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This assignment is intended to facilitate a greater awareness of how our course content matters beyond the walls of the classroom and challenge you to critically think about/analyze what is transpiring in the world around you – or suggest what should be taking place instead in order to improve interpersonal relations. Students may select topics from the host of topics discussed in class, prompted by the course readings, discovered through research, suggested by the professor, or otherwise newly identified by you that are clearly relevant to issues associated with interpersonal relations. Your presentation should demonstrate your learning and teach/educate/persuade (or otherwise have potential for creating a meaningful impact on a public audience as if the presentation were to be published).
You are NOT solely speaking to yourself or for the professor. Thus, the content of your presentation must demonstrate awareness of an intended public audience. For example, is your intended audience -- parents, college students, resident life assistants, children, work supervisors/managers, neighborhood/community groups, immigrants, new social workers, new counselors, police officers, people working with others who are differently abled, people in conflict, etc.) and have clear value for, and impact on them. Save your generalized views and reactions or “thoughts-to-self” type of writing for your critical reading notebooks.
Do not simply “recount” or “report” the ideas of the text or article authors….do something of value with those ideas such as demonstrating them/analyzing/evaluating them thoroughly, show how they might generate new ways of acting or new strategies for behavior, etc. This is about thinking critically and creating entries for impact -- rather than merely summarizing the work of others!
You are also NOT LIMITED to the ideas that are included in the next section. These ideas/examples should assist you in considering creative ways to approach the type of project you choose to create.
1. VIDEO ROLE PLAYING : Use your I-Phone or borrow a flip camera from the Hopkins Communication Lab to create your own well-edited/well-rehearsed video role plays that demonstrate some aspect or related aspects of interpersonal communication. You may role play by yourselves, or enlist others on or off-campus to assist in the role playing that you direct. [YOU MUST CREAT IT – do not use a pre-existing one!]
You might focus on things that are effective or compare strategies that are ineffective and ones that are more effective or demonstrate greater interpersonal competence.
0. MANY topics are suitable for such role-plays throughout the text -- For example, it might focus on issues/subjects such as: different listening skills, assertiveness vs. non-assertiveness or aggression, content and relational dimensions of messages, empathy, the power of words, the impact of different nonverbal messages, the impact of perception and attributions on interactions with others, methods to improve one’s perceptions, the role of I-statements vs. you statements, conflict strategies, ETC. [There are MANY things you might wish to demonstrate for an audience.]
0. Be sure you carefully analyze and explain what the viewer is supposed to see in the role plays in light of the course literature (with oral commentary).
1. OBSERVATION VIDEO RECORD: Use your I-Phone or borrow a camera from the Hopkins Communication Lab and record interactions in public spaces (cafeteria, student lounge, sidewalks in Oakland, in a park, as an athletic event, etc.) that allow you to analyze them on very specific aspects of interpersonal interaction.
1. Do not globally evaluate the whole observation video…but CUT apart SIGNIFICANT PIECES of the much longer entire video your recorded that are particularly relevant for analysis and reflection. You may have a few short pieces from the same hour of footage or a bit longer but deeper clip as the point of your discussion/commentary.
1. Again…topics are many and variable. You may even see topics of value from two different parts of the reading or from two different issues that are worthy of analysis in the observed interactions. For example, you may focus on nonverbal communication such the use of eye contact, gestures, time, touch, and how they impacted the quality or nature of the interaction between the individuals.
1. You might also NOT film something...but take a partner to be the observer or recorder of how people respond to violations of nonverbal norms, or how they respond to you when you walk into an unfamiliar or culturally different setting, etc.
1. Be cautious – NEVER put yourself at risk by violating norms of behavior that could be seen as threatening or offensive!
1. PODCAST – Create or find a brief podcast that is relevant to interpersonal relations and provide the link and your integrated commentary/analysis of it to help the listener further. That is… cut the podcast into pieces or, if not possible, give start and stop times within the podcast so you can integrate your analysis WITH the content of the podcast…rather than just appending it to the end. Integration tends to keep audience more engaged and directs them to important points along the way.
2. [The podcast might be a news story, a PBS oral essay, a piece from talk radio, a political speech, your oral interpretation of a piece of literature; or some other form of communication that seems relevant to interpersonal communication.]
1. WRITE an EDITORIAL OR CREATE a short PERSUASIVE VIDEO – that advocates for some meaningful change in the manner in which the specific intended audience interacts interpersonally.
3. What specific style, strategy, or form of interaction is problematic and why? Why is it critical that they do something different with their communication? What specific NEW strategy or style should they adopt? What hurdles might they encounter in trying this new behavior with others and how can they overcome them?
3. [Be sure it is informed by the literature…but do NOT just summarize someone else’s article and say your audience should do it too. Be sure it is supported by the research/literature.
1. ANALYZE the COMMUNICATIVE MESSAGES IN MUSIC
4. Consider a particular song or two (provide the link to the music/performance/music video AND provide a transcription of the lyrics).
4. Analyze what it teaches that is valuable or problematic about interpersonal relations (in light of the literature) and why? For example, how does it influence what people believe about violence, abuse, self-concept, peers, family, dating, friendships, social relations, power, conflict or… something else!
4. You need to do specific commentary here…rather than globalized evaluation of the broad impact.
1. ANALYSIS of SOME SPECIFIC EVENT OR EXPERIENCE ON CAMPUS or in the COMMUNITY
5. Be sure that it is specific in nature and has value and relevance beyond you. In other words…why should the audience care about this experience or event? In what specific and meaningful ways can they learn from this experience and be inspired to change their own interpersonal communicative behavior or advocate for changes on campus or in that Community?
1. OTHER OPTIONS —YOU may have some other creative idea for the form/approach of this presentation. That’s great! You are not limited to what appears above. Other options for entries that create meaning and value for the intended audience are fine!
6. I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE you to discuss other ideas you may have IN ADVANCE with the Professor to assure that it is relevant.
