Human Communication

post has three assignments

1: Analyze a business communication situation. o Describe the communication context of this situation. • 2: Analyze the interrelationships of communication within organizational systems. o Identify the source and the receiver. o Compare the intended and actual effects of the message. o Assess whether a shared meaning or shared reality was constructed. • 3: Communicate effectively. o Describe the message and its function. o Explain how the message was encoded and decoded. o Explain how a channel or channels are used to transmit a message. o Describe the type(s) of noise experienced. o

2:Identity Politics

Essay 3: “The Invention of Heterosexuality’ by Jonathan Ned Katz

Essay 5: “Racial Formations” by Michael Omi and Howard Winant

Essay 9: “Bringing Classism Into the Race and Gender Picture” by Chuck Barone

Essay 12: “What White Supremacists Taught a Jewish Scholar About IdentitY’ by Abby L- Ferber

Explore the meaning of identity politics, drawing on the readings in the resources- Consider, for example, the following questions:

1- How did people become identified, historically, as heterosexual or homosexual (note that these specific distinctions were unknown until the latter part of the
nineteenth century)?

2-How have people become pegged, as it were, to their ethnic group? (Note that St- Augustine in the fourth century CE may have been “black,” that is, Afro-
Roman; it would not have occurred to the Romans to mention his “ethnicity-“)

3- Speculate as to why these distinctions are so important to Americans- What do they say about American culture?

3:Developing Health Education

Consider the following scenario-

As a school nurse, you conduct an assessment of the elementary school- Among your list of problems are inactivity, obesity, and lack of knowledge of healthy
food choices-

1- Develop a plan of action to help the school improve the health of its students-

2- Evaluate which methods of assessment (quantitative and qualitative), intervention, and evaluation will be most appropriate to help change this specific
environment-

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