Oct 07, 2024  
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 
    
OHIO University Graduate Catalog 2021-22 [Archived Catalog]

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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
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 35.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Become familiar with the study of culture and communication from an instructional communication perspective.
  • Become more willing, self-reflective, flexible, and open communicators in diverse classrooms.
  • Increase sensitivity to the complexity of interactions with diverse students.
  • Recognize the influence of one’s own cultural groups on communication with diverse students.



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