GOAL #2: Students will communicate effectively and responsibly through speaking and listening. (3 credits) SPCM 101 does not count toward any  major but nursing and Associate of Art.

Criteria: Courses satisfying this goal will require students to:

1. plan and create speeches for a variety of audiences and settings;

2. develop speaking competencies including choice and use of topic, supporting materials, organizational pattern, language, presentational aids, and delivery as appropriate to topic, audience, occasion, purpose, and communicator;

3. develop listening competencies including listening with literal and critical comprehension to ideas, perspectives, and emotions in messages.