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2. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Entire Course COM 310 Week 1 DQ 1 Please study the syllabus to familiarize yourself with the objectives we will be covering in this course. What are your expectations of this class? Do you have any preconceived notions when you hear the term "Communication Theory"? • COM 310 Week 1 Individual Assignment Communication Introduction Worksheet • COM 310 Week 1 DQ 1 • COM 310 Week 1 DQ 2 • COM 310 Week 1 DQ 3 • COM 310 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Communication Theories Matrix • COM 310 Week 2 DQ 1

3. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 1 DQ 2 COM 310 Week 1 DQ 3 I realize this is the last day of Week 1, but I wanted to post this anyway, just to highlight another theory from the Week 1 reading. It is perfectly fine for this discussion to carry into the first few days of Week 2.) • Week 1 DQ 2 • Your text discusses the concept of individual "fields of experience". How does a person's field of experience influence a communication event?

4. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM310 Week 1 Individual Assignment Communication Introduction Worksheet COM 310 Week 2 DQ 1 Chapter 9 of your text discusses the Uncertainty Reduction Theory which is the only communication theory devoted to initial interactions. There are seven axioms of URT. • Complete the University of Phoenix Material “Communication Introduction Worksheet” located in Week One of the COM310 ecampus page. Instructions and details of the assignment are included.

5. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 2 DQ 2 COM 310 Week 2 DQ 3 Chapter 13 of your text discusses the Communication Privacy Management Theory, which is a practical theory designed to explain the everyday issue of whether or not to tell someone something. • Chapter 10 of your text discusses the Social Penetration Theory which involves self-disclosure. What are the consequences of poorly planned or inappropriate self-disclosure?

6. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 2 DQ4 COM310 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment Communication Theories Matrix Week 1 Individual Assignment Marketing Communications ProcessResources: Ch. 1 & 5 of Advertising and Promotion and the University LibraryWrite a 750- to 1,050-word paper in which you examine marketing communications produced by an organization • Chapter 11 of your text discusses the Social Exchange Theory which is based on the notion that people review and weigh their relationships in terms of costs and rewards

7. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 3 DQ 1 COM 310 Week 3 DQ 2 Chapter 15 of your text discusses the Adaptive Structuration Theory. This theory has three main components: Agency and reflexivity, duality of structure, and social integration • Week 3 DQ 1 • Chapter 14 of your text discusses the concept of Groupthink. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages associated with having a high level of cohesiveness among members of a group.

8. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 3 DQ 3 COM 310 Week 3 DQ 4 Week 3 DQ 4 Chapter 16 of your text discusses the Organizational Culture Theory. In the introduction to the chapter there is a story about Fran Callahan and her job with Jewelry Plus. • Chapter 17 discusses the Organizational Information Theory and the associated concept of "equivocality". Recall an organization in which you were or are a member (workplace, sports team, volunteer organization,

9. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 3 Individual Assignment Assessing Your Organization’s Values COM310 Week 3 Learning Team Script Project Action Plan Learning Team Script Project: Action Plan (Learning Team) Complete the Week Three section of the University of Phoenix Material “Final Learning Team Script Project” located in Week Two of the COM310 ecampus page. • Write a 900- to 1,200-word paper in which you analyze the values of the organization for which you work. Observe and analyze the corporate or business culture. Include the structure of the organization and

10. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 5 Individual Assignment Television News Program Analysis Assignment COM 310 Week 5 Learning Team Project Final Scripts Complete the Week Five section of the University of Phoenix Material “Final Learning Team Script Project” located in Week Two of the COM/310 student website. Instructions and details of the assignment are included.  • Watch television news coverage of the same story on three different TV networks to address the following three questions.

11. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 4 DQ 1 COM 310 Week 4 DQ 2 Week 4 DQ 2 Chapter 22 of your text discusses George Gerbner and the concept of Cultivation Analysis. For this discussion question please discuss “reality TV” (such as: Survivor, Jersey Shore, Real World) and the extent • Week 4 DQ 1 • Chapter 18 of your text discussesAristotle and his Rhetoric. Aristotle spent a great deal of time considering the content of a public speech but also indicates that it is crucial for a speaker to consider delivery as well.

12. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 4 DQ 3 COM 310 Week 4 DQ 4 Week 4 DQ 4 Chapter 23 of your text discusses the Uses and Gratifications Theory. What feature of Uses and Gratifications Theory is most appealing or most applicable to you? • Week 4 DQ 3 • Chapter 24 of your text discusses the Spiral of Silence Theory (SST) which rests on public opinion. One of the assertions of the SST is that people "seek out the media to confirm or disconfirm their observations

13. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM310 Week 4 Individual Assignment Communication Theories Paper COM310 Week 4 Learning Team Script Project Appendices Learning Team Script Project: Appendixes (Learning Team) Complete the Week Four section of the University of Phoenix Material“Final Learning Team Script Project” located in Week Two of the COM310 ecampus page. • Communication Theories Paper (Individual) • Write a 1,900 to 2,700-word paper that applies three of the communication theories you have studied so far to your personal and/or professional life. Please make sure your paper is written in proper APA format

14. COM 310 Phoenix Course Tutorial COM 310 Week 5 DQ 1 COM 310 Week 5 DQ 2 Week 5 DQ 2 Chapter 29 of your text introduces the Communication Accommodation Theory which defines accommodation as the ability to (typically unconsciously) "adjust, modify, or regulate one's behavior in response to another" (p.495). • Week 5 DQ 1 • Chapter 27 of your text discusses the Standpoint Theory, which includes the concept that there are multiple truths to any given situation and therefore communication is based on subjectivity.

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