This document provides an overview of an interpersonal communication course, including assignments for the semester such as position papers, presentations, quizzes, and reading objectives. It also lists six axioms of human communication, such as communication occurring between two or more people, the impossibility of not communicating, and communication having both content and relational aspects. Finally, it provides an example scenario of communicating with an angry parent about their child plagiarizing.

1. CNA 210 – Spring 2011 Interpersonal Communication

2. What is Communication? Introduction to Communication Studies

3. 2 Minute Paper What counts as communication?

4. The field of communication focuses on how people use messages to generate meanings within and across various contexts, cultures, channels, and media. The field promotes the effective and ethical practice of human communication.

5. Six Axioms of Human Communication

6. Axiom 1 Communication is between two or more people

7. Axiom 2 One Cannot Not Communicate

8. Axiom 3 Humans communicate both verbally and nonverbally

9. Axiom 4 Communication is both the content and the relationship

10. Axiom 5 The nature of meaning relies on how we define the starting point

11. Axiom 6 All communication is either convergent or divergent

12. You are a teacher and you have a student in your office. This student is the son of a friend of yours. He was caught plagiarizing a paper. You call up your friend to discuss his son and he yells at you and claims that you are picking on his son. You try to explain the situation and how you caught him, but the father is not listening and continues to yell. Group Work

14. Position Papers

15. Presentation

16. Quizzes

17. Reading Objectives

19. For Thursday Reading Objectives for Chapter 1 Come to class with a list of your top three preferences for presentations. Look at dates as well as content