COMM 3510 - Communication and Conflict

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): COMM 1100

Description: This course helps individuals develop strategies for maintaining conflict dynamics in communication interactions at work, home, school, and the community. Effort is made to pinpoint individual communication conflict styles and to assess their effectiveness in conflict interactions. Major topic areas include, but are not limited to, the following: defining conflict; theories on conflict management; intrapersonal conflict; interpersonal conflict; approaches to managing conflict; power issues in conflict management.