Communication Studies
COMM 2131: Dark Side of Interpersonal Communication
Lecture - 4 credits
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- Offers students an opportunity to learn about some of the communicative challenges people face in starting, maintaining, and terminating close relationships.
- The “dark side” is a metaphor used to describe areas of interpersonal and relational communication that are underexplored or “lying in the shadows”; destructive or dysfunctional; and/or poorly understood or often misinterpreted.
- The dark side perspective acknowledges that while relationships are often a source of joy and satisfaction, they can also elicit feelings of uncertainty, frustration, and pain.
- Studies the ways in which communication can influence (and possibly resolve) turmoil in close relationships.
Offers students an opportunity to learn about some of the communicative challenges people face in starting, maintaining, and terminating close relationships. Show more.