COMM 6160 - Communication and Emotion

Meets with COMM 5160. The class explores various ways in which communication and emotion influence one another. These include: how emotion is a part of all communication, how emotion is communicated verbally and nonverbally, effects of communicating or withholding emotional expression, using communication to influence one's own and others' emotions, the role of emotion in social structure and ritual, and cultural similarities and differences in how emotion is experienced and expressed.