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Nov 08, 2024
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COMS 1100C - Communication Among Cultures
The purpose of this course is to explore the role of communication in understanding, accepting, and appreciating cultural differences. Students in this course will understand that culture includes not only issues of nationality, ethnicity, and race, but also issues such as gender, socioeconomic status, and age. Using a number of co-cultural, cross-cultural, and intercultural examples, students will explore how communication is a key component of bridging cultural differences.
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Foundations: Intercultural Explorations
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 2CP
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 explore the interconnected relationship between culture and communication.
- Students will be able to understand that culture and communication are both theoretically rooted in the idea of a socially constructed reality.
- Students will be able to understand the relationships among culture, language, and communication.
- Students will be able to examine how our communicative practices, verbal, non-verbal, mediated, and so on, shape and sustain our cultural realities.
- Students will be able to facilitate an understanding of culture as a process that we co-create as we communicate.
- Students will be able to understand the relationship between culture and communication by looking at communicative practices in various contexts: gender, class, race, disability, sexuality, sexual orientation, and so on.
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