You be the Judge

From Gamble and Gamble (2006): Imagine the following situation. You have a campus job working nights from 6:00pm to midnight in the campus computer lab. It is late and you are alone. You feel particularly uncomfortable because there has been an increase in campus crime and students have been warned to travel in pairs. You are relieved when 12:00am comes and you can leave for home. As you close and begin to lock the door to the computer lab, you hear someone yell, “Wait! Don’t lock the door!” A person runs down the hall towards you and pleads with you to let them into the computer lab so that they can complete a class project that is due the next day. In the haste to get to the lab the person tells you that they forgot their id. You do not recognize the student. Do you trust what they are telling you? Do you let them in and why?

How would the decision you make change (if at all) if the student was female or male? Had a baby face? Was elderly? Was African American, White, Asian or Arab? Poorly dressed? Well dressed? Was wearing a lab coat? Had tattoos? Had body piercings?

Share your reflections while focusing on the concepts of stereotypes and the meaning of communication codes.

1. Explicitly address the selected prompt.

2. Be a maximum length of four (4) pages (12 point font, Times New Roman or Calibri, double-spaced). If you are pursuing the group option, the maximum number of pages is 6 (six). The works cited and title pages do not count towards that limit.

3. Written with clarity and grace (style, structure and mechanics).

4. Incorporate theory and/or scholarly research for at least one of the communication concepts that we have covered in the course (e.g. interpersonal, non-verbal communication).

5. Cite (in text and in the reference list) at least two scholarly sources outside the materials used in the course with an acceptable/established citation format to support your postion.

6. Written in MLA format

Scholarly vs. Non-Scholarly Sources:

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Textbook ISBN: 978 - 1- 5249 - 7695 - 8 (If needed)