Graduate study in the area of interpersonal communication involves primarily qualitative approaches to the study of everyday interpersonal communication in various relational settings, including friendship, family, workplace, and intimate relationships. Methodological training includes ethnography, conversation analysis, focus groups, case studies, and other interpretive methods. Additional coursework is offered in family communication, interpersonal conflict, social construction of gender and identity, relational communication, language and culture, health communication, organizational communication, and performance in everyday life.
Recent graduate course offerings in Interpersonal Communication include:
- 440 Language Behavior
- 444 Studies in Language Acquisition
- 461 Laboratory in Interpersonal Communication
- 463 Interpersonal Conflict
- 546 Conversation Analysis Pragmatics
- 564 Family Communication
For a complete listing of graduate courses, please click on the course offerings link.
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