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COM 106: 
Interpersonal Communication

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Course Description
This course helps students understand and improve personal communication skills in a variety of contexts, including social, workplace, and family settings.  Topics may include intra-personal communication, language, non-verbal behavior, listening, roles, supportiveness and conflict management.  This course is useful in all COM curriculum guides and as a UNIV elective.

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 Course Objectives

• Demonstrate an understanding of the linear, interactional, and transactional approaches to interpersonal  communication.

• Understand interpersonal communication concepts such as listening, perception, self concept, and message systems (language and non-verbal)

• Understand the differences in communication in contexts such as families, friendships, and the workplace.

• Demonstrate appropriate interpersonal communication skills such as managing conflict, self-disclosing, and active listening.

• Identify patterns of functional and dysfunctional intrapersonal and interpersonal communication.

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Course Textbook:         
Verderber, Rudolph F. and Kathleen S.  Inter-Act:  Interpersonal Communication Concepts, Skills, and Contexts (10^th Ed.), Wadsworth Publishing

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