One concept

One concept that we discussed on is what is self. The first post I wrote for this week, and the last paper I wrote, included about one's self. Throughout this course, I have learned that the way we are depends on how much we communicate with people. The book states that "The self arises in communication with others", which explains we develop a self in the process of communicating with others. I believe that this is very true, and didn't know this until I took this class. Also, this isn't all that it made me realize, the people you communicate with, eventually defines the kind of people you will become. Sometimes you hang out with people who has a certain type of idea about a particular thing, and when you communicate enough with them, their idea will become your idea. We all form ideas of our own, but sometimes it will overcome our own. It also defines the type of person you are, whether you're a good or bad person, generous, nice, mean, etc. Communication with others will define you as a person in general.

Favorite/ Least favorite

My favorite part of the class was the discussion part of the class because we get to express our opinions about what we think, what we learned and correlate how it relates to our lives and to the class, and also we get to write to other students about what we think about their posts. I like it when teachers use this type of teaching because it engages us as the students to interact with other students to get different opinions/ ideas from them. It is exactly what the book talks about with communicating with others, we get their ideas and opinions. The only thing I didn't like about the course was writing the papers. It seemed a little tedious for me. I think the topics wasn't as engaging to me, as the blog questions were in my opinion. I wished the topics were a little bit more different. Other than that, the class itself was a really good class. I really enjoyed this class and would recommend it to others.

What I have learned over the course

What I have learned over the course of this class is that communication is what helps us grow. Without communication, we won't know any better and we will have a tough time growing up. It is in our human nature to have needs of belonging and communication in order to make personal growth. The book had the example of the 2 girls who had minimal to no contact and communications who had minds of 6 months old. Writing the last paper made me realize that sometimes we take communication for granted because we don't realize how much it plays a role in our lives and how much it affects us if we never had communication. We learn a lot through communication with people. Sometimes we get different views that we would not have thought and that's only through communication. We use communication as source of knowledge to support our own personal growth. We use communication in multiple ways in order for us to become a fully developed human.