General Education Core Course Assignment Template

GENERAL EDUCATION CORE COURSE ASSIGNMENT TEMPLATE

NOTE: This is the assignment that all professors teaching a course for consideration in the General Education Course list for San Jacinto College will agree to teach, assign, assess, and document.

I. TITLE & NUMBER OF COURSE: Interpersonal Communication SPCH 1318

II. TITLE OF ASSIGNMENT: Team Assignment on Conflict Styles (This assignment is

designed to assess written communication and personal responsibility.)

III. GENERAL EDUCATION CORE OBJECTIVES TO BE ASSESSED:

A. Critical Thinking Skills: to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information.

B. Communication Skills: to include effective development, interpretation, and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication.

C. Teamwork: to include the ability to consider different points of view and to work effectively with others to support a shared purpose or goal.

D. Personal Responsibility: to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making.

IV. DESCRIPTION OF ASSIGNMENT:

A. Group component before journal entry:

- After the lecture on conflicts in relationships, divide the students into pairs or small groups. Each team is to write one scenario and four different responses using the conflict styles listed below. In face-to-face classes an oral component can be added where pairs perform their scenario and the audience identifies the conflict style. For distance learning classes the focus would be on the written communication objective.

- Use of common language for the assignment: Since each campus uses different textbooks use the following terms for the conflict styles:

Lose/Lose Avoiding / Withdrawing Lose/Win Accommodating Win/Lose Competing (Can include force) Win/Win Collaborating

Modified from assignments received from TJC & SJCD August 19, 2014 B. Journal Entry

Students will individually describe a situation in which they had a conflict with a close friend, family member, or romantic partner and they managed to work it out constructively. They must analyze what happened by discussing how their behavior and their partner’s followed or violated principles for effective conflict discussed in the text.

V. Assessments

A. Include the following:

 How the assignment will be graded, along with the rubric

 How much of the student’s grade will come from this assignment

Modified from assignments received from TJC & SJCD August 19, 2014