2023-2024 Course Catalog

COMM 2111 Family Communication

This course explores how communication functions within families to develop, maintain, enrich, or limit family relationships. Descriptive rather than prescriptive, the course emphasizes understanding families as unique communication systems embedded within sub-cultural and cultural ecosystems. Awareness of the functions of communication in families can help students understand more about how and why their families behave as they do. The course also provides several theoretical approaches to help students better understand the interactional dynamics occurring in their family or families.  

Credits

3 cr

Prerequisite

COMM 1100 or COMM 1111 (C or higher)

Offered

Fall, Spring

Notes

 

MnTC Goals

5