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Course Outlines
Course Outlines

Interpersonal Communication — COMS 1020

  1. Course Description
    • Credits: 3.00
    • Lecture Hours/Week: 3.00
    • Lab Hours/Week: 0.00
    • OJT Hours/Week: 0
    • Prerequisites: None
    • Corequisites: None
    • MnTC Goals:
      • 01 – Communication
      • 7A – Human Diversity
    This course is intended to increase student's awareness of the processes, models, and theories of interpersonal communication relative to relationships that impact people's personal and professional lives. Through self-analysis and reflection, case studies, practical application, and critical thinking, students will examine the influence of communicative behaviors on themselves, their personal relationships, groups, and society. Concepts include self-esteem, self-fulfilling prophecies, perception, ethics, emotion, conflict, cultural awareness, language, nonverbal communication, social media, and listening. Meets MNTC Goal 1 and Goal 7 / Goal 7A Fall 2025 and after.
  2. Course Effective Dates: 2/10/22 – Present
  3. Outline of Major Content Areas
    1. Basic models of communication
    2. Basic theories of communication
    3. Conflict management
    4. Cultural dynamics and influences on communication
    5. Emotional communication
    6. Ethics
    7. Intrapersonal Communication
    8. Language
    9. Nonverbal communication
    10. Perception
    11. Relationship development
    12. Technology related communication
  4. Learning Outcomes
    1. Identify basic theories, models, and concepts relative to the processes of interpersonal communication.
    2. Reflect on and evaluate the implications of communication behaviors and the influence of those behaviors on self and others.
    3. Demonstrate communication competence through the application of skills that positively affect the ability to create, manage, and maintain interpersonal relationships.
    4. Connect communication theories, models, and concepts to the expressed reality of relationships.
  5. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies
      Goal 01 — Communication
      • Understand/demonstrate the writing and speaking processes through invention, organization, drafting, revision, editing and presentation.
      • Participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding.
      • Locate, evaluate, and synthesize in a responsible manner material from diverse sources and points of view.
      • Select appropriate communication choices for specific audiences.
      Goal 7A — Human Diversity
      • Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States' history and culture.
      • Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
      • Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
      • Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
  6. Learner Outcomes Assessment
      As noted on course syllabus
  7. Special Information
      None noted