Week 1 – Discussion 1

Prior to completing this discussion, read Chapters 1 and 4 from your textbook. Choose a subculture with which you are familiar. This subculture could be your place of employment, an organization to which you belong, or any other subgroup you choose and complete the Subculture Study Worksheetfor this subculture. List your answers to the seven questions on the worksheet and post your conclusions.

Support your claims with examples from required materials and/or scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.

Week 1 – Discussion 2

Race and Gender in Communication

Prior to completing this discussion, read Chapter 9 in your textbook. For this discussion, you should compare your communication (either online or in person) with members of your own racial group versus your communication with members of other racial groups, and your communication with members of your own gender versus your communication with members of the opposite gender. What about situations where you are communicating online with someone of unknown race and/or gender? And how might your communication change if you do learn their race or gender? Try to put yourself in the place of those others to see the communication from their point of view and share your observations on how race and gender influence the communication process.

Support your claims with examples from required materials and/or scholarly, peer-reviewed, or credible resources, and properly cite any references. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ posts by Day 7.