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VOL. 2 COMS THEORY, PRACTICE

(6 COURSES)

Focus: Familiarize students with the field of organizational communication (OC) studies, concentrating on organizational commmunication studies, overall, as a culture.

Sample Issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): Get teams of students to script video game episodes applying conventional knowledge of organizational communication in dystopian futures, against villains from selected comics (Judge Dredd, Dr. Manhattan, Spider Jerusalem, Anarchist V, and the Joker).

Organizational COMS Theory

Focus: Acquaint students with theory and practice of various schools of communication scholarship that inform effective business and professional communication.

Sample Issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): Teams create imaginary avatars and organizations for them to function in.

Focus: Examination of sound principles, and mistakes to avoid, in conducting interviews in a variety of contexts.

Sample Issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): (1) student-created workshop for training people to interviewed and be interviewed; (2) pairing interviewers/interviewees to simulate interviews combining course knowledge with personal experience.

Focus: Examines various attempts to explain human communication through formal theory.

Sample Issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): Complex, multistage, dynamic simulation depicting five traditions of communication theory as a struggle for dominance among collectives, or "tribes."

Focus: Monitor and evaluate job experience in environment related to students' field of study.

Sample Issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): Perspective-taking exercises as key to performance.

Focus: Introduces students to the vast field of communication studies.

Sample issues:

Teaching Innovation(s): Development of master generative metaphor (world of Batman) as structure for inspiring creative approaches to COMS study.

ARCHIVES FOR RICHCOURSES.COM

VOL. 2 COMS THEORY, PRACTICE

(6 COURSES)

Focus: Familiarize students with the field of organizational communication (OC) studies, concentrating on organizational commmunication studies, overall, as a culture.

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Sample Issues:

Illustrated dystopian novels (comics) as source for applying organizational communication knowledge.

Taking on the worst aspects of society, instead of focusing on the best.

Combining "utopian" with "dystopian" in thinking about organizations.

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Teaching Innovation(s): Get teams of students to script video game episodes applying conventional knowledge of organizational communication in dystopian futures, against villains from selected comics (Judge Dredd, Dr. Manhattan, Spider Jerusalem, Anarchist V, and the Joker).

Organizational COMS Theory

Focus: Acquaint students with theory and practice of various schools of communication scholarship that inform effective business and professional communication.

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Sample Issues:

Establish weakness of generic "do" and "don't" lists.

Draw on communication specialties to compose training program for organization's members.

How organizational identity is manufactured and maintained.

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Teaching Innovation(s): Teams create imaginary avatars and organizations for them to function in.

Focus: Examination of sound principles, and mistakes to avoid, in conducting interviews in a variety of contexts.

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Sample Issues:

Modern media as driver of the interview society.

Interview as "conversating," or speaking with a purpose.

interview types: health/counseling, investigative, job, research.

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Teaching Innovation(s): (1) student-created workshop for training people to interviewed and be interviewed; (2) pairing interviewers/interviewees to simulate interviews combining course knowledge with personal experience.

Focus: Examines various attempts to explain human communication through formal theory.

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Sample Issues:

What makes a good COMS theory.

How a theory gets constructed, developed and disseminated.

How theories combine and clash with each other.

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Teaching Innovation(s): Complex, multistage, dynamic simulation depicting five traditions of communication theory as a struggle for dominance among collectives, or "tribes."

Focus: Monitor and evaluate job experience in environment related to students' field of study.

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Sample Issues:

Techniques of effective interaction episodes (e.g., interviews).

working under and with direct supervisor on the job.

Designing/presenting audiovisual self-examination on job performance.

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Teaching Innovation(s): Perspective-taking exercises as key to performance.

Focus: Introduces students to the vast field of communication studies.

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Sample issues:

Knowledge of field as a culture.

Destroying the "laundry list" approaches.

Perfecting a master generative metaphor.

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Teaching Innovation(s): Development of master generative metaphor (world of Batman) as structure for inspiring creative approaches to COMS study.