COMM 130
Cultural Factors in Interpersonal Communication
Description: Lecture, three hours. Introduction to scientific foundations of psycholinguistics, and connections to applied issues in communication. Survey of various scientific methods, and how they are applied to key issues in language and communication. Discussion of how we can measure meanings of words, complexity of sentences, and study of how these are processed (and produced) during communication. Includes some hands-on exercises, including learning some scientific tools that can be used both in future research and in field. Letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0
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Spring 2019 - This class is mislabed, it is actually called: Science of Language. This class is awesome, it consists of weekly quizzes, 2 labs, and a final project. Professor Dale is probably the only good comm professor at UCLA. He is hilarious, kind, very helpful, quick at emails, and always wanting to see his students succeed. This is my third class with him. Take him, you will not regret it.
Spring 2019 - This class is mislabed, it is actually called: Science of Language. This class is awesome, it consists of weekly quizzes, 2 labs, and a final project. Professor Dale is probably the only good comm professor at UCLA. He is hilarious, kind, very helpful, quick at emails, and always wanting to see his students succeed. This is my third class with him. Take him, you will not regret it.
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I am personally a huge fan of Kelly (I refer to him as BK for Bill Kelly) but it's more as a weird infatuation with his sweaters and how he sounds a little like Christopher Walken. Class wise, here's the rundown: Structure: The class is consisted of two 30 question multiple choice tests that are 30% of your grade each and one 5-page MAXIMUM paper that's worth 40%. I feel like the tests are fair and they take a good mix from lectures and readings. Content: Really interesting class that goes into the stereotypes and conflicts dealing with individual cultures and sub-cultures as well as class, race and gender within said cultures. BK puts most of the readings online so you don't really have to buy the reader. Difficulty: Of course, this is why everyone comes on this website. I have taken two of his classes and gotten a B+ both times. I don't do all of the readings and I missed a fair amount of lecture as well. Had I done everything, I feel like I would have gotten an A- at least. I'm not a very good multiple choice test taker as well so if that's a forte of yours, BK is your guy.
I am personally a huge fan of Kelly (I refer to him as BK for Bill Kelly) but it's more as a weird infatuation with his sweaters and how he sounds a little like Christopher Walken. Class wise, here's the rundown: Structure: The class is consisted of two 30 question multiple choice tests that are 30% of your grade each and one 5-page MAXIMUM paper that's worth 40%. I feel like the tests are fair and they take a good mix from lectures and readings. Content: Really interesting class that goes into the stereotypes and conflicts dealing with individual cultures and sub-cultures as well as class, race and gender within said cultures. BK puts most of the readings online so you don't really have to buy the reader. Difficulty: Of course, this is why everyone comes on this website. I have taken two of his classes and gotten a B+ both times. I don't do all of the readings and I missed a fair amount of lecture as well. Had I done everything, I feel like I would have gotten an A- at least. I'm not a very good multiple choice test taker as well so if that's a forte of yours, BK is your guy.
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