![]() Desired communication skills vary from career to career, but again, this book provides a foundation on which you can build communication skills specific to your major or field of study. The National Association of Colleges and Employers has found that employers most desire good communication skills in the college graduates they may hire (National Association of Colleges and Employers, 2010). Also, students who take a communication course report more confidence in their communication abilities, and these students have higher grade point averages and are less likely to drop out of school. Poor listening skills were shown to contribute significantly to failure in a person’s first year of college. Communication skills are also tied to academic success. If that’s the case, you are in luck because research shows that even people who have poor communication skills can improve a wide range of verbal, nonverbal, and interpersonal communication skills by taking introductory communication courses (Zabava & Wolvin, 1993). If you can begin to see these connections now, you can build on the foundational communication skills you learn here to become a more competent communicator, which will undoubtedly also benefit you as a student.Īside from wanting to earn a good grade in this class, you may also be genuinely interested in becoming a better communicator. Then, when you leave this class, I want you to connect the content in future classes back to what you learned here. At least during this semester, studying communication is important to earn a good grade in the class, right? Beyond the relevance to your grade in this class, I challenge you to try to make explicit connections between this course and courses you have taken before and are currently taking. It’s probably not difficult to get you, as students in a communication class, to see the relevance of communication to your academic lives. The philosophy behind this approach is called integrative learning, which encourages students to reflect on how the content they are learning connects to other classes they have taken or are taking, their professional goals, and their civic responsibilities. After all, much of what goes on in a classroom is present in a professional environment, and the classroom has long been seen as a place to prepare students to become active and responsible citizens in their civic lives. The boundaries and borders between these spheres are not solid, and there is much overlap. In order to explore how communication is integrated into all parts of our lives, I have divided up our lives into four spheres: academic, professional, personal, and civic. ![]() The “real world” is whatever we are experiencing at any given moment. ![]() ![]() I also don’t mean to imply that there is a divide between the classroom and the real world. Since communication is such a practical field of study, I use the word real to emphasize that what you’re reading in this book isn’t just about theories and vocabulary or passing a test and giving a good speech. When I say real, I don’t mean to imply that there is some part of our world or lives that is not real. This class is meant to help people see the value of communication in the real world and our real lives. (Content obtained from Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)Ĭommunication Is Integrated into All Parts of Our Lives 13 - Chapter 3: Verbal and Nonverbal Communicationġ9 - 3.6 Importance of Nonverbal Communication in InteractionĢ0 - 3.7 Nonverbal Communication CategoriesĢ2 - Chapter 4: Interpersonal CommunicationĢ3 - 4.1 Introduction to Interpersonal Communicationģ2 - Chapter 5: Intercultural Communicationģ3 - 5.1 The Impact of Culture on Behaviorģ4 - 5.2 Understanding Cultural Differencesģ5 - 5.3 Barriers to Intercultural Communicationģ6 - 5.4 Cultural Communication Competenceģ9 - 5.7 Foundations of Culture and IdentityĤ0 - 5.8 Exploring Specific Cultural IdentitiesĤ5 - 6.4 Leadership and Small Group CommunicationĤ9 - 7.2 Foundations: Choosing Your Topicĥ1 - 7.4 Speech Delivery: Body Language and Voiceĥ2 - 7.5 Analyzing Your Audience and Situationĥ9 - Chapter 9: Developing Speech ContentĦ2 - 9.3 Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |