About the Course

The class will focus on the practical and basic communicative skills needed to understand how relationships progress from choice to beginning to deepening and to ending. Using Emory as an example of a location in which to form organizationally-facilitated relationships, the seminar will take special notice of endings as a pivotal learning point. The crucial management skills necessary to successfully make transitions from one phase of a relationship to another for oneself and for others will be presented with an emphasis on the special role that nonverbal communication plays in that process.