Course Description

COMM 496

Senior Seminar: Ethics in Human Communication (3)

This seminar in ethics and communication helps students understand the ethical dilemmas faced by communicators in a variety of situations. Through the examination of various communication theories, students come to understand the powerful ways in which communication defines, creates, maintains, and/or changes social reality and understand the ethical implications involved in each of these communication functions. Meets the general studies requirement as a senior seminar in God's Word and the Christian Response. Prerequisites: senior standing; completion of the majority of the units required for God's Word and the Christian Response; and completion of the majority of course work in the major, and upper-division writing intensive course