COM Course Student Learning Outcomes

COM 101 - Public Speaking

Students will be able to analyze public speaking with a focus on rhetorical perspective.

Students will be able to use key strategies of effective speaking including organization, vocal variety, and ethics to construct logical and coherent arguments.

Students will be able to work cooperatively with members of a team.

COM 113 - Fundamentals of Speech Communications

Students will be able to apply interpersonal concepts/theories to real-life situations. Demonstrate effective group communication skills.

Students will be able to demonstrate basic public speaking skills: audience analysis, speech development, and speech delivery.

Students will be able to identify and analyze the importance and function of interpersonal communication and small-group communication: stages of relationship development, role of self disclosure, and conflict in relationships as well as types of small groups, characteristics, leadership, problem solving/decision making, and conflict in small groups.

Students will be able to identify and use the fundamental principles and theories of human communication: the transactional model of communication, verbal and nonverbal communication, perception, listening, and the self in communication.

COM 212 - Introduction to Communication Research

Students will be able to describe the communication studies discipline and its related sub-fields.

Students will be able to identify and apply research paradigms, methodologies, and theoretical perspectives.

Students will be able to conduct valid research by retrieving database sources, by evaluating the sources, by synthesizing the sources, and by accurately citing the sources.

COM 215 - Introduction to Group Communication

Students will be able to demonstrate communication skills within the small group setting as the relate to conflict.

Students will be able to demonstrate communication skills within the small group setting as they relate to decision making.

Students will be able to demonstrate communication skills within the small group setting as they relate to leadership.

COM 285 - Communication Disabilities and Film

Students will be able to discern and distinguish bias regarding those with disabilities.

Students will be able to critically analyze the influence of film media on how communication disorders are viewed.