Mar 28, 2024  
2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog 
    
2014-2015 UMass Dartmouth Graduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENL 502 - Communication Theories

Credits 3
How does language shape thought? How do human beings communicate? What are the effects of mass communication? The study of communication draws from a range of disciplines including linguistics, semantics, philosophy, psycholinguistics, psychology, psychoneurology, and sociology to derive answers to how humans, as symbol makers, communicate. We will study communication models, mechanistic and transactional analogues, intra- and interpersonal systems, and systems theories. Topics will include: information processing, language as transactional process, communication models, rules of perceptual organization, communication networks, dyadic versus group and mass communication, and nonverbal and interpersonal interactions.