Rochester Community and Technical College · Courses
COMM
13 courses with the subject COMM, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
COMM 1000Introduction to Workplace Communication3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This introductory course is skill based and designed to provide basic communication strategies to build positive relationships in career settings. It focuses on developing skill sets in active listening, perception, conflict management, nonverbal awareness, and non-defensiveness. The goal is to create confidence and competence in various communication contexts, such as customer service, work teams, interviews, and personal relationships. Attention is placed on interpersonal communication, team/small group communication and public speaking. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course surveys Hollywood filmmaking as an art form, economic force, and as a system of cultural communication. Stylistic elements are examined from the perspective of various genres and time periods. Students will learn the language of cinema; increase their understanding of how films work as art and how films communicate meaning as cultural artifacts. Students will also learn analysis skills to becomes more active and critical viewers. (
COMM 1125Oral Interpretation of Literature (MnTC 06, 09)3
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course is highly experiential and introduces and applies the skills of literary analysis for the purpose of oral interpretive performance. Students will be challenged to examine the use of personal voice in literature as a crucial tool in understanding how we, as humans, communicate via the written word and the embodied performance of that word in a democratic society. Students will be challenged to deepen their understanding and practical knowledge as to how various issues of justice, including economic, social, political, environmental and/or equity are expressed in literary works. Students will engage in oral performance literature, including original works, thereby demonstrating how their own and others' voices reflect positions in society, effect change and provide opportunities for free exchange of democratic ideas. (
GOAL 6: THE HUMANITIES AND FINE ARTS ........................................... minimum of 9 CR A minimum of two credits from each of three different areas that meet MnTC Goal 6 Recommended: COMM 1125, Oral Interpretation, 3 cr GOAL 7: HUMAN DIVERSITY………………………………………………………………...….3 CR
GOAL 9: ETHICAL & CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY To be met by a course taken in Goal 3, 5 or 6. GOAL 10: PEOPLE & THE ENVIRONMENT To be met by a course taken in Goal 3, 5 or 6. II. FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE .................................................................................. 0-1 CREDIT*
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline This course allows students to develop a variety of communication skills and an understanding of related communication principles in a professional setting. Coursework prepares students to interview for and work in diverse organizational contexts. College level reading and writing skills; appropriate score on the RCTC placement test or completion of appropriate development courses with grades of C or better. (
3 hours lecture/week - Common Course Outline The course focuses on how communication and culture create, maintain, and change gender. Patterns in women's and men's verbal and nonverbal communication, why these patterns differ, and how communication differences are perceived will be emphasized. This course explores gendered communication in a variety of interpersonal and situational contexts, including the family, friendship, romantic relationships, education, the workplace, and the media. College level reading and writing skills; appropriate score on the RCTC placement test or completion of appropriate development courses with grades of C or better. (Prerequisites:
Credits and hours/week may vary. - Common Course Outline This course focuses on a specific topic chosen by the instructor who teaches the class. This course offers in-depth exploration of a special topic, issue, or trend in the communication field. Topics might include current events (such as a political campaigns class during an election year), professional communication (such as networking, cross-generational issues, mediated/online communication), health communication, and/or more in-depth analyses of industry trends. This is a Category 1 course which may be taken twice for credit. This course may be taken additional times by auditing. Because the course content varies, a student taking the same course number a second time cannot replace the first grade with the second. College level reading and writing required. This is a variable credit course. (Prerequisites: None)
