HCOM312: Cooperative Argumentation
Course Description:
Introduction to cooperative argumentation. Students develop empathic and critical listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills for cooperative deliberation and problem solving practices; apply and assess reasoning and argumentative skills in oral and written communication contexts on various topics. Students learn how Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Pre-Law, Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every semester.) [Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
As you may have noticed in navigating this website, this is the only class that does not have anything what-so-ever to do with Japanese Language or Culture. This class is technically one of my general education requirements held by CSU Monterey Bay, known as a Graduate Writing Assessment (GWAR) course. As such, this course did not offer me any improvement in Japanese, but it did offer me personal improvement. Through this course I learned how to argue in a cooperative, rather than competitive manner; my professor taught us the positives to operating in a calm, cool, and collected way when dealing with tense and highly emotional situations. Our major assignments included a Listening Exercise, in which we were tasked with picking an argument with someone over a controversial issue, and then listening and empathizing with them rather than only seeing our side of the issue; a Persuasive Paper, in which we had to present on a controversial topic, address both sides of the issue, and then explain why our side of the argument was stronger. Our year ended in a group-based Roundtable Debate, in which we dissected and then argued important issues as groups.
Over all this course has had quite an effect on me as a person and I find myself in a more empathetic and yet logical mindset than I was previous to starting this semester. The techniques I learned have placed me in a few interesting if not eye-opening situations that in turn taught me more about myself and the people around me. It also served as a wonderful refresher course on writing and presenting.
Introduction to cooperative argumentation. Students develop empathic and critical listening, reading, writing, and speaking skills for cooperative deliberation and problem solving practices; apply and assess reasoning and argumentative skills in oral and written communication contexts on various topics. Students learn how Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 1 or the concentrations in Peace Studies, Pre-Law, Practical and Professional Ethics or Writing and Rhetoric. (Offered every semester.) [Prereq: (GE Area A1 and A2 and A3) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
As you may have noticed in navigating this website, this is the only class that does not have anything what-so-ever to do with Japanese Language or Culture. This class is technically one of my general education requirements held by CSU Monterey Bay, known as a Graduate Writing Assessment (GWAR) course. As such, this course did not offer me any improvement in Japanese, but it did offer me personal improvement. Through this course I learned how to argue in a cooperative, rather than competitive manner; my professor taught us the positives to operating in a calm, cool, and collected way when dealing with tense and highly emotional situations. Our major assignments included a Listening Exercise, in which we were tasked with picking an argument with someone over a controversial issue, and then listening and empathizing with them rather than only seeing our side of the issue; a Persuasive Paper, in which we had to present on a controversial topic, address both sides of the issue, and then explain why our side of the argument was stronger. Our year ended in a group-based Roundtable Debate, in which we dissected and then argued important issues as groups.
Over all this course has had quite an effect on me as a person and I find myself in a more empathetic and yet logical mindset than I was previous to starting this semester. The techniques I learned have placed me in a few interesting if not eye-opening situations that in turn taught me more about myself and the people around me. It also served as a wonderful refresher course on writing and presenting.