COMM1020

This course provides a basic overview of the relationships between communication, social identity, and power. The course is grounded in “social constructionism,” which contends that humans create reality through social interaction, which in turn shapes environments and structures which then affects our interactions. The course will examine “difference” as a socially-constructed and communicative phenomenon, but one with material and embodied consequences. While the course calls attention to oppressive systems, it resists narratives of victimhood, instead amplifying understanding of the role of communication in constructing, surviving, and resisting the consequences of these identities/differences.

pre-req: Comm major or minor

012008

Every Fall & Spring