Intercultural Communication examines culture as a variable in interpersonal and collective communication. It explores the opportunities and problems arising from similarities and differences in communication patterns, processes, and codes among various cultural groups. It explores cultural universals, social categorization, stereotyping and discrimination, with a focus on topics including race, ethnicity, social class, religion, gender and sexuality as they relate to communication.

Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Intercultural Communication
CHAPTER 2: Social Categorization, Stereotyping, and Discrimination
CHAPTER 3: Beliefs, Values, and Cultural Universals
CHAPTER 4: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
CHAPTER 5: The Impacts of Social Class
CHAPTER 6: Gender and Gender Inequality
CHAPTER 7: Socialization and Human Sexuality

Interpersonal Communication: A Mindful Approach to Relationships helps readers examine their own one-on-one communicative interactions using a mindfulness lens. The writing team of Jason S. Wrench, Narissra M. Punyanunt-Carter, and Katherine Thweatt incorporates the latest communication theory and research to help students navigate everyday interpersonal interactions. The 14 chapters in this book cover topics typically taught in an undergraduate interpersonal communication course: family interactions, interpersonal dynamics, language, listening, nonverbal communication, and romantic relationships, as well as exploring emerging areas such as self-compassion, body positivity, friendships, and “the dark side”. The writing takes on a purposefully informal tone to engage readers. Each chapter is broken into different sections that have unique instructional outcomes, key takeaways, and exercises, and concludes with real-world case studies and sample quiz questions. Also included is an extensive glossary with over 350 definitions.

This course introduces you to the conceptual issues and practical implications of interpersonal communication. The course is designed to provide a holistic and self-contained, although not comprehensive, introduction to the study and practice of communication within interpersonal encounters. In addition, this course focuses specifically on understanding and improving how we communicate in personal relationships including familial, friendship, work and romantic contexts. The guiding instructional philosophy of the course is that learning entails active engagement with and feedback about the targeted skill.

This is a D2L Brightspace module covering the foundations of communication . This is used as an introduction to an interpersonal communications course.

This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).

This book was accessed and downloaded on December 29, 2012 by Andy Schmitz in an effort to preserve the availability of this book.

Normally, the author and publisher would be credited. However, the original publisher has asked for the customary attribution to be removed. Additionally, per the publisher’s request, their name has been removed in some passages. More information about this situation is available on this this page.

The book was further edited by Victoria Leonard from the College of the Canyons and archived via the Universitas Negeri Makassar OER Portal.

It was then chosen by Tresha Dutton for students at Whatcom Community College and this Pressbooks edition was created by Librarian Rowena McKernan with technical modifications for the platform. If there is any copyright in these modifications than rights are waived under a CC0 license.

Book Contents are:
Chapter 1: Introduction to Communication Studies
1.1 Communication Forms
1.2 The Communication Process
1.3 Communication Principles

Chapter 2: Communication and Perception
2.1 Perception Process
2.2 Perceiving Others
2.3 Perceiving & Presenting Self
2.4 Improving Perception

Chapter 3: Verbal Communication
3.1 Functions of Language
3.2 Using Words Well

Chapter 4: Nonverbal Communication
4.1 Principles & Functions of Nonverbal Communication
4.2 Types of Nonverbal Communication
4.3 Nonverbal Communication Competence
4.4 Nonverbal Communication in Context

Chapter 5: Listening
5.1 Understanding How & Why We Listen
5.2 Barriers to Effective Listening
5.3 Improving Listening Competences

Chapter 6: Interpersonal Communication Processes
6.1 Principles of Interpersonal Communication
6.2 Conflict & Interpersonal Communication
6.3 Emotions & Interpersonal Communication
6.4 Self-Disclosure & Interpersonal Communication

Chapter 7: Communications in Relationships
7.1 Foundations of Relationships
7.2 Communication & Friends
7.3 Communications and Families
7.4 Romantic Relationships
7.5 Relationships at Work
7.6 The Dark Side of Relationships

Chapter 8: Culture & Communication
8.1 Culture & Romantic Relationships
Chapter 9: New Media & Communication
9.1 New Media, the Self, and Relationships

This is a review of the textbook, Introduction to Public Communication http://louis.oercommons.org/courses/introduction-to-public-communication/view completed by Danielle Vignes, Baton Rouge Community College.

This is a review of Intro to Communication (CMST 101) com https://louis.oercommons.org/courses/intro-to-communication-cmst-101 completed by Douglas Marshall, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Southern University at New Orleans 

This syllabus is for Intro to Human Communication by Douglas Marshall, Ph.D. at Southern University at New Orleans, which is the CCOM 1013 on the statewide common course matrix.

An introduction to the human communication concentration in the communications major. This course will introduce you to communication principles, common communication practices, and a selection of theories to better understand the communication transactions that you experience in your daily life.

This Open Education Resource (OER), developed by Olds College in collaboration with the Government of Alberta, is a series of modules intended for use in Higher Education courses or by independent learners. Titled ‘Professional Communication’ the resource will be useful for instructors whose courses cover introductory communication skills, workplace communication, technical communication or business writing. The resources is openly available under a Creative Commons license, and may be reused or adapted. It contains four modules, each with its own lesson plans, assets, assessments and supporting materials. Note: Please make a "Copy" of any files you wish to use, you will then have editing abilities.