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COMM 2071 - Communication and Gender

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None
Course Description: This course studies how communication and culture create, maintain, and influence perceptions of gender. Patterns of womens and mens communication, why these patterns differ, and how communication differences are perceived will be emphasized. Various communication contexts covered in this course will include the family, friendship, romantic relationships, education, the workplace, and the media.
MnTC Goals
1 Communication, 7 Human Diversity

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement into RDNG 1000  or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher, and assessment score placement into ENGL 1021  or completion of ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021  with a grade of C or higher or concurrent enrollment.

Major Content
  1. Definitions: feminism, gender, culture and communication
  2. Gender communication in education, organizations and the media
  3. Gender development through communication and culture
  4. Nonverbal differences in womens and men¿s communication
  5. Power, violence, and activism as forms of gender communication
  6. Relational differences: family, friendship, and romance
  7. Rhetorical aspects of gender
  8. The process of communication
  9. Verbal differences in womens and men’s communication

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. Analyze how communication and culture create, maintain, and influence perceptions of gender.
  2. Explore different patterns in womens and mens communication, why these patterns differ, and how these differences are perceived in various contexts.
  3. Identify ways students communication patterns reinforce and/or change cultural expectations of gender.
  4. Communicate more effectively and constructively with others whose ways of communicating are different from their own.


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