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- COM 310 Entire Course (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Communication Introduction Worksheet (UOP Course) - COM 310 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
Communication Theories Matrix (UOP Course)
- Please study the syllabus to familiarize yourself
with the objectives we will be covering in this
course. What are your expectations of this class?
Do you have any preconceived notions when you
hear the term "Communication Theory"?
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- COM 310 Week 1 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 1 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
- Your text discusses the concept of individual
"fields of experience". How does a person's field
of experience influence a communication event?
Can you think of a communication experience or
relationship you have had that was significantly
influenced by differing fields of experience?
(Remember, this doesn't necessarily refer to a
"field of experience" as in work experience!)
- I realize this is the last day of Week 1, but I
wanted to post this anyway, just to highlight
another theory from the Week 1 reading. It is
perfectly fine for this discussion to carry into
the first few days of Week 2.) - Chapter 8 of your text discusses the Expectancy
Violations Theory.
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- COM 310 Week 1 Individual Assignment
Communication Introduction Worksheet (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- Complete the University of Phoenix Material
Communication Introduction Worksheet located in
Week One of the COM310 ecampus page. Instructions
and details of the assignment are included.
- Chapter 9 of your text discusses the Uncertainty
Reduction Theory which is the only communication
theory devoted to initial interactions. There are
seven axioms of URT. Please choose one axiom and
discuss how you have experienced this axiom of
URT in a past communication exchange.
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- COM 310 Week 2 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 2 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 10 of your text discusses the Social
Penetration Theory which involves
self-disclosure. What are the consequences of
poorly planned or inappropriate self-disclosure?
Can you think of examples from your own life
where self-disclosure caused a problem?
Conversely, what are the benefits of
self-disclosure?
- Chapter 13 of your text discusses the
Communication Privacy Management Theory, which is
a practical theory designed to explain the
everyday issue of whether or not to tell someone
something. Many of our interactions (personal,
school, work) in today's world occur in an online
environment.
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- COM 310 Week 2 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
Communication Theories Matrix (UOP Course)
- Chapter 11 of your text discusses the Social
Exchange Theory which is based on the notion that
people review and weigh their relationships in
terms of costs and rewards. Does applying this
theory to your current or past relationships help
you understand those relationships?
- Complete the University of Phoenix Material
Communication Theories Matrix located in Week
One of the COM310 ecampus page. Instructions and
details of the assignment are included. Please
complete the peer evaluation form after this
assignment is completed.
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- COM 310 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 3 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 14 of your text discusses the concept of
Groupthink. Discuss the advantages and
disadvantages associated with having a high level
of cohesiveness among members of a group. Have
you ever been in a group where Groupthink was an
issue? If so, what could have been done to avoid
Groupthink?
- Chapter 15 of your text discusses the Adaptive
Structuration Theory. This theory has three main
components Agency and reflexivity, duality of
structure, and social integration. Please choose
one of these elements of the Adaptive
Structuration Theory and discuss your experiences
with that element.
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- COM 310 Week 3 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 3 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 17 discusses the Organizational
Information Theory and the associated concept of
"equivocality". Recall an organization in which
you were or are a member (workplace, sports team,
volunteer organization, community group, etc.).
- Chapter 16 of your text discusses the
Organizational Culture Theory. In the
introduction to the chapter there is a story
about Fran Callahan and her job with Jewelry
Plus. How do you think employees like Fran
Callahan can successfully ease into a new
organizational culture?
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- COM 310 Week 3 Individual Assignment Assessing
Your Organizations Values (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 3 Learning Team Script Project
Action Plan (UOP Course)
- Write a 900- to 1,200-word paper in which you
analyze the values of the organization for which
you work. Observe and analyze the corporate or
business culture. Include the structure of the
organization and information sharing practices.
- Complete the Week Three section of the University
of Phoenix Material Final Learning Team Script
Project located in Week Two of the COM310
ecampus page. Instructions and details of the
assignment are included. Please complete the peer
evaluation form after this assignment is
completed.
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- COM 310 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 4 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 18 of your text discussesAristotle and
his Rhetoric. Aristotle spent a great deal of
time considering the content of a public speech
but also indicates that it is crucial for a
speaker to consider delivery as well. In your
opinion of public speaking, which element is more
important- content or delivery?
- Chapter 22 of your text discusses George Gerbner
and the concept of Cultivation Analysis. For this
discussion question please discuss reality TV
(such as Survivor, Jersey Shore, Real World) and
the extent to which Cultivation theorists would
analyze these shows.
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- COM 310 Week 4 DQ 3 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 4 DQ 4 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 24 of your text discusses the Spiral of
Silence Theory (SST) which rests on public
opinion. One of the assertions of the SST is that
people "seek out the media to confirm or
disconfirm their observations and then interpret
their own observations through the media"
(p.414).
- Chapter 23 of your text discusses the Uses and
Gratifications Theory. What feature of Uses and
Gratifications Theory is most appealing or most
applicable to you? Why? Please incorporate
examples and text references into your response.
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- COM 310 Week 4 Individual Assignment
Communication Theories Paper (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 4 Learning Team Script Project
Appendices (UOP Course)
- Write a 1,900 to 2,700-word paper that applies
three of the communication theories you have
studied so far to your personal and/or
professional life. Please make sure your paper is
written in proper APA format. - First, start off by describing each theorys
primary tenets.
- Complete the Week Four section of the University
of Phoenix MaterialFinal Learning Team Script
Project located in Week Two of the COM310
ecampus page. Instructions and details of the
assignment are included. Please complete the peer
evaluation form after this assignment is
completed.
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- COM 310 Week 5 DQ 1 (UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 5 DQ 2 (UOP Course)
- Chapter 27 of your text discusses the Standpoint
Theory, which includes the concept that there are
multiple truths to any given situation and
therefore communication is based on subjectivity.
If all truths are understood as coming from some
subjective standpoint, how is it possible for
people to communicate?
- Chapter 29 of your text introduces the
Communication Accommodation Theory which defines
accommodation as the ability to (typically
unconsciously) "adjust, modify, or regulate one's
behavior in response to another" (p.495). Why is
it useful to engage in communication
accommodation when interacting with other groups?
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- COM 310 Week 5 Individual Assignment Television
News Program Analysis Assignment(UOP Course)
- COM 310 Week 5 Learning Team Project Final
Scripts (UOP Course)
- Watch television news coverage of the same story
on three different TV networks to address the
following three questions. Write an analysis of
your findings in a 1,400- to 1,750-word paper.
Include how the three different forms of coverage
of the same news story are portrayed and how the
segments are framed with regard to presentation
and bias.
- Complete the Week Five section of the University
of Phoenix Material Final Learning Team Script
Project located in Week Two of the COM/310
student website. Instructions and details of the
assignment are included.
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- COM 310 Week 5 Summary (UOP Course)
- Write a 350-500 words summary of the course
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