COMM230 W7 FINAL PROJECT

Description

You will identify small group communication strategies you have learned through the term in a set of group process scenarios. You can choose to work with the film Apollo 13 or a set of provided meeting videos. For your analysis, select three major content areas from the course to apply to the scenarios and explain the communication behavior of the group members. Examples would include cohesion, conflict management, group roles, decision-making techniques, listening, identity, and leading meetings.

Possible approach: Reflect on the course as a whole, reviewing the text chapters for key content areas. Then watch the movie or video scenarios. Pick three content areas that connect to various scenes to help explain the small group interaction. Then write the paper (3.5 – 5 pages).

Note: this is a highly integrative assignment (worth 10% of your grade), and an opportunity for you to demonstrate what you have learned throughout the term.

Possible organization:

• Introduce the paper and your choice (film or video scenarios)
• Overview the three content areas you will use
• Present each major scene and your analysis of the communication

Or

• Present each content area and provide communication examples from the scenes/scenarios
• Conclude the paper

Option 1: The film Apollo 13 is filled with small group scenarios. Due to the crisis situation, many group meetings are ad hoc and may seem informal. Consider the scenes of the three astronauts in the capsule when they are interacting as a group and also the scenes of the groups that form to problem-solve (for example: the return strategy, the oxygen problem, and the power in the capsule). Analyze multiple scenes from the film where the focus is small group communication.

Option 2: Watch the meeting clips below. All are small group formal meetings within an organizational setting. The context for the first clip is unique – separate from the other clips. The last four are all within the same organization. Analyze content from at least three of the five.