YOU ARE WRITING FOR a BLACK College Athlete. REFLECT ON HOW THE THEORY WOULD APPLY TO MY LIFE OF A BLACK COLLEGE ATHLETE

Personal Experience Reflection

YOU ARE WRITING FOR a BLACK College Athlete. REFLECT ON HOW THE THEORY WOULD APPLY TO MY LIFE OF A BLACK COLLEGE ATHLETE

YOU CAN USE THE “TRY BEING A BETTER LISTENER” THEORY (POWER POINT WILL BE BELOW) OR THE “BREAKING A RULE” THEORY (READING WILL BE BELOW)

This is a class about communication; this is a communication assignment. By far the most open-ended of all the Friday assignments, this is also possibly the most difficult. Go do communication and tell me about why it’s communication. In other words, go live your life in such a way that you are actively applying course concepts to your everyday life in a consequential fashion. Then, reflect on that experience. This reflection should not only be an application of the course concept (though it should be that). Through applying a concept to your own life, your life will then “talk back” to that concept or theory. In other words: you are “testing” the theory with your personal experience. Likely the theory will provide a starting point, but your experience will be messier somehow. Reflect on why that is and what it teaches you about the theory you chose.

HOW TO DO IT:

• Make sure you’re doing something. Apply communication theory to your life
• You can use any theory/concept from class so far (not limited to Week 4:
  • Try being a better listener
  • Try breaking a “rule” (see rule-breaking reading for tomorrow)
  • Try acting differently in a CMM-type conversation
• Recommend: read through the theory/concept you want to apply before you do it
• The write up:
  • Summarize what you did
  • Explain what that teaches you about the theory
  • “Extend” the theory

Some examples:

• You learn about social construction (theory/concept) and the ways your language creates/maintains/can destroy the social world around you. Use that theory in a way that creates, maintains, or destroys a social world you are participating in.
• You learn about the importance of communication in close relationships (week 3: ch. 10 has many concepts and theories to choose from) and you apply some of the concepts to a relationship that matters to you.
• You learn about organizational rules and rule-breaking and apply expectancy violations theory (concept/theory) to a rule that you find annoying.

After doing communication/applying the theory to real actions in your life, write a two-page (double-spaced) reflection on what you did and why you think that was a useful application of the theoretical concept you chose from class. Dig in and expand in order to explain why this action was important or consequential in some way. The best reflections (the ones that will earn A’s, see ‘oh dang’ factor) will include a brief discussion of how your experience informs the theory you chose, how the messiness of life teaches you about what the theory lacks or ignores.

Rubric

Subject: Communications

Assume you are a A BLACK COLLEGE ATHLETE and write. U need to write mostly in first person

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