Unit Five: Competent Communication of Emotion and During Conflict

March 21 - April 3

Wednesday (3/23): Post your initial answer in your group discussion forum (see information on Units page for Successfully Using Discussion Forums) to the following:

Given the case study “Managing Anger and Providing Support” (pg 142), what will be your response? How will you handle the situation?

Write a sentence or two stating exactly what your next action/response would look like. Then, support your decision using information from your text. The format for your answer (and the group's final answer) should be:

Action: Sentence or two
Support: Paragraph or two that provides support, explanation, reasoning using what you have learned in the chapter

Wednesday - Wednesday (3/30): Discussion of case study in your groups. Final answers (in the above format) must be posted in your forum with the topic "FINAL ANSWER FOR YOURGROUPNAME".

Friday (3/25): Your fifth interpersonal analysis addition to your webpage is due this unit.  To help you better understand some of the concepts in the course and be able to apply them to improve your own interpersonal communication skills, you need to:

Choose two of the following:

1. Consider your own use of suppression and venting to manage your emotions. What leads you to choose one or the other strategy? Do you believe that there should be limits to how often you vent or how long you suppress? If so, why?

2. What emotions do you consider more appropriate to experience than others given your gender (consider pp. 125-126)? Do you experience these emotions more frequently than other emotions that seem more appropriate for the other gender? What gender-based display rules do you follow when communicating your emotions?

3 Recall a conflict in which you avoided conflict (pg. 296-297). Why did you choose avoidance? What negative consequences ensued from this decision? Were there any positive outcomes? If you could redo the encounter, what, if anything, would you say and do differently to obtain more positive results?

4. Take the “Self Quiz” (pg 296), what approaches to conflict do you use most often? Do you feel your approaches to conflict are effective? Why or why not?

Friday - Thursday (3/31): Comment on group member’s webpages in the Unit Five Webpage Comments forum. Answer the following questions for each of your group member’s webpages:

1. First check your group members’ webpages to be sure they have:

• Answered all parts of the assignment;
• Supported their answers with specifics;
• Written for the web: bullet points, headings, phrases – not sentences and/or paragraphs;
• Post helpful suggestions for anyone who you feel could probably improve his/her answer before I grade the webpage

2. Then, choose one person who you feel “taught” you something about this unit’s concepts – what did that person teach you with his/her website? Why does learning about that concept matter?

Friday (4/1): Final revisions are completed to your webpage.

Thursday - Sunday (4/3): Debate final answers for case study in Unit Four Debate Discussion Forum (see Units page for information on Debating Final Answers).