The COMM Lab
The Communication Lab is located on the 3rd Floor of Centennial Hall. The Lab, which consists of a large audio-video equipped meeting room and a smaller A/V area, is available to students from a variety of Communication Studies courses. The lab personnel includes one full-time faculty member and four graduate students who work one-on-one with students in various communication settings, from public speaking situations, to dyadic conversations, to group problem solving exercises.
The goal of the Communication Lab is to enhance the oral communication competence of students at Texas State through application of theory and course instruction to individual skill development. The Lab is designed to give students an opportunity to practice the information presented in their classes through recorded experiential activities. Students then view themselves and engage in self-critique along with a staff member, who provides assessment and constructive criticism of student skills. In addition to the various “settings,” the lab’s staff works with individual students having communication reticence and communication apprehension. Special individual consideration is given to students who want help with communication apprehension or "stage fright."
Some of the lab activities include: public speaking: rehearsal and critique of filmed speeches before class delivery; viewing of in-class filmed speech with critique after delivery; discussion and exercises to minimize communication apprehension, interpersonal communication and small group communication: skill exercises in listening and listening responses, feedback, paraphrasing, expressing feelings and using descriptive language, criticism, conflict and negotiation, power, assertion/aggression, nonverbal behavior, self-disclosure, ethical communication and language, awareness of and sensitivity to all forms of diversity.
The goal of the Communication Lab is to enhance the oral communication competence of students at Texas State through application of theory and course instruction to individual skill development. The Lab is designed to give students an opportunity to practice the information presented in their classes through recorded experiential activities. Students then view themselves and engage in self-critique along with a staff member, who provides assessment and constructive criticism of student skills. In addition to the various “settings,” the lab’s staff works with individual students having communication reticence and communication apprehension. Special individual consideration is given to students who want help with communication apprehension or "stage fright."
Some of the lab activities include: public speaking: rehearsal and critique of filmed speeches before class delivery; viewing of in-class filmed speech with critique after delivery; discussion and exercises to minimize communication apprehension, interpersonal communication and small group communication: skill exercises in listening and listening responses, feedback, paraphrasing, expressing feelings and using descriptive language, criticism, conflict and negotiation, power, assertion/aggression, nonverbal behavior, self-disclosure, ethical communication and language, awareness of and sensitivity to all forms of diversity.