The Last Post

Its crazy how fast this winter semester went. I enjoyed the time we all spent together, though it may have only been one day a week, we all came together to learn one thing..how to communicate better. If it were a course that we were all "forced" to take or not we all benefitted.
This course will not only help how my career, but how I can overcome fear in the feature. By allowing myself to even say good morning to everyone in the elevator it can really go a long way because I feel that I will be able to go up to others and present my work to them. I think the public speaking chapter will definitely help me out in my public speaking class next semester!

Communications is learned, there is no doubt about that. I have found not only that it is a great skill but a difficult one to master.
I have a profound respect for those that have even accomplished standing up to hundreds of people even if they are only trying to sell me a bunch of pots.

As a communications/speech pathology major I know that I will be practicing everyday to better myself, I will even keep the textbook to have a more theory side of it a well.

Last Day of Class

Time goes quickly. This class for seven weeks is done. Even though it is only one day a week, I really enjoy it because it is a vivid and wonderful class. I have learned a lot which enrich my mind and my lives.

Firstly, fear always stops me to do well. I have learned how to face it to get releases. Secondly, I also learned how to think more positive, so more positive things will come back to me. We cannot change our past, but we can change our future by thinking positive. We should not be influenced by the negative past if we prefer to live happier. Additionally, we also cannot change a person, but we can change their behaviors and thinking. Although persuading people to change their thinking and no good behaviors is a tough task, if we are developed a topic with a good organization and subject, audiences will turn on to listen and are influenced.

I strongly believe that communication is learned. By learning healthy communication skills, I understand how to respect diversity, such as different culture, backgrounds, languages, religions and viewpoint.  I will try to please, apologize, do not disagree and put myself down; I will use effective responses to reflect others who they really are.

This class meets my expectation. Not only my communication skills are improved and also the knowledge of communication skills is gained a lot which exceed what I thought before. I will keep practicing and learning to improve my communication even more.

6 great weeks!!!

and the semester is finally over, its crazy how much you can learn in such a short period of time.I have always known that communication is a big part of everyones life, but taking this course has made me realize how much we affect our on life by the way we communicte with ourselves and others, this course has made me change a lot, it has tought me a lot about myself, when I first came itno the class I knew that it will be a good course to take, professor Trapani made it even better, having a teacher that relates so much to his students, and that is always challenging us to be better everytime, made this experience great. My view in communication has changed a lot, it has thought me how to be a better person by communicating in a different way, by changing my "baseline", this course made me digg into myself very deeeply and start knowing where is that everything started, it showed me that for me to be happy, I have to accept myself and change the things that don't make me happy and move on.After this class I have learned that communication is learned in a higher stage, i have learned that my whole life I have been just talking to people, but never actually communicating, my skills are changing and I see them already, I will take this experience and this class into my everyday life, so that i can become a better person and have a better communication with my family, friends, relationships, coworkers and classmates, this will show them that i have improve my life and how much better of a person I will be.
Thank you to everyone in this class, I will definitely keep everyone in my heart, and Im sure that we will cross paths again and we will talk about this class and how much it has affected our lifes.

From this moment on~!

"one chapter is finished, another book has been waiting for you to read".

I can't believe this is how we end for this class. still refreshing me up like it just seems like yesterday I was late and sat in the middle of room with eyes staring each other in the first day of the class.

I learned a lot thing in this class, from head to toe, it all absorbed into my stomach and changing my life into a different level, I changed some of my bad habits and behaviors: like lateness and lack of communication. I know this really gonna kill me. I will do whatever it takes to improve my poor communication skills. I know that the opportunity is created by ourselves not others, I didn't know that the communication is a part of culture, and it also an art of presentation. I strongly believe that communication is learned by many different ways of speaking.

now I'm going to prepared for next semester to face THE F___ = FEAR inside of me. I know now it's very important to know how to communicate in our society. I will be more open and communicate with people and making friends. otherwise, I will be wasted my time for taking this class for nothing if I don't digest the food in my stomach. I'll be shamed that Professor Trapani shared all his knowledge with us in class if I don't change anything. This class has met my expectation, it really effects me the ways of thinking. from a bad listener to a better listener, it is also respect to others and I convinced myself for not been sleeping when I was really tired sometimes in the class also the class was so interested in me and make me forgot how tired I was. now I will be improved myself by showing what I have learned from this class, to show some work done to thank you Professor Trapani~!!! :)

I really enjoy this class and I know I can do better than "this".

Our final goodbye's.........

During the whole six week session it went really fast. At first when i signed up for the class i was like o my gosh can i really take this class, because i have to get up in front of the classroom in speak to everyone, and the class was all day so i would have to talk all day. But, when i got into the class it wasnt that bad at all. Our first day of class our professor talked about fear. He talked about fear i felt alittle it better. I felt that he read my mind because that what i had before i enter the classroom. Another thing that the professor had us do was to get up in walk around to introduce ourself to our classmates. This is what gave a crack in the ice from my fear of speaking in front of people i didnt even know.

I have learned so much from being in this class but i am going to name a few thing that really touch me the most about this class and they are number one the five step's of listening and they are Attention, interpretation, evalvation, responding, and message storage. When people talk and you listen to them you wil get a better understanding of what they are saying to you. Another lesson i have learned is ethos, patho's, and logos. These three term's came from Aristole, and his persuassion ethos is ethical, pathos is emotional, logos is logical. This is good to know the meaning of this is because when we go to speeches or hear them we will know what kind of speech's these speechers are trying to persuassion. We recently learned about Toulmin model claim, data, and warrant. Self Discloser is something that other people wouldnt know about you. It something that you you have to tell people they would be able to see it if you didnt not state it about yourself.

I learned that communication is a form of art the reason why i know this is because i was taught it in class. At first when the professor told us that i was like how. But he should us that it is many ways that you can communicate wit each other. I feel that this class is a wonderful class it doesnt need to change at all. I like the class alot because it taught me how to communicate with people i dont even know much better than i did before by using what i have learned from the class. Thank you alot profferssor for what you have taught me.

Last day

Well, at first I was takin this class because it's required for my major, I wasn't into it vecause I thought it would be all talking and that's it. However, after a few weeks I changed my opinion because I learned that communication is not only speaking, but listening; in addition, there are other types of communication such as non verbal. I learned that communication is an art because because every individual communicates in an unique way. This class made me realized that sometimes you have to say im sorry even if you think you don't have to say it. For instance, I hae a friend that tents to get upset very quickly so we have had situation where we don't talk to each other for days even for weeks. But now when she wants to argue about something I talk to her like very calm because before I always argued with her or ignored her because sometimes she exagerated the issue.now I say i'm sorry if I have to because I'm not always right. I think acting in a defency or argumentative way does not get anywhere.

Communication can be learned throughout the person's expience but also it can be learn in school. Communication is more thatn being understood, it is how you are being understood. Sometimes the way we express something is not always what we meant to say. For example, if a guy sees his ex girlfriend in a bar and sent her a drink because he wanted to go to her, if she takes the drink he might think that she wants to talk to him too, but it might be that she really like the drink and she doesnt want to reject it. Also, might be that she thought he just wanted to be seen. Who knows what else could be. The point is that an action or a word can be interpretered in many ways so becareful.

And yes! This class met my expectations I learn so many things that I can apply to my life to make it better. I think this class was very completed due to the fact that we did many group activities and when the teacher explained a chapter he gave us example which we could relate to. The only thing was that sometimes the teacher was talking about a topic and then he jumped to another one which made him forgot what he was talking before but it was a pleasure for me to be part of this class.

P.s. Our world is created by words.

the last class

Sis weeks passed quickly. To summarize what I have learned in this short period,  I feel like I got more idea of what communication indicate. I also learned that communication is a form of art, and it can be learned by instruction and practice. Before taking this course, I thought that communication is a profound subject. And how well the communication skill a person has depends on his/her character. Now, my view has changed by knowing some of key element about communication. For example, there are several perspectives we can simply apply in our life. One of them is listening because a good communication starts with listening carefully.  

            It is hard to change a person’s attitude or value, but we can improve the way we communicate by learning and experiencing. For example, doing our project is a challenge and testing. Most of us were busy in working and studying at the end of semester, and each of us has our own idea about how to do it. However, after our effort, we arranged our schedule and finish our team work. Anyway, the class meets my expectation because it taught me much information and also, comparing with other class, it offers many ways for us to get to know each other.

Last class

I can say everyone can agree with me when I say this was a great course! Especially thanks to our professor, I took this course last semester and I withdrew because it was so boring and I took it in the 6 weeks to get it over with faster. Even though we only met once a week for 7 hrs, it was totally worth it! This course made a major influence in my life because everything I learned I applied and will always apply to my life moving forward. Now that I'm aware of my inner "FEAR" I try to face it, when I'm placed in an uncomfortable situation which has to deal with communicating with others I try to just do it and get it over with and it's such a big relief afterwards and I also tend to feel more confident. Also when I'm doing certain things I always think back to "you" and "self" and ask myself is this something I want to do or am I doing this to satisfy someone else?
I truly believe communication is learned because I learned how to be a more effective communicator which I wasn't at all before this course. Before I took this course I thought communication was just about talking and body language but I learned that it has to deal with who YOU are inside and how it has such a big influence on us that it prevents us from being great communicators. If there has to be any improvement I'll say more real life examples because that's what made the course so much more interesting because professor Trapani knew how to target our emotions and how to keep us entertained! I hope to have the privilege to be one of his students again!

The End Conclusion

Today was the last day of HUC101 course. I recalled the first day of class I have fear, and I am weak in speaking. I thought taking this course could help me maximize my speaking ability. To think, when I talk to someone or say something, I don't feel like to watch each other, but now I learned that way means that respect to each other. I remembered the first thing i learned is that The Aristotle' s appeal, ethos, pathos and logos, it impact to my literature and help me in speech, writing academic paper or even working on presentation. Although this six weeks course, but it's really helpful for students who are lack of speaking skills. It's a form of art, and it's important in relationship as well. I knew now the course is finish but I think that the things I learned in the course can actually be used in our world, we communicate to friends....family.... When we work, we use different behavior to communicate to co-worker....and that being more disclosure will definitely develop more relationship, so far I learned enough thing that I expected before the class.
In addition, I really like the ways prof Santo teaching, because if students don't like the ways of teaching, they will just turn off their listening, which is what we learned in the course about hear and listen. If students turn off their listen they wont learn anything. But all of us turn on "listen" and staying in the class from 9 to 3,4, learned knowledge that conduct to our life. I strongly believe all of us like Professor Santo including me. Hopefully in future I could be your student again!! Thank you Professor Santo Trapani !!!!!!

Final Class

Today is final day for our speech course. Even though it is not a long term session, we have a very happy time. We have a funny and nice professor. Before I take this course, I was hesitating because it was not an easy class for a second language student like me to take. I really wanted to improve my communication, but I didn’t have much courage. After taking this course, I changed my view of communication. It’s not what I thought that it was a scary and difficult thing. What I need to do is put my confidence on my communication. My communication skills improved. I strongly agree that communication is an art. After our group project, I learned more about three ways to persuade the audience when you presentation: ethos (ethical appeals), pathos(emotional appeals), logos(logical appeals). I study how to have a successful presentation. I also learned a lot of things, and these things are useful in my future life. I remembered that the professor taught us what self discourse and fear are, it gave me a chance to learn more about myself. The baseline is interesting for me. When the professor taught it, I recalled my friends’ behavior or talking which is useful. Also, I learned how to communicate with other people. I realized that people use different ways to talk with different people. On the other hand, I know how to plan my future life in a better way.
After taking this course, I will try to change some habits on communication. I will try to speak slowly, and I will use some body language and eye contact when I talk with other people. To be a good listener also is an important thing which respects others.
At the end, I want to say that this class is really helpful. The professor taught us a lot, and he always gave many different examples to help us to understand in an easy way. It helps me to remember. I enjoy taking this class!

last class!!!

I didn't know that this class can be that interesting all six weeks we been together. Thanks to prof. Trapani by sharing all his knowledge with us. I learned a lot in this class, I can say I changed my behavior toward me and others, and hopefully I will see more good changes in the future. This course had a huge influence on the way I think. Now I can say I'm more open, I communicate more and I think I become a good listener. Since we had this discussion in the class that we don't listen that much, I convince myself and I start listen more, because I think there is a purpose that somebody is talking and I have to use it as a benefit. I feel I can talk forever about this course, Professor was making so many good points in the class, and we were discussing them because they were related to us and to our society. I think this course was so interesting, because any topic that we were discussing was related to our need, every topic was all about us that's what it made it so interesting.

Last Day

In this class I learned a lot if I started to list topics I will never ended. What I think it was the most important that I got out of this class was that I learned how to communicated with other in a more effected way. Based on what I learned in this class I think that now I am to make a speech much better. Now I have more experience and knowledge of what is a good or bad speech and how to create an excellent one. I also learned the importance of learned and how language could lead to benefit you or hurt you. I also learned the language is very important in your daliy life because we used it all day long in place like work, school, home and with famliy and friends. The view that I has of communication hasn't change. The reason why is because I have all thought that communication is very important. We must communicated with our classmates, professor, friends, boss and famliy in order to know their needs and what is going on in their lifes.

Before taking this course I thought that communication wasn't learned that it was part of our nuture, but with this course I learnes it's learned and it's an art. The way to learn it is thought taking a course. This course has helped me to think back and picture something before doing it. For example now I have plans for my life, I used to plan what i wanted to do. Now I just do things with out looking or doing what I plan, I just act for the furture. I think this course is great how it is. The reason why I think that the class is excellent is because we do a lot in this class. We work in our own and also learned and gain the experience of working with others. This course over met my expectations because I learned a lot of new topics and discover that communication is more important that of what I thought it was. Also that communication is an art and it's learned.

Best course ever!!!!

I don't even know where to start this class was excellent. Prof Trapani was very practical which helped me stay intrested and on task. I would never expect this course to be so interesting. Language has powerfull effects on the ways that we think and experience the world. It made me realize how important listening and self- disclouser is. Disclousure can strengthen relationships by signaling trust and commitment. To be a succesful communicator, we must be willing to follow cultural rules and norms. I never knew that people who make eye contact are judge as friendlier and more natural and sincere. Knowing how to communicate clearly and effectively will benefit us no matter what career we choose, it will enhance our job performance. I truly believe that communication is learned. People who frequently move between cultures are often more sensitive to the fact that culture is shared. "When you thinking positively it's hard to feel fear when your body is relaxed, it's impossible to feel tense". I Will apply evrything i learned about communication in my evryday life. Thanks to Prof Trapani.!!!!!! " Our world is created by words". !!!

final day

In the course, I learned a lot. I remembered one part, “your self.” Within you, there are two, you and the self. “You” is created by our society, culture, and environment and so on. “The self” is pure and nothing. After learning the “your self,” I really though about what I am, am I closer to “you” or “yourself.” Before I took the course, just as professor said, I thought communication just talk to each other. After taking the course, I believed that “communication is learned.” Like body language can affect our communication. Also when we are communicate to interpersonal or organization, they are totally different.

After I took this course, I thought my communication skills have be improve. Before I took this course, I always quite and don’t want to talk to other people who speaks English. Because we have group project, I have to talk and discuss with my group members. Even though, sometime I speaked not clearly, they will ask me back questions that make the question clear. The course did meet my need, from the course, I learned some actual skills, and then I have chance to practice. I really enjoy this class and group.

last day

Today was the last day of communications class. I learned alot of new things in this class that I can apply to in the real world. Such as how to effectively communicate at a job interview or how to communicate to another person effectively. I definitely learned about team work in the class and how to learn how to work in a team enviornment. I also learned about the many different forms of languages in communications.
I think this class did meet my expectations. Because I learned alot and I felt like I just did'nt go to any ordinary class and go in and out without any knowledge of the subject at hand. I can now apply what I learned in this class to the real world at work and other opportunities. In my opinion this is probably the only course that I will use most of what I learned in the class room to the world outside. I had Great semester and alot of fun in the class.

The last day

Today is the last day for this course. Everyone is very excited. After this class, I learn more about communication. Like the 3ways to persuade the audience when you presentation: ethos( ethical appeals), pathos(emotional appeals), logos(logical appeals). And the most important one is how to prepare a presentation. It is very helpful for me in the future. Before I take this class, I think communication is just talk with each other, share the information to the others. But in fact communication refer to different areas. Communication is not just talk. It is about interaction, non-verbal communication, relationship, multi-cultural, listenting, etc.
I believe that "communication is learned". Although after we borned, we start to community with people. It is just basic step. We should learn more about communication, like how to community with interpersonal, organization, the history about communication, etc, when we study in college. Also this class is very helpful for me in real world. I know how to become a good listener. It is not just hear when we listening. It should receiving, constructing meaning and then responding to spoken.
I think this class is very funny and helpful. It is meet my expectations. Professor not only talk about the knowledge about the textbook, he also related to the real world, so that we can easily understand and remember. He also tells us that "our world is created through words", it is very meaningful. I really enjoy this course. Good luck for all my classmates!!!

the last day of class

       I really learn in this class that i can remeber was all the essay things such as thesis, introduction, i can apply in communcation. when i talk to someone i usually talk which means dont develop what i try to explain. i like tojump from one topic to another. that was the reason why people does understand me alot. right now i learn from the class was how to put my idear into a way that people can really understand me. and before, when i look at the word communcation i never related this word to being suit, before i think that if we dont know how to talk than there is not a problem, we can talk the things that we think is right but may not for the other people; we can ignore the diversity ; i was really hate history, i just trying to ignore everything really to history which include diversity. right now , i know that diversity is the most important thing in everywhere, if i try to ignore it . it going to have a huge impact later.that was the view of communcation i change after this class.    
     Before, i know that some people are learing how to talk, and they were really good at talking. i really like these kind of people who knows how to talk.i was wanting to have the same ability to talk like them; however, i dont know the way of learn it. after this class, i know a little be about how we should talk in some publc, working place, and a little indivdual. however i think it is really not enought. therefore , i think communcation is learned. in this class, i think it was a great class, if there was a rate , i will vote for 200+ however, i was not feel enought, i think professor should talk more about how to talk in everyday life. because i think that not everyone could have a chance to speak at public, and also the work place most of people just try to be quiet. the huge problem which happen everyday was friends and family talk which is really not enough i think the whole semester should talk about this 2 topic, of couse professor talk alot about this two  however i dont feel enought. if the school let me talk again i will talk in long semseter, cause i think this class is important than another other major couses.

Last Day

In this class I feel like I learned so much. Prior to this class I didn't think much of the way I communicated, or the way people communicated with me. As the class progressed I learned to analyze and figure out why certain people communicate differently. Why some people get along, and why some don't. I realized the importance of self disclosure in order to build a strong relationship. I've always met a lot of people, and wondered why sometimes it was just a hi and bye thing. However I realized that with my close friends, a great deal of self disclosure which is why I was so close with them. I see the importance of communication now, the importance of listening and expressing my opinions. I feel that communication can be learned, and in fact this course made me want to learn more about it. I find it very interesting and little by little it helps me lose my fear of communicating with others, and public speaking.

I don't think much needs to be changed or improved in the class. This worked great for me. I had taken HUC 101 before but I dropped it due to lack of interest, and just reading of power points. I find Prof. Trapani's practical approach and his exampled to be a very effective way of learning. His humorous examples are so easy to relate to, and the way he showed the weight we carry will never be forgotten. The learning truly is memorable and fun which stimulates students into wanting to learn more. This class went above my expectations, I definitely think it's on the top 5 most important course I've taken in my time in LaGuardia.

Watching the Projects

Today we got to watch all the Video Projects. I really enjoyed viewing all of them, many of them were very creative and humorous. It was a great relief to be done with the group project as it was a big part of our grade. I think our group did a good job at presenting information, although we did lack creativity, we did make it up in content. It was a great learning experience for me as it showed me where I belong in a group. It was also great experience as group work is highly needed in workplaces.

The Finale

This was a amazing class, I have learned the importance of communication in the everyday world and although communication i thought was a natural behavior, i was incorrect, it is definitely a skill that is learned. Some special topics that we covered were about self disclosure, Fear...The four letter word and the lesson about yourself. These topics convinced me to look deeper in myself to see who i really am and who i want to be. I am more self concious of how i communicate with others, so that i am not offensive. It has saved me alot of arguements knowing that if i argue there is no solution,You said that one class.Communication is a natural behavior but to be a good communicator you have to be taught. Everything was interesting every class and Trapani was engagiing so i wouldnot change anything. During the longer session i would suggest that the group project be extended so that the students are able to perfect there work. I also think that the last class was kind of confusing but that could just be my opinion since i got a low grade on the assestment. I will definitely apply this to my life from this point on, because i learned through the interviews that we did about our selves, that i am not the best communicator. i am going to strive to be more open and not let fear control my actions. My purpose from this point forward is to live in the self so that i can be more happy with myself and my life. This class has mutured me. "Our world is created through words"-Santo Trapani