Please write a 550 word reflection narrative that demonstrates how a Communication Studies major prepares you for a User Experience (UX) career (classes from major are listed below). Consider the following questions:
*What are your career goals (to become a ux designer)?
*How does Communication Studies prepare you to meet these career goals?
*What can one learn about their self and career goals during an internship?
Please do not simply answer these questions. You need to construct a coherent narrative that is organized in a clear way that anyone can pick up and understand.
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COMS 203 – COMMUNICATION & EVERYDAY LIFE
This course examines how the communication experiences in daily life – interactions with friends, family, significant others, peers, and coworkers – are illuminated by interpersonal communication theory. Throughout this course, students engage with a variety of materials designed to enhance both their analytic and experiential knowledge about everyday communication.
COMS 252 – CRITICAL & RHETORICAL METHODS
This course explores methods for close textual reading and analysis. Students study a number of theoretical approaches to rhetorical criticism and apply those theories in analyzing speeches, essays, images, public spaces, and other texts.
COMS 350 – NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION
Theoretical approaches and methods to study nonverbal communication. Focus on individual and cultural differences; functions by stage and type of social relationships.
COMS 372 – COMM,DISABILITY & SOC JUST
An advanced service-learning course designed to examine the attitudes and perceptions of and toward persons with disabilities, how communication creates and perpetuates an inaccurate and unjust depiction of disabled persons, the communicative behaviors of persons who are disabled and the nondisabled during their interaction, and how theories of communication and social justice can illuminate how this socially interactive inequity may be remedied.
