I truly enjoyed the content of this class this semester. Before I took it, I always viewed conflict as being something completely negative and something that always just ends in an argument until people are able to pull it together and come to some sort of conclusion about why they're upset and how they can resolve the issue they are dealing with. I appreciated that the book was really easy to read and had a lot of great information that was relevant and I could apply to my life. I also liked that we did the blog. Because I prefer live interaction and we did not have a time when we actually met as a class, I appreciated that we still had interaction and were able to collect ideas from others in the class.
I am not a fan of online classes, so any issues I had with the class directly relate to that. I didn't like that I wasn't able to get a write out for the blog entires so I knew what was wrong with them and could get a better grade. I also like having an actual relationship with my teacher, which, in my opinion, is sort of hard to do when the class is online.
I would 100% recommend this class to others. I think it has a great amount of life skills (like all COMM classes do) and would be very beneficial. I think if people were able to get a better idea of how to deal with conflict, they would not have such a negative view of it. I think even if you're not a communication studies major,it's great to know because you will ALWAYS have to deal with conflict, no matter who you are, where you work, or what you do.
I agree with you that part of taking a class is building a relationship with your professor as well as your other classmates. As in my case I have to take classes online in order to work with my work schedule. If I had the choice I would like to take my classes in person, yet I believe I learn the same amount when I take my classes online. Between the blogs and the conflict resolution workshop we were able to learn many valuable tools which would have been taught in a classroom setting. This class would be ideal for anyone who may not have the time to attend class regularly. The hardest part of school is actually showing up to class, which is obviously not an issue in this online setting.
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