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Apr 28, 2024
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COMS 4061 - Communication, Dialogue, and Creativity
This course investigates the theoretical, existential, practical, and ethical interrelations of communication, dialogue and creativity. It examines practices and ideals of dialogue in pursuing our everyday lives as creative communicative endeavors accomplished with others. Students are encouraged to become humane communicators who use their imagination and creativity to solve problems that arise in personal, civic, professional interactions.
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes: - Students will be able to explain dialogue as a communicative stance, array of practices, and set of ideals for interaction with others.
- Students will be able to examine and report on the nature of everyday life as a creative endeavor undertaken with others.
- Students will be able to describe the capacities of dialogue for cultivating creativity in commucation across a variety of contexts.
- Students will be able to explain the importance of active listening in dialogical communication and fostering creativity.
- Students will be able to apply concepts for encouraging creativity and expanding one’s creative efforts as a communicator.
- Students will be able to explain concepts for assessing one’s own creative practices, performances, and products as a communicator in everyday life.
- Students will be able to describe and compare positive and negative capacities of emerging technologies for cultivating creativity.
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