CO620A

This course provides an intersectional approach to understanding how difference-particularly race, culture, gender, sexuality, disability, and mental health-is constructed in and through communication. Grounded in the social scientific study of communication as human behavior related to meaning and messages, this course will teach students to engage with how these facets of identity affect and are affected by communication in contexts such as media, organizations, interpersonal relationships, and families. The course culminates in a hybrid final project that applies synthesis of academic research to public-facing communication for improving occupational fields, institutions, and communities.