Speech Communication Program
Central Oregon Community College
Speech Communication Student Learning Outcomes
COCC
Catalog Credit Course
Descriptions for
Speech Communication
Speech Program Outcomes (May 2007)
1. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between self-presentation and feedback in personal, social, or public settings.
2. Students will interpret and use nonverbal messages to enhance the effectiveness of their messages.
3. Students will analyze, orally and/or in writing, their own and other students’ communication behaviors.
4. Students will exhibit technical skill in the construction of targeted messages.
5. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the way situation variables, including personal history, ethical choices, and the socio-cultural environment impact the meaning of shared messages.
6. Students will apply a range of decoding strategies to comprehend, analyze, interpret, and evaluate a variety of verbal and nonverbal messages.
1. Students will plan, arrange, and distinguish speeches for different purposes, including speeches that entertain, inform and persuade.
2. Students will develop support, including researched authorities, for their speeches.
3. Students will craft verbal and nonverbal messages to suit particular audiences and purposes.
4. Students will deliver timed speeches before audiences and respond to audience questions.
5. Students will evaluate their own and others' speaking, identifying aspects of preparation, arrangement, critical thinking, and delivery.
6. Students will prepare and use visual aids.
7. Students will be able to articulate the purpose and thesis of any oral presentation.
Revised May 2007
SP 115 *MIC: Intercultural Communication
*MIC
[Multicultural Infusion Course]
1. Students will be able to define culture and to identify ways in which culture influences communication.
2. Students will recognize and demonstrate the behaviors which represent open-mindedness.
3. Students will participate in at least two intercultural simulations
4. Students will identify and report on three symptoms of culture shock and two remedies for culture shock.
5. Students will identify and report on at least two standard taxonomies of cultural difference.
6. Students will be able to identify five features of their own culturally specific communication.
7. Students will research differences in at least two distinct cultures.
8. Students will recognize and analyze the relationships among culturally held values and cultural standards for behavior.
9. Students will demonstrate their ability to adapt to the perceptions of individuals from different cultures.
12/9/98
SP 218: Interpersonal Communication
1. Students will explain the transactional model of communication and describe how messages may be sent and received at both conscious and unconscious levels.
2. Students will describe the behaviors and attitudes used by the competent communicator who adapts appropriately to contexts, other people, and the communicator's goals.
3. Students will recognize the messages used to construct and maintain individual and group identity.
4. Students will recognize that perceptions vary and demonstrate the ability to perform perception checks.
5. Students will recognize emotional triggers, identify the differences between emotions and actions and practice the proper language to express emotions in a competent way.
6. Students will demonstrate active listening through the use of paraphrasing, authentic questions, and reflecting.
7. Students will identify and demonstrate communication behaviors which contribute to the creation of a positive psychological climate.
8. Students will demonstrate how to respond non-defensively to criticism.
9. Students will recognize that conflict is natural and demonstrate competent methods of conflict management.
10. Students will explain the steps of win-win conflict resolution, including the clear message format for asking for behavioral change.
12/9/98
SP 219: Small Group Communication
1. Students will explain the transactional model of communication and describe how messages may be sent and received at both conscious and unconscious levels.
2. Students will describe the behaviors and attitudes used by the competent communicator who adapts appropriately to contexts, other people, and the communicator's goals.
3. Students will explain and analyze the differences between a "me" orientation and a "we" orientation to problem solving.
4. Students will explain and analyze the systemic nature of teams.
5. Students will recognize the cyclical nature of team development, create appropriately negotiated norms for group maintenance and performance enhancement and adapt to the tensions of the storming stage.
6. Students will recognize and describe roles necessary for task performance and team maintenance, including the role of leader.
7. Students will recognize and demonstrate the behaviors which produce a positive team climate.
8. Students will recognize and analyze their own power resources and those of other team members.
9. Students will perform appropriate research tasks in the small group setting.
10. Students will analyze and report on the communication skills needed for managing conflict and tension in the small group setting.
11/24/98
SP 241: Media, Communication, and Society
1. Students will be able to define the term "media," and construct a chronology of the technical innovations of media from handwriting to digital communication forms.
2. Using key points in the history of media, students will be able to explain the impact of media on culture--particularly noetics, the transmission and storage of knowledge.
3. Students will be able to distinguish between the following functions of media: The informative and entertaining functions; the commercial and the public-service functions.
4. Students will be able to evaluate the impact of advertising on the content of media production.
5. Students will be able to evaluate the impact media in two or more political contests.
6. Students will be able to review the changing concept of the ownership of ideas and language through the history of media. Students will demonstrate a knowledge of current copyright laws and fair use guidelines for their own media productions.
7. Students will be able to list three or more transnational media corporations and be able to present arguments for and against the existence of such large corporations.
8. Students will identify three academic and/or governmental responses to the existence of transnational media corporations.
9. Students will be able to list three examples of reputable "alternative" media sources.
10. Students will be able to discuss the starting and middle level jobs in at least three branches of the media (e.g.: newspapers, web design, radio, etc.)
3/20/01
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