This course is designed to familiarize you with issues related 
to nonverbal communication. You will be given opportunities to
grapple with those issues cognitively and behaviorally. When you
finish the course you should have a better understanding of the
types of nonverbal behaviors that communicate meanings and the
functions those behaviors perform. You should be able to more
closely monitor your own nonverbal behaviors and those of 
others.

1. Defining Communication/Nonverbal Communication
2. Relationships Between Verbal and Nonverbal Cues
3. Haptics
4. Proxemics: Personal Space
5. Proxemics: Territoriality
6. Artifacts
7. Physical Appearance Cues
8. Kinesics
9. Vocalic Cues
10. Olfactory Cues
11. Chronemic Cues: Biological Time Orientations
12. Chronemic Cues: Cultural and Psychological Time Orientations
13. Structuring and Managing Conversations
14. Displays of Gender, Race, and Culture
15. Forming and Managing Impressions
16. Communicating Emotions
17. Communicating Relational Messages
18. Influencing Others
19. Detecting Deceptive Communication

“Academic honesty is – defined broadly and simply – the 
performance of all academic work without cheating, lying, 
stealing, or receiving assistance from any other person or 
using any source of information not appropriately authorized or 
attributed” (From the Preamble to “A Culture of Honesty”). The 
University, the Department of Communication Studies, and I 
personally take academic honesty very seriously. Every student 
at the University of Georgia should be familiar with the 
booklet, “A Culture of Honesty: Policies and Procedures on 
Academic Dishonesty.” If you are not, please obtain one of 
these booklets and read it carefully. This document has a 
thorough presentation of four types of academic dishonesty, 
including plagiarism, unauthorized assistance, lying/tampering, 
and theft, as well as the procedures that are in place to 
adjudicate alleged incidents of academic dishonesty. The 
policies and procedures described in “A Culture of Honesty” 
will be strictly followed. University Mandated Statement 
Concerning the University Honor Code & Academic Honesty All 
academic work must meet the standards contained in “A Culture 
of Honesty.” Students are responsible for informing themselves 
about those standards before performing any academic work. More 
detailed information about academic honesty can be found at
http://www.uga.edu/ovpi/honesty/acadhon.htm.