Provides opportunities for developing essential skills in methods for understanding and analyzing communication problems in organizations and devising appropriate corrective actions. Emphasis is on making communication more efficient and effective for organization growth and development. Consideration of communicative nature of those systems and type of relationships which they define. Systems and policies at network and local station level. Analysis of messages, communication barriers and breakdowns, interpersonal communication processes and influences, communication networks and group development, composition, standards and goals.
Emphasis is on making communication more efficient and effective in small group activities.
Topics include paralinguistics, proxemics, kinesics, chronemics, and semantics and their use in various interpersonal and intercultural contexts. One lecture, one three-hour laboratory. S, U grades are assigned. Two lectures, one three-hour studio. Two lectures, two-hour studio.