Description:
This course examines the role of interpersonal communication in managing a variety of challenging events in friendships, romantic relationships, and family relationships, such as hurt, conflict, jealousy, negotiating sexual intimacy, terminating relationships, etc.
Learning Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify some of the challenging experiences that emerge in close relationships and explain the circumstances surrounding these events and the role of interpersonal communication in resolving those events.
- Demonstrate an ability to assimilate readings from class and to write in a manner that is appropriate for the social sciences.
- Demonstrate an ability to use communication concepts to analyze human behavior and to apply those concepts to improve social and professional life.
- Demonstrate competency in library research and an ability to integrate resources to understand a relational phenomenon.
- Demonstrate an ability to construct survey questions and analyze survey data to better understand a relational phenomenon.