ComS 207 Dyadic Communication
Spring 2012 Tentative Course Calendar
Week #
Class Activity
Course orientation
Getting to know each other
Week 1 Considering dyadic
communication as an area
1/24
of study
Assignment for next week's meeting
(readings other than main text (Linell) should be
downloaded from URL in pre-course email)
Assignment for next week's meeting:
Mead-Social Foundations of Thought
Roloff & Anastasiou--Interpersonal Research
Berger--Interpersonal Comm.Theoretical
Perspectives
The nature of the research;
potentials for expanding it;
other ways of theorizing
Week 2
Presenter:
1/31
Linell Chapts 1, 2 (main text); Graumann-Commonality...
Luckmann--Social Communication
1. Parades
2. Patterson
3.Szehner
Monologism v. dialogism
Presenters:
Week 3
2/7
4. Tavakolian
5.Thompson
6.Viscuso
Linell-Chapts 3,4
Markova--A Three Step Process;
Malloy & Albright--Dyadic Research Designs
What can we know about
dyadic communication; how
can we know it? (Research
methods)
Week 4 Presenters:
7.Adams
2/14
Linell--Chapts 5,6
8.Alder
9.Clark
Contracts due
Week 5
2/21
Presenters:
10.Conley
Linell--Chapts 7,8
11.Coyne
Presenters:
Week 6
2/28
12.Keyes
13.Murphy
Linell--Chapts 9,10
Term Project proposals due
Prep for mid-term
Week 7 Mid-term exam 1.5 hours
3/6
Linell--Chapt 11
Suchmann--Communicative Resources
"Communicative Projects" as
essential dyadic purpose?
Week 8
3/13
14.Navarrete
After tonight, contracts are “locked”
15.
3/24
Week 9 Progress report to class
3/27
Spring Break
Week 10
4/3
Rough drafts due
Week 11
Course evaluation
4/10
Week 12
4/17
Project presentations
Week 13
Writing Day
4/24
Week
14
5/1
Project presentations
Week
15
Project presentations
5/8
Presentations will be 15 min. presentation; 10
min. Q & A.
Presentations will be 15 min. presentation; 10
min. Q & A.
Final Exam Period
5/15
5:15PM-8:15PM
2 hour exam