Final Entry#7 – Reflection on COM101

Hey all guys,

we are finally in our last bout before presentations! I bet everyone’s nervous and excited on how we are to wow our instructor!

since i’m a person who constantly waxes nostalgic (hey i love memories) let’s go through the chapters taught and my 2 cents on each.

History of Communication – When our instructor (hereby known as HKL) told us about Idols of the Tribe, I began to think about every (and i mean) EVERY instance i could. but I rarely could find it because though Francis Bacon had a clear mind of explaining it to us, i feel that it’s pretty much outdated and i realise that some issues like misunderstandings which is known as idols of the cave be known as simply .. misunderstandings. Theories imo are known as a guideline, but it is up to us to make it relevant

Perception – My favourite topic, due to its biggest relevance to my everyday life. Since then, my group and i constantly check each others Non Verbal Communications out on a daily basis. No wonder i scored quite well for this quiz! That being said however, I realised that  the use of NVC can be applied onto print ads as well as on screen instead of just in real life. since then, i’ve missed the plots of many movies thanks to my game of find-the-NVC in every movie. (do you realise that UP! the movie has the highest count of proxemics amongst all the NVC shown?)

Interpersonal relationships – My sentimental topic. when HKL went through the Knapp model of relational development, i kinda ran through my previous relationship as well as my dates and where it went wrong. I realised that I tend to went into the Stagnating shape whenever i wanted to terminate it. so in a sense, the circumscribing was pretty much lapsed whenever i wanted to end my dates. That being said, I began to explore the idea of an interpersonal relationship between a movie maker and its audience. and how the conception of say a movie is made, by the moviemaker sussing out the audience (INITIATING stage) by having focus groups, research etc..

Culture – the template for living! I enjoyed this topic as it sparked lots of debates among the class for Asia being high context, but a few individuals or rather, a whole new wave of generation 1987 and above having more low context culture behaviour thanks to the influence of western media.

that’s about most of my favourite topics covered so far! do tell me about my views on the chapters. I’d love to hear what were your enjoyable chapters too!

I’d like to thank our instructor HKL for giving us an enjoyable module, even though it started out being very intense and awkward (“NO GRACE PERIODS”), certainly a testament to Knapps Initiating stage, but the class slowly warmed up to her and we’re slowly getting the hang of speaking our in discussions when she throws questions to the floor.

I myself have learnt that communication has many layers and many interpretations and it is crucial that we make no grey matter whenever we are trying to express our opinions and thoughts lest the occurence of miscommunication happens.

I can’t wait for the presentations, Let’s all have fun… oooooooookay? (hint)

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