Communication

COM 101 - Speech Communication (3 credits)

This course will focus on intrapersonal, interpersonal, and public speaking. Students will acquire theory and develop skills in gender communication, workplace communication, interviewing, informative speaking and persuasive speaking.

COM 112 - The Art and Joy of Communication (1 credits)

This course is designed to focus on elevating all of your communication skills – writing, conversing, and corresponding – by stimulating the exploration of your creative mind-set. We will tap into your innovative, thoughtful, intelligent, and humorous potential. The real (maybe hidden) you: eloquently expressive, sublimely jubilant, sagely introspective, and outrageously fecund. My goals are to enrich and empower your communication abilities, enabling you to correspond and articulate fluently and expressively. With panache! To enjoy the art – and enormous fun – of communication. Prerequisite(s): ENG 101. NOTE: Credit will be granted for either COM 112 or COM 113, not for both. This course can not be used in the Communication concentration.

COM 113 - Creative Communication (3 credits)

This course is designed to enable students to perfect their communication skills: writing, corresponding, emailing, conversing, negotiating, and persuading. The course will stimulate the students’ creative mind-set, helping them become more proficient at communicating in all aspects of their personal and professional life – at home, with friends, on the field of play, at the country club, in the boardroom – with analytical insight, humor, dignity, and alacrity. Students will learn and exercise the power of an expanded vocabulary (words matter!), kindness in conversation, laughter in discussion, team-building, and cooperation in negotiating. Members of the class will tap into their innovative, thoughtful, and intelligent potential: eloquently expressive, sublimely jubilant, outrageously fecund, and sagely introspective. The course will enrich and empower students’ communication abilities, enabling them to correspond and articulate fluently and expressively. Students will learn to become adept storytellers.Prerequisite(s): ENG 101. NOTE: Credit will be granted for either COM 112 or COM 113, not for both. This course can not be used in the Communication concentration.

COM 114 - The Lost Art of Civility (1 credits)

This course will focus on civil discourse which is the process through which people come together to discuss and debate, find shared knowledge, and enhance understanding. Topics include: the state of civility in society today, free speech, the psychology of cognitive bias, the structure of productive debate and argument, engaged listening and conversation across difference. By the end of the course, students will have practiced, through reading, writing, listening, and speaking, the art of civility and civil discourse, and will be able to bring these skills to their communities, companies, organizations, and families. Note: Does not contribute to Written or Oral Communication General Education requirements.

COM 326 - Organizational Communication (3 credits)

This course will focus on the importance of communication and relationships in creating a productive work environmen. Topics include non-verbal communication, constructive feedback, dealing with anger, and resolving conflict. Prerequisite(s): ENG 101, ENG 102.

COM 499 - Communication Capstone (3 credits)

This is the capstone course for the Communication concentration and should be taken in the student's last semester. The student can have no more than 6 credits remaining in their concentration to complete in their degree program prior to enrolling in this course. The goal of the course is for students to integrate the knowledge gained in the Communication concentration courses. The course must be taken at Charter Oak State College. Prerequisite(s): ENG 101, ENG 102.