COMM 101- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 41 pages long!)

• School: UNL
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 101
• Professor: Bonander

Document Summary

Studying communication can improve the way you see yourself. Our knowledge and perceptions of self are based on communication. Communication helps us to develop self-awareness, self-concept, and self-efficacy. Studying communication can improve the way others see you. Concepts such as self-presentation, identity management, and locus of control influence how others perceive us. Studying communication can increase what you know about human relationships. Communication helps us learn about relationships and interactions. Studying communication can teach you important life skills. Skills such as: critical thinking, problem solving, decision making, conflict resolution, team building, media literacy, and public speaking. Studying communication can help you exercise your constitutionally guaranteed rights to freedom of speech. Communication helps you participate in a democratic society. Employers now rank good communication skills as the #1 skill they are looking for in gallup polls, ahead of computer skills. A yahoo survey of employers ranked communication studies as the #2 most desirable major.