CCOG for COMM 101 Winter 2025
- Course Number:
- COMM 101
- Course Title:
- Oral Communication Skills
- Credit Hours:
- 3
- Lecture Hours:
- 30
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- 0
- Lab Hours:
- 0
Course Description
Improve listening and speaking skills. Includes oral reports, conference procedures and everyday conversation. Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
APPROVED TEXTBOOK: Oral Communication, 10th edition, Samovar and Mills
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon successful completion, students should be able to:
- Continue to speak with reduced anxiety by recognizing and using communication strategies
- Use gained skills in the selection of appropriate communication behaviors in order to initiate and organize ideas
- Continue to improve intercultural competence through improved cultural awareness
Outcome Assessment Strategies
The forms of assessment will be determined by the individual instructor.
Assessment strategies may include:
- Oral presentations
- In-class participation
- Listening activities
- Simulations/role playing
- Qualitative examinations
- Quantitative examinations
- Oral examinations
- Journals
- Group work
- Peer evaluations
- Short essays
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
What is Communication?
- Ingredients of Communication
- Importance of Communication
- Communication and Democracy
- Communication and Careers
- Communication and Social Relationships
- Communication and Culture
- Taking Part in Communication
- Dealing with Communication Apprehension
- Ethical Principles of Communication
- Culture and Ethics
- Organizing and Presenting Ideas
- The Role of Culture in Organizational Patterns
- Process of Listening
- Listener and Speaker Responsibilities
Competencies and Skills:
The successful student should:
- Be able to assess the effectiveness of their communication competence
- Determine how to articulate their ideas effectively to a variety of listeners
- Listen to messages and understand content and relational aspects
A textbook is required. Approved texts are listed below. Alternative texts need Department/SAC Chair approval.
Oral Communication, 10th ed., Samovar and Mills
Oral Communication: Skills, Choices and Consequences, Young and Travis