COMM 450 Nonverbal Communication
The course will concentrate on nonverbalcommunication in human interaction. Students will be taught to observe and evaluate the nonverbal language that interacts with verbalcommunication. The objective is to become more sensitive to how people communicate by touch(haptics), space between people (proxemics),personal appearance, environmental settings,group dynamics, body movements (kinesics),vocal sounds (vocalics), smells (olfactions),time (chronemics),and other channels of nonverbal communication. The course is taughtwith discussions based on the professor's andstudent's oral presentations.