AA02_20-21 - Communication Pathway, AA
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Description
The Communication pathway promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication, allowing students to explore how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels and media. This pathway is designed to help students transfer to a university as a Communication major and prepares them for an ever expanding variety of careers.
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Program Learning Outcomes
1. Describe the communication discipline and its central questions.
2. Apply communication theories and practices to develop, maintain and manage effective personal and professional relationships.
3. Demonstrate problem solving and decision-making techniques in a variety of communication settings.
4. Analyze messages in various communication settings and channels.
5. Research and create messages appropriate to the audience, purpose, and context.
6. Demonstrate the ability to accomplish communicative goals (self-efficacy).
7. Apply ethical communication principles and practices.
8. Utilize communication to embrace differences in individual, group and public settings.
9. Evaluate public discourse and discuss and/or advocate a course of civic action.
10. Display competence in oral, written, and visual communication in various personal and professional contexts.
11. Engage in scholarly research in the communication discipline.