Family Communication (COMM 425/525) is an upper-division undergraduate and beginning-level graduate human communation course that advances students understandings of the role of communiation in the construction, maintenance, and defiinition of primary human relationships and groups. Student are expected to have completed COMM 200S (see the instructor if a waiver is needed) and be at least junior status.
Related courses are: COMM 412/512 Interpersonal Communication Theories and Research; COMM 426/526 Group Communication Theory and Research; COMM 427/527 Children's Communication Theories, Methods, and Applications.
Course Goals: COMM 425
Introduce students to a communication perspective on families and family relationships
Increase student's understand of primary theories of communication in families and family relationships
Develop students abilities to recognize communication patterns and processes that support the positive development of family participant's potentialities.
Increase student's understanding and appreciation of connections between family communication and societal discourse.
Improve students critical-analytical abilities in consuming popular literature about families and family relationships, especially that which advises about family communication
The above goals will be reached by means of lectures, discussion, screenings of relevent media, as well as written assignments and examinations.
Course Goals: COMM 525
Introduce students to a communication perspective on families and family relationships
Increase student's theoretical understanding communication in families and family relationships
Develop students abilities to research communication in families and family relationships
Increase student's understanding and appreciation of connections between family communication and societal discourse.
Improve students critical-analytical abilities in consuming popular literature about families and family relationships, especially that which advises about family communication
Increase student's abilites to prepare and teach lessons in family communication (for the class as well as audiences outside of class)
The above goals will be reached by means of additonal readings, lectures, disussion, screenings, research writing assignments intended to
lead to presentation at professional conferences, examinations, as well as preparing and teaching family communication lessons.
Credit in COMM 525 can be applied towards the MA in Lifespan and Digital Communication degree.
