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Old 07-29-2011 at 03:46 PM   #1
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Communication Studies
I'm going into first year Nursing and my elective is communication studies. I'm wondering about the load: more writing or reading? What type of assignments or evaluations are there? Did you find it easy?

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Old 07-29-2011 at 03:48 PM   #2
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Hey, what semester are you taking communication studies? I have that as well
Old 07-29-2011 at 04:12 PM   #3
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Definitely should be more reading than writing, I'll explain the should in a sec.

As for assignments, it was a pretty slack course in my opinion. We had 2 journals to write (1 page reflections on given articles, informal), an opinion piece on something radio-related that was 800 words, and an 8 page double spaced essay. We did also have a group presentation for tutorials, but it was pretty much a case where you regurgitate what the prof talked about in lectures that week onto a PowerPoint, and provide examples/make activities out of it. The exam was 100 MC questions, but they were really easy ones; you had to know facts and stuff, but it was more general ideas than actual dates/times/names. Oh, and there's NO MIDTERM!

There were weekly assigned textbook readings to compliment the lectures, as well as a bunch of additional articles to read too (testable material). However, I went through the whole term without having the book of articles and read one chapter of the textbook; I just lucked out in that when exams rolled around, people starting sending mass e-mails out to create study groups. So I picked a group, and chose the section of the book I already read for my presentation, made study notes for it, and we all exchanged our chapters.

So yeah, there should be a lot of reading, but most of it is also self-explanatory enough that you won't need to read for details, just content. It's a really good elective with a really light workload, and it's pretty interesting too.

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Old 07-29-2011 at 05:35 PM   #4
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It all depends who is teaching the course. Regardless, it is a great class and fairly light but the structure depends on who is teaching it--Dr. Sevigny or Dr. Flynn. What Zimonada said is fairly accurate for Dr. Hirji (and maybe Savage). Sevigny does blog posts, couple of assignments and a written exam I'm fairly certain.

Anywho, its a great course and fairly light, but the structure does change significantly depending on who the Prof is.
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Old 07-29-2011 at 08:47 PM   #5
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It's first semester for me!
Thanks to all who posted

Oh and I think it's Sevigny...will that mean it's going to be hard and a heavy load?

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Old 07-29-2011 at 08:54 PM   #6
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Aww, mine's term 2 :( I wanted Sevigny, but I think another class conflicted with it in that semester.
Old 07-29-2011 at 09:01 PM   #7
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Sevigny's a great prof. A little daunting, but you will get a lot out of the class. This is a first year class so as long as you put the effort in you will be fine!

Dr. Flynn just recently moved to the Department of Communications and Multimedia from Degroote--his background is in Public Relations. Both Flynn and Sevigny work together very closely (they run Degroote's Master of Communications Management program) so 1A03 will likely be structured similarly.
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Old 07-29-2011 at 09:45 PM   #8
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oh i was gonna take that, but then i dropped it .. what other electives do yu have ? (:



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