COM 4633 - Advanced Interpersonal Theory

Credits: 4

This course helps students understand the nature and practical application of a variety of interpersonal communication theories, their role in shaping scholarship within the discipline and the results of research that follow from such theories. Students will be expected to be critical consumers of theory and use theory to examine actual communication events in real-world situations in order to improve outcomes. Methods of investigation unique to the study of interpersonal interaction will be addressed and the difference between implications of humanistic/interpretive research and positivistic/objective research will be emphasized.
Prerequisite(s): COM1020 and COM2401 and COM2801.