1. Unit 1: Paradigms – where does knowledge come from?

2. Today Review requirements for: PPA Wiki & class participation Discuss approaches to effective class participation Identify main characteristics of the field of communication studies Introduce paradigms (if time…)

4. Class Participation – tips Come prepared Stay focused Take notes Be part of the learning community Give respect to get respect

5. What is communication? Representative Constitutive Relational Not the same as communications

6. Characteristics of communication Inevitable Dynamic Interdependent Interactional or transactional Intentional or unintentional

7. Field of Comm Studies Processes Messages Behaviors/enactment Effects

8. Comm Studies major Rhetoric and Cultural Criticism Interpersonal & Organizational Communication