COM 250 - Communication & Society

Credits: 3

This course surveys the dialectical relationships between communication behavior and the quality of human affairs at interpersonal, small group, organizational, national, and global levels, with emphasis on how individual perception, cognition, and identity interact with societal power in various communication contexts/genres. Major concepts/theories such as self-esteem, stereotype threats, cognitive representation, political incorrectness, cultivation, hegemony, and pseudo-anonymity will be discussed.