SUBJECT

Title

Field-Specific Communicational Skills Training

Type of instruction

practical

Level

master

Part of degree program
Credits

3

Recommended in

Semester 1

Typically offered in

Autumn semester

Course description

Aim of the course:

The course has multiple aims: socialization for collective work through communication skills practices; enhancing self-awareness and self-reflection and preparation for the field-specific communicational requirements. Different specializations have different focuses, based on the most important requirements of the field (improving nonverbal communicational skills, practicing the most challanging characteristics of the helping relations, practicing mediation, assertivity, group-leading...). Courses don’t discuss communication theories deeply, but give opportunity to practice them.

Learning outcome, competences

knowledge:

  • More detailed knowledge and understanding of the specific communicational processes

attitude:

  • Increasing the oppenness to deepen the understanding in specific communicational skills and requirements
  • Self-reflective

skills:

  • Developing specific skills in the selected fields.
  • Improving ability in following group-rules/norms
  • Improving self-reflection, verbalization

Content of the course

Topics of the course

  • introduction
  • socialization for coorporation
  • practicing field-specific communicational skills
  • ending, discussion

Learning activities, learning methods

interactive work, cooperative learning, individual and group work

Evaluation of outcomes

Learning requirements, mode of evaluation, criteria of evaluation:

requirements

  • active participation on the classes (max. 10% of cases of non-attendance)

mode of evaluation: practice mark (5 grade)

criteria of evaluation:

  • The course instructors determine it based on the characteristics of the course.
Readings

Compulsory reading list

  • The course instructors determine it based on the characteristics of the course, and inform the students at the beginning of the semester.

Recommended reading list

  • The course instructors determine it based on the characteristics of the course, and inform the students at the beginning of the semester.