Syllabus - Course Objectives

Through regular attendance and active participation you will be able to:
• Identify the essentials of communication,
• Evaluate the interplay between verbal and non-verbal communication,
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the perceptual process of communication,
• Apply active listening and its principles in your communication,
• Overcome the barriers to thinking and communication,
• Increase your understanding of trust in relationships and be able to define and build trust,
• Evaluate the risks and advantages involved in increasing self disclosure,
• Identify dysfunctional conflict styles and apply strategies for resolving conflict,
• Execute effective interviewing principles by constructing and responding to questions for an employment interview,
• Participate in and evaluate small group discussion and leadership,
• Identify effective topics for public speaking, narrow them to fit the time and audience, construct the main ideas of a speech and support them, construct an effective introduction and conclusion, rehearse and effectively present a speech before an audience.