Well, "largest group I have ever taught", I have to say, this was a nutty semester! I kept thinking people would drop so I kept adding and what the ????? Hardly anyone bailed! Good work people, you have done well and stuck with it! Thanks for sharing and growing along with me this semester--Good luck in your interpersonal relationships! For this blog, please share one relationship in your life that might benefit from what you learned this semester and one moment in class that impressed you, made you laugh or inspired you! Have a GREAT summer and behave yourselves for goodness sakes!!!
31 comments:
This will benefit me especially among my family relationship, this class has made me realize to be open minded and take their view into considerations, and their factors. What I will also take from this class is some terms such as loaded language and attacking. This will hopefully ease down my arguements especially in relationships. A special memory i share in this class is when Prof Wheeler blamed us for not telling her about her booger. I will also remember working with my groups that was most enjoyable. I just wish there was more activities that we could have done, look took personal quizes based on the chapters. :) loved this class.
-Tina Ho
The relationships chapter has benefited my relationship with my boyfriend. Now I can see the reasoning for why men and women aren't always on the same page and I've learned tools to help with communication. I've also found how helpful knowing the difference between I and You language is when talking to just about anyone. I have learned many useful tools and information to help me in communication.-Devin Kearns
I have learned a lot about how to help my boyfriend be more vocal about his feelings and things of that nature. I would always get upset before when he wasn't open with me, and it took me some time to learn that he just needs it in a different approach. I hope that the knowledge from this class will help us create many more happy years together. (Next month is our 3-year anniversary!)
From the various concept i learned this semester I have grown to be a more rhetorically aware individual. I am more cautious and aware of others sentiments and take full consideration of the situation instead of exploding on people like I use to. I always tended to communicate to my other special in negative way, when I had strong feelings about something. I used accusatory language that always agravated the situation. It was always i-you or i-it. Now he also has sensed a change in me and we fight alot less. We made it out of the most difficult part of our lives which was our geograpic distance, and now are a happy couple. I will most definetly add our interpersonal communications text book to our magazine rack and constantly flip through it to refresh the concepts. Thanks a mill Sandra.
saihra nagin
My relationship with my boyfriend has been a lot better ever since I've taken this class. I have learned to listen to him (a lot more) and always take things into different perspectives and consideration. I will now own my feelings and the way I say things. Even though we've known each other for over 10 years, learning how to deal with conflict was something new. Thanks for being such a great instructor. Your random comments always makes me laugh.
-Kim Lieng Kel
I learned a lot from Chapter one. I realize that we have many I-It, I-You, and I-Thou relationship. When I go shopping I try to form a I-You communication to acknowledge others more than an object. I try my best to form a conversation with the workers. For instance, when you acknowledge a cashier clerk at the supermarket, their day will be better. If you just purchase and pay, it feels like the person is an object. The funny and shocking moment I took from this class is when Sandra told us about her booger. That made me laugh. This class was fun and enjoyable. I hope to improve on my communication skills. Thank you, Sandra.
~Ling Vuong
This class definitely benefited my romantic relationship. This class taught me how to work towards successful communication. It also taught me how to actually listen (and also notice when my boyfriend isn't listening so I can call him out). :D I benefited from this class a lot though, and have been encouraging other friends to take it! Thank you very much! I loved this class.
-Maggie Cabrey
I would have to say I learned a lot in chapter one and just like ling was saying the i- thou it and you and terms like that. May times on daily bases we dont realize how we see a person and just go along with our day. I realized that selestive listening is something I do all the time. I selectively listen in class especially if its a supper early morning class or an evening class. I will listen for key word such as "know this" and "know that" and "this will be on the next exam". I focus on what I only need so i dont become stress to have to remember everything.I really enjoyed this class and really liked it when we had classes discussions and it felt really relaxing and interesting to hear others point of view get across. Sandra thanks for not been hard on us if we arrived a minute late to class and thanks for being down to earth through the entire semester. By the way it was nice meeting you beautiful daughter the other day:)..
-Olga
The conflict management section of our lessons has improved my relationships with my friends, family and my boyfriend. It taught me how to deal with conflict in the best way, and how to manage disagreements and conflict in an appropriate and productive way. All the moments in class where Sandra and my classmates were not afraid to get up in front of the class, be themselves and say whatever was on their minds really inspired me and made me laugh when appropriate. My classmates in this class are such great and fun characters.
Lamoel Ruiz
I think every relationship in my life will benefit from this class. I will always take everyone else's view into consideration and try not to impose my thhe thoughts on to others and not hear their point of view. It was nice being in this class the students have been a joy to work with and Sandra you are awesome. Catina
To be honest, before I took this class I thought to myself, "what is there to actually learn about myself?" Boy was I ever wrong! There is so much that I have learned. Each chapter had something new to learn! This class has taught me to become a better listener to my children, wife and friends. I enjoyed the friendly reminders from Professor S, "speak louder, I can't hear you" or coming directly to an individual to really listen.... Thanks Sandra, I've learned a lot.
Teng Xiong
HEY PROF! i can't seem to find the quiz and you haven't responded to any of my emails. Is there still a quiz?
-Tina Ho
The relationship chapter will definitely help me. Over the past my relationship with my family, friends and intimate had lots of down side. I was the type of person who had the loyalty responses. No matter how bad the conflict was, I would always remain in the relationship and tolerate the differences, but after taking this class,I learned how to manage conflicts by using the voice response and addressing the issue directly and attempting to resolve it to the point, where everyone gains, a win-win situation.
This class was so much fun, all the group activities we did. My favorite was making the poster for earth day and gazing at the stars in the cold, windy night. I would take this class again in a heartbeat. Best class EVER!!! :)
~Adleen Prasad~ <3
This call will really help my relationship with my girlfriend. Parts of class that dealt with how different genders communicate differently, and why they act the way that they do helped me to be more patient and understanding during communication. Now it's easier for me to maintain a dual perspective during conversations instead of being dumbfounded that she would think a certain way.
- Alex Carlson
The relationships chapter helped me in communicating with all my family members and friends. The communication between me and my dad has also gotten better. Less arguing has been in my house and the communication is more clear. As far as a memorable moment, i think the class in general will always be remembered. Everyone got along and the participation was never a problem. Thank you Sandra for such a fun and educational environment.
-Michael Arredondo
This class been fun, and one thing I think it will help me with is how to communicate with my friends, especially because they are mostly males. They say men are mars but this class as made me realize that maybe I should consider where they are coming from when they do/don't bring up certain topics.
I loved who open Ms. Wheeler was with us saying things like "I have a bone to pick with you guys" over the whole booger issue or sharing the story about falling down the escalators. Thank you! :)
~ Anmol Kaur
The Managing conflict chapter is a great lecture from the textbook because I have learned how important it is to manage a conflict effectively. I realized the guidelines for effective communication are excellent tools to apply on my daily life. In my opinion, Ms. Wheeler's personal anecdotes were the best part of the class because I always related them with the chapters, and most of them were fabulous. Also I am so impressive with the good job of most of the dyadic presentations. Thanks alot for your dynamic class Ms. Wheeler.
Armida G. Lee
The relationship with my brothers might benefit from this class because we all think very differently, and I've learned how to avoid confrontation with different approaches to conflict. My funniest part of the semester was when Prof said she had a booger that no one told her about. HILARIOUS. (:
I learned a lot about positive ways to communicate this semester. I have applied what I've learned to my romantic relationship which has helped me to communicate how I feel in a more positive way. I will always remember the pillow fight commercial we saw in class which was so funny to me.
Vickshna Anand
I learned a lot in this class. one of my farvorite classes in this semester. I lessons help me improve my relationships with friends, family, and even trangers ^^. I still need to apply the lessons I learned to my relationships more to be the one I want to be. Another benefit of this class is analyze the relationships around me. Thank everyone ^^
Hai Tran.
This really helped my romantic relationship and my relationship with my family and friends. knowing guys think diffrent from girls and that genders communicate diffrently so you have to be patient. and you understand the other individual more. this class has helped me communicate more in a positive way with my boyfriend. so now i can be in a conversation and not fight as much. As far as this class, this class was great! I liked how almost every student in this class is very open minded and doesn't mind sharing somthing about themselves.
-Amira Jamshaid
My relationship with my daughter will benefit more than any other. I will take what I have learned about friendships, conflicts and how to communicate what you are feeling to better our relationship. Especially whens he gets older.
Also, i think knowing the difference between You-Language and I-Language will make a difference in most of my relationships.
This semester was fun, thanx Sandra!
A relationship that will improve the most because of this class is my family relationship. After going through this class I think all that we learned will help me see things with a more open mind in arguments and also when we do have an argument I my be able to calm the situation down faster. The skills learned this semester will really help me through the rest of my life and this class has turned out to be very useful.
Kevin Rorke
i will benefit from this class because i will put a bigger importance on communicating properly to my family members. i will have more of a open mind. the most rememorable thing in the semester was doing the group project, it was interesting and fun to work on.
-neal vickers
I learned a lot from this whole semester. It taught me many ways to communicate more effectively with friends and family. I open up to others more instead of keeping everything in. I try to keep conflicts from getting out of hand. Overall, this class was really fun! Thanks for being an awesome teacher Sandra!
-Quang Nguyen
Thanks for everything professor!!!
My relationship with my best friend is going to benefit the most from this. I have realized some of the things that I do wrong or could do better to make my relationship stronger.
Some of the best times in this class is when we would act certain things out and jeff would be the one who always volunteered. He was a lot of fun and this class was a lot of fun
Michael Drummond
This class will always benefit me in my personal realtions through life, it was an even easier tranistion for me after taking a class with Sandra before. One thing will take from this class is to be a better listener, especially being a guy this sucks. The one moment I will have is Sandra during the Mid Terms walking around with a booger on her nose.
- Kris Sen
I learned a lot from the chapter 12 " communication families". It helps me understand more about the structure of the family, the true definition about marriage. Especially, we had the speech on this chapter. this benefit me to take my view about family more into considerations. In addition, my relationship btw me and my bf are getting much better. I don't get mad so easily like before, and always find the better way to communicate with him and find the best solution.
__Molly___
i think my everyday encounters will be forever effected and all i have to say is i will like everybody contact information to stay in contact i loved this class a whole lot thank you guys for a wounderful semester.
-Jeffrey Kelly-
This is one very useful class and specially it helps a lot in building I-thou relationship in any level since now we can monitor the communication much more efficiently.
The moment that impress me the most is when everytime Jeff jumped up and volunteer for teaching assistance, totally not a norm in the culture I came from but I like it and find it interesting all the time.
Have a wonderful summer, Sandra! I'm getting marring this summer. =)
~Ling Vuong
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