Interpersonal Communication OER

This is for a lower division Interpersonal Communications course. This is for use with an OER Textbook called Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships that was written by others. There are links to the OER textbook, Student Workbook and Instructor's Manual. All three are OERs with separate licenses (please respect their OER license). Andersen does not claim ownership of any of the works, they merely curated and organized this shell. Feel free to use however you wish, continue to improve it, and please share your work with others in the community. Andersen released the course as CC0, but notes that it is built around a CC-BY-NC-SA text and incorporates resources with divergent copyright permissions. Please be mindful as you adopt and adapt.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: William Andersen

Interpersonal Communication COMS 246

The following chapters will cover topics such as: dealing with conflict, how to communicate in professional and personal relationships, and self-presentation in communication. There are two types of interactive features in this book to help you, the student, engage with the various concepts and procedures behind interpersonal communications.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Tammera Stokes Rice, Victoria Leonard

Listening with Power (from Theory)

Listening is the least emphasized mode of communication. As such, it deserves a more thorough treatment. Upon scanning the OER landscape to determine existing opportunities to learn about listening, it was discovered most are devoted to the practical skills of listening. However, much can be learned by learning about the theories and research of listening.Therefore, this module is intended to serve as either a stand-alone learning module on listening or a more advanced module that can be added to other more practically-oriented modules. This module introduces students to academic study of listening and treats listening as a thriving sub-discipline (of interpersonal communications) that can be explored from an academic perspective.It provides sufficient references and resources that can be examined more thoroughly and perhaps even built out into an entire course or mini-course on listening.Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:DEFINE listening using theoretical developments. (Bloom 1)CLASSIFY effective listening practices by affective, behavioral, or cognitive processes. (Bloom 2)USE theoretically-based listening practices to improve communication. (Bloom 3)DEVISE a personal listening strategy based upon theory. (Bloom 4)This module has eight sections: Overview, Engage, Explore, Explain, Evaluate, Elaborate, Express, and Extend.

Material Type: Module

Author: Paul Szwed

Interpersonal Relations

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Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Hostos Community College, Sharese Mitchell

Intercultural Communication for the Community College

In the quest to explore the multiple facets of intercultural communication, this book is divided into three general areas: foundations, elements, and contexts. The foundations cover the basic principles associated with communication studies and culture. The elements move beyond the basics into self, identities, verbal, and nonverbal process associated with communication and culture. Contexts explore all the different environments such as media, business, and education, in which intercultural communication occurs.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Karen Krumrey

Effective Professional Communication: A Rhetorical Approach

Word Count: 108374 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Corey Owen, Rebekah Bennetch, Zachary Keesey

Communication in the Real World: An Introduction to Communication Studies

Overviews the time-tested conceptual foundations of the field, while incorporating the latest research and cutting-edge applications of these basics. Each chapter will include timely, concrete, and real-life examples of communication concepts in action.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: University of Minnesota

Communication Studies - TCC OER Subject Guide: OER starting points

This guide compiles starting points for OER and freely available resources for Communication Studies courses and topics. This OER subject guide was created for TCC faculty and staff and reflects TCC credit, continuing education, and corrections course offerings. The purpose of this guide is to help faculty and staff more easily find and review OER in their areas so that they can make decisions about quality, accuracy, relevancy, and potential use.

Material Type: Reading

Authors: Jennifer Snoek-Brown, Tacoma Community College Library

Introduction to Communication

This textbook is targeted for Introduction to Human Communication courses that introduce students to the study of Communication. The underlying organization addressed the importance of students to be able to answer the question, “What is Communication Study?” in a way that captures the field of Communication appropriately, as well as an important discipline across colleges and universities.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: et al., Laura K. Hahn, Scott T. Paynton

A Primer on Communication Studies

Thorough and useful for remixing.

Material Type: Textbook

COMM10: Survey of Human Communication

A textbook that merges chapters from Communication in the Real World and Public Speaking Project to create a Fundamentals of Oral Communication book.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Elaine Lee

Professional Communications

A Common Approach to Work-place Writing Short Description: This open textbook is designed to support the learning outcomes of Fanshawe College’s first-year Common Communications curriculum and is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that will help with the real, everyday tasks of writing and speaking in their chosen profession. Long Description: This open textbook is designed to support the learning outcomes of Fanshawe College’s first-year Common Communications curriculum and is designed to guide college students in developing the vital communication skills that will help with the real, everyday tasks of writing and speaking in their chosen profession. Organized in five major units— Communication Foundations, Professional Writing Processes, Routine Workplace Communication, Employment and Interpersonal Communication, and Presentations and Group Communication —this opened educational resource is conveniently presented in a variety of AODA-compliant formats and written in the reader-friendly style. Structured around the learning outcomes of Fanshawe’s first-year communications courses, this textbook helps ensure that students graduate with the communication skills necessary to succeed in the modern workplace. Word Count: 221786 (Note: This resource's metadata has been created automatically by reformatting and/or combining the information that the author initially provided as part of a bulk import process.)

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: et al., Jordan Smith, Melissa Ashman

Survey of Communication Study

Welcome to the open source version of Survey of Communication Study. This offers the opportunity to introduce people to Communication as an academic field of study. We have broken the book into two parts. First, we lay the foundation by covering the scope of communication study, its history, as well as a brief introduction to theories and research methods. Second, we provide chapters that survey many of the areas of specialization practiced in the field of Communication today.

Material Type: Textbook

Authors: Laura K. Hahn, Scott T. Paynton

COMM001: Principles of Human Communication

This course will introduce you to communication principles, common communication practices, and a selection of theories to better understand the communication transactions that you experience in your daily life. The principles and practices that you study in this course will provide the foundation for further study in communications.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Saylor Academy

Language and Culture in Context - A Primer on Intercultural Communication

The text introduces some of the key concepts in intercultural communication as traditionally presented in (North American) courses and textbooks, namely the study of differences between cultures, as represented in the works and theories of Edward Hall and Geert Hofstede. Common to these approaches is the prominence of context, leading to a view of human interactions as dynamic and changeable, given the complexity of language and culture, as human agents interact with their environments.

Material Type: Textbook

Author: Robert Godwin-Jones

Introduction to Public Communication

Introduction to Public Communication is an open textbook created specifically for ISU's COMM 101 course. A guiding team of Communication instructors compiled content from other open sources, and wrote original content to complete this text.

Material Type: Textbook

Introduction to Communication & Media

Provides a framework for understanding the impact of media on society and the individual.  The history, organization, economics, theories, and social significance of communication media are surveyed. Special emphasis will be given toward the evolving media environment, how to evaluate media messages, and how to become a better consumer of the media.

Material Type: Unit of Study

Author: Gordon Curry

Gender & Media: Collaborations in Feminism and Technology

This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media, with a particular focus on new media and how digital technologies are transforming popular culture. We will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, (audience) and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, blogs, video, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society.

Material Type: Full Course

Author: K.J. Surkan

Media Resistance: Protest, Dislike, Abstention

Explores media resistance as an integrated part of culture, rather than as incidents of moral or media panic. Draws on political and organizational sources, personal testimonies, fiction and non-fiction bestsellers as well as dystopian films to show how the media are placed in a villainous and disruptive role. Takes a historical perspective, looking at early resistance to books, print, cinema, radio and comics in the 1800s and 1900s; resistance to television in the late 1900s; and resistance to online and social media from around 2000.

Material Type: Reading, Textbook

Author: Trine Syvertsen

Media Manipulation Casebook

The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns. This resource is intended for researchers, journalists, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civil society organizers who want to learn about detecting, documenting, describing, and debunking misinformation, disinformation, and media manipulation.

Material Type: Case Study, Reading

Author: Dr. Joan Donovan