These are the current course offerings for the 2000-2001 academic year. The study of life-enhancing communication principles such as listening, conflict management, and gender communication. The study of how human beings use verbal and non-verbal symbols to create meaning.
Course also includes training in public speaking.
Events include extemporaneous, impromptu, after-dinner speaking, persuasion, informative, prose, poetry, duo, dramatic, and program oral interpretation. The study of group communication processes. The study and application of oral communication techniques appropriate for both elementary and secondary teachers. Class includes training in story telling, oral interpretation of literature, and creative dramatics. A study of the current theory and research on the relationships between language, non-verbal behavior, and communication in contemporary American society.