COMS 8270 - Dialogue, Narrative, and Communication

• 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.