COMM 2071 - Communication and Gender

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3 Lab 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): Course placement into college-level English and Reading OR completion of ENGL 0950 with a grade of C or higher OR completion of RDNG 0940 with a grade of C or higher and qualifying English Placement Exam OR completion of RDNG 0950 with a grade of C or higher and ENGL 0090 with a grade of C or higher OR completion of ESOL 0051 with a grade of C or higher and ESOL 0052 with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: ENGL 1020 with a grade of C or higher OR ENGL 1021 with a grade of C or higher or concurrently enrolled.

Major Content

Definitions: feminism, gender, culture and communication
Gender communication in education, organizations and the media
Gender development through communication and culture
Nonverbal differences in womens and men¿s communication
Power, violence, and activism as forms of gender communication
Relational differences: family, friendship, and romance
Rhetorical aspects of gender
The process of communication
Verbal differences in womens and men’s communication

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

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

Competency 1 (1-6)
01. 02. Participate effectively in groups with emphasis on listening, critical and reflective thinking, and responding.
01. 03. Locate, evaluate, and synthesize in a responsible manner material from diverse sources and points of view.
01. 04. Select appropriate communication choices for specific audiences.
01. 06. Use authority, point-of-view, and individual voice and style in their writing and speaking.
01. 07. Employ syntax and usage appropriate to academic disciplines and the professional world.
Competency 2 (7-10)
07. 01. Understand the development of and the changing meanings of group identities in the United States’ history and culture.
07. 02. Demonstrate an awareness of the individual and institutional dynamics of unequal power relations between groups in contemporary society.
07. 03. Analyze their own attitudes, behaviors, concepts and beliefs regarding diversity, racism, and bigotry.
07. 04. Describe and discuss the experience and contributions (political, social, economic, etc.) of the many groups that shape American society and culture, in particular those groups that have suffered discrimination and exclusion.
07. 05. Demonstrate communication skills necessary for living and working effectively in a society with great population diversity.

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COMM 2071 - Communication and Gender