SOC 237 - Comm and Relationships and Tech

WR 115  or designated placement

WR 115Q  as required

Course Description: Introduces students to the personal and social perspectives of communicating through technology and focuses on the implications of computer-mediated communication. Current themes and theories focusing on the use of technology to communicate within relationships and to gain access to resources such as health care and education are introduced and applied. A variety of topics will be explored, including online relationships, social interactions, the workplace, web-based instruction, impression management, therapy and health care. Concepts such as ethics, confidentiality, accessibility, identity, trust, and global implications will be explored.

Course Learning Outcomes:

• CLO#1: Explain and analyze communication processes utilized on the internet.
• CLO#2: Describe current communication issues that are changing the way in which we live and interact with one another nationally and globally.
• CLO#3: Identify critical research on computer meditated communication (CMC), current trends and issues and apply this research to what students are observing in their everyday lives.
• CLO#4: Apply a cross-cultural and global perspective of the diversity of CMC contexts through the reading and critical analysis of CMC research, case studies, and popular accounts. (ILO: Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Global Consciousness)