COMM 409 Nonviolent Communication Seminar

This seminar-style course explores emerging and enduring scholarship and community-involved social justice and change guest speakers. It will introduce you to the humanistic psychologist and activist Dr. Marshall B. Rosenberg’s principles of nonviolent individual and group communication. As part of your final project, you will apply Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolence principles and steps within a particular community in Chicago to provide a co-created plan with the community members.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

Identify and appropriately apply Dr. Marshal B. Rosenberg’s principles of nonviolent communication
Annotate media texts (written, recorded and videotaped) to collect information about an identified community
Connect Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s six steps of Nonviolence to a particular community in Chicago
Co-create a comprehensive community project plan informed by nonviolent communication together with community members

Repeatable: N
Requirements Junior Standing or Above (JR) N/A
Minimum Credits 3 Maximum Credits 3