COMS408

Communication Ethics

30 points

Not offered 2026, offered in 2024, 2025

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences

Description

This course provides students with some ethical tools to reflect on professional communication practice and their own goals and values. The course covers professional ethics frameworks, theories of dialogue and engagement with others, the use of postcolonial ethics to reflect on partnership between te ao Maori and te ao Pakeha and development of personal values. The course has a flipped classroom model, where students reflect on cases, before discussion in class.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Restrictions

COMS422, PHIL469