COURSE DESCRIPTION

Communication skills are an essential element every employee and manager must have as part of their standard tool set.
Academic Goal
The course helps to produce civic-minded, competent communicators who can cope well with their professional lives. To that end, the course must demonstrate oral communication proficiency, while Communication Studies majors must demonstrate proficiencies in the theories, methodologies, and skills grounding the discipline.In this course, through interactive class sessions, self-assessments, role-playing activities, you gain practical experience initiating and responding to various forms of communication. You learn to handle situations based on a flexible, genuine and self-confident approach. These include organizational and interpersonal communication, rhetoric and public address.
Student Learning Objectives
Students enrolled in Communication Skills CP-105.Oral Communication courses receive instruction in and are expected to develop proficiency in:
1. Message Organization: structuring a message appropriately for audience comprehension
2. Message Development: creating logical and coherent messages that distinguish among cognitive, affective, dimensions of content.
3. Message Delivery: presenting and delivering a message with such variables as rate, pitch, and volume adjusted to the audience
4. Context and Situational Analysis: appropriately analyzing and adapting messages for specific audiences and in specific contexts and occasions
5. Listening: engaging in active and analytical listening as a receiver or audience member
6. Feedback: appropriately soliciting receiver feedback to check the accuracy and interpretation of messages
7. Communicator Self-Assessment: self-monitoring of messages to actively improve oral communication proficiency
8. Ethical, Credible Communication Practices: enhancing one’s believability by providing credible evidence, and engaging in civil and ethical language, dialogue, and feedback
9. Paraphrasing: Learn the difference between paraphrasing and plagiarism, and practice them in your writing.
10. Job Hunting: Knowing your self and preparing effective résumé.