and narrative communication to pertinent situations and demonstrate competent communication practices that respect diverse perspectives.
  • Demonstrate appropriate, ethical use of dialogical and narrative communication practices in research and everyday situations.
  • Synthesize bodies of relevant literature in order to build, evaluate, and critique theory addressing dialogical and narrative communication inquiry.
  • Synthesize material and create a scholarly paper.
  • Synthesize research, design research studies, and analyze data related to dialogical and narrative communication.
  • Articulate students’ own theoretical and methodological assumptions concerning a specific topic area of inquiry addressing dialogical and/or narrative communication and how these assumptions guide their own research.



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