Material not referenced will emerge in lectures, discussions, or reports. Take good notes in class and plenty of them. Against a background of the nature of science and theories, a multidimensional model, the Communication Mosaic , is offered of communication theory. A theory is a scientific account of phenomena. At a minimum it is a strategy for handling data in research, providing a conceptual system for describing and explaining.
Communication is a complex, pervasive phenomena.
Virtually every human endeavor involves communication in some way. As a science, communication is rather new. A staggering amount of research and theories has been coming forth in the past two decades. There is so much of it, in fact, that both specialist and generalist are bewildered, often led to bemoan the absence of theory in the field. The Communication Mosaic attempts to do two things.