Students will develop day-to-day communication skills for effective relationship, social, and business interactions.
Students will develop the ability to initiate and encourage meaningful dialogue that progresses from surface to deeper levels.
Students will be provided tools for self-discovery.
Students will develop the ability to control degrees of openness and self-disclosure.
Students will develop the ability to compliment, reinforce, and reward.
Students will develop the ability, through assertive communication techniques, to establish, maintain, and relinquish control.
Students will develop skills for effective conflict management.
Students will develop the ability to listen actively and to use what is said to create a meaningful dialogue.
Students will develop the ability to decipher both relational and content messages and to be sensitive to the verbal and nonverbal cues through which relational messages are often sent.