COMM 2710 - Communication Principles of Mentorship

Institution:

Utah Tech University

Subject:

Communication

Description:

For Communication Studies majors, required in the Applied Leadership emphasis, and open to all students. Explores the role of communication in mentoring relationships to prepare students for mentoring roles. Applies practice and theory from a variety of core communication courses. Through experiential learning, students will employ mentoring skills and discover best practices for successful mentoring relationships. Further, students will identify how mentorship skills facilitate leadership skills relating to presentation, nonverbal communication, collaboration and persuasive strategies. **COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs) At the successful conclusion of this course, students will be able to: 1. Apply and demonstrate the importance of foundations and contributions of communication in both historical & contemporary contexts Prepare K-6 students for a technological world. 2. Identify and evaluate ethical communication in personal, professional, and societal contexts. 3. Illustrate how communication concepts and theories are used to understand communication behaviors in a variety of contexts, including small groups, organizations, interpersonal and professional relationships, and public discourse. 4. Synthesize Practice mentoring skills within the classroom and apply communication theory and skills to solve problems, manage their personal and professional relationships, and overcome communication barriers. 5. Integrate critical reasoning into the formulation and delivery of effective and ethical personal, social, professional, and public oral and written messages for a variety of audience compositions in numerous contexts. 6. Analyze and critique messages from personal, social, professional, and public sources to determine message effectiveness, ethics, appropriateness, and strategies utilized by the message designer. 7. Apply effective and appropriate written & oral communication skills when exposed to intercultural settings, and cross-cultural environments to achieve a cultural sensitivity to diversity, as well as to navigate and overcome potential communication differences. FA

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

05/15/2016 - 08/14/2018 

Institution Website:

www.utahtech.edu/

Phone Number:

(435) 652-7500

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Semester

General Education

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