Collective Decision Making and Communication in Organizations (364-CN-16)
Instructors
Jen Baker
Jen Baker has been teaching communication studies courses for 10 years, specifically relational communication, group communication, and business communication. She has degrees in Advertising, English, and Communication Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. While living in Austin, Jen worked at a marketing company, was a technical writer for an engineering company, produced a radio show on relational communication, "Love, Sex, and Why we Bother," and founded an inner-city high school speech/debate team. She also taught classes for the University of Texas, before moving into a position lecturing and advising at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. Currently, she is an adjunct lecturer for the School of Professional Studies at Northwestern University. On a final note, teaching is Jen's first love, as evidenced by being called the happiest professor that a student has ever known.
Meeting Info
Online: Thurs 6:15PM - 9:15PM
Overview of class
This course examines collective decision-making and communication in organizations through a survey of research surrounding group decision-making, while also considering organizational culture and organizational change. The course has strong participation and experiential components, including working on a team for a variety of projects to process, utilize, analyze, and appraise the research that we discuss and read. This course is based on experiential learning, a process that incorporates prior and new knowledge with activities, ending with a reflection which leads to new knowledge.
Class Attributes
Synchronous:Class meets remotely at scheduled time