COMS 540 - Listening and Nonverbal Communication

Instructional Method: Three hours lecture/discussion.
Prerequisites: Graduate standing and instructor’s permission.
Emphasis on theoretical and practical considerations of human awareness and attention, perception and reception of auditory, visual and nonverbal codifications; processing, reception and representation of the spoken word (psycholinguistics), image formation and visualization, as well as other semiotic processes such as kinesics, proxemics, paralinguistics, haptics and chronemics. Explores audience reception in personal as well as mediated contexts in terms of recent developments in brain/ main research and theory.