Communication Studies
8 courses · Cuesta College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Summer 2026 · Fall 2026
COMM 193 COMMUNICATION STUDIES SPECIAL TOPIC
- Units
- 0.5 to 4
- Hours
- 1.5 to 12 hours per week: (0.00 - 0.00 lecture hours/1.50 - 12.00 lab hours)
Examines a special topic in the field of study related to the discipline offering this course.
COMM 210 SMALL GROUP SPEAKING AND COMMUNICATING
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 140
Focuses on effective small group presenting and communication. Explores the foundational knowledge and practice of public speaking for successfully communicating informative and persuasive messages within the small group context. Introduces students to the theories, techniques, and methods of small group communication. Develops speaking, participation, and leadership skills of effective communicators within the small group setting. Provides applied practice through faculty supervised and evaluated oral group presentations delivered to a live audience, through group activities, and through project group work. Involves weekly outside of class team meetings.
COMM 212 INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- Eligibility for ENGL 201A
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 150
Focuses on the importance of culture and its effect on communication. Examines interactive patterns of communication across various cultural contexts (international, ethnic, gender, and class) and assess different methods and techniques of adapting communication to enhance and overcome the difficulties of intercultural communication. Analyzes how cultures adapt, borrow, communicate verbally and non-verbally, and are represented in a diverse world.
COMM 215 ARGUMENTATION AND DEBATE
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 120
Focuses on critical thinking skills necessary for effective argumentative writing and oral advocacy and debate. Advances knowledge and skills necessary for building, defending, evaluating, and refuting arguments through written composition and verbal speaking and debating for various audiences and within various rhetorical and social contexts. Includes evaluation and use of evidence, sound reasoning, and credible sources. Involves extensive writing and verbal public communicating. A minimum of 5000 words of writing is required in written student work from a combination of formal and informal writing such as debate case creation and rebuttal, essays, advocacy speech writing, self and peer evaluation, etc. Students will communicate many of their written arguments through well-prepared faculty-supervised and evaluated speeches and debates to a live audience.
COMM 230 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 130
Applies theory and research to communication in interpersonal relationships in personal and professional contexts. It examines effective and appropriate uses of verbal and non-verbal messages in the initiation, development, maintenance, and termination of interpersonal relationships.
COMM 247 INDEPENDENT STUDIES: SPEECH
- Units
- 0.5 to 2
- Hours
- 1.5 to 6 hours per week: (0.00 - 0.00 lecture hours/1.50 - 6.00 lab hours)
- Prerequisite
- The student must have completed preparatory course work in the field in which the study is to be undertaken.
- Transfers to
- CSU
Provides an opportunity for an in-depth study or a practicum experience by an individual student in a selected topic of speech under the direction of an instructor.
COMM 280 FUNDAMENTALS OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 180
Introduces students to the history and symbolic process of human communication through the study of basic communication models, theory, and relevant research findings. Emphasis will be placed on achieving an understanding of the communication process, and the process through which researchers in the field of Communication Studies add to their existing body of knowledge.
COMM C1000 INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC SPEAKING
- Units
- 3
- Hours
- 3 hours per week: (3.00 lecture hours/0.00 lab hours)
- Advisory
- ENGL C1000
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- COMM 110
In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches.