COURSE OUTLINE
Course
Instructor: Bamuhiga, B.E
Subject Ante and
Title: SC 101: Communication Skills II
Subject status: Core
Credits rating: 7.5 credits
Time distribution:
Tutorials: 15 hours
Practical: 0 hours
Assignments: 25 hours
Pre requisite: None
Subject Expected Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students should be able to:
- Develop critical thinking skills through analyzing a problem in their discipline, evaluating sources, and creating a solution
- Develop academic literacy skills to read and write in an academic manner about content in their discipline in various academic forms
- Produce different forms of academic writing including term paper, paragraphs of various types, literature review, resource list, abstract, and essay question response
- Listen to lectures and discussions about content in their academic discipline and take notes effectively
- Speak in an academic manner (presentations, discussions, debates) about content in their academic discipline
- Read and comprehend content in their academic discipline using strategies such as skimming, scanning, SQ4R, affix awareness
Course content:
Introduction to communication;
meaning of
communication, forms of
communication, basic elements/models of communication, barriers of
communication, overcoming barriers of communication
Critical Thinking
skills: Analyzing,
evaluating, and creating
Listening and
Speaking skills: Analyzing purposes and forms of presentations, features of effective oral presentations,
developing active listening, listening to lectures and note taking, using
argumentative language and logic to express opinions, making oral presentations
and giving peer feedback
Reading
skills:
Recognizing and examining different types of academic writing for their
purposes and elements (i.e. research proposal, term papers, research report,
project report, experiments, abstracts), recognizing affixes (prefixes,
suffixes) which change word form, skimming and scanning through texts, using
SQ4R strategy for retention, identifying and evaluating sources of information,
reading extensively and intensively in appropriate contexts, interpreting
components of essay questions
Writing
skills: Characteristics
of effective academic writing (i.e. formal language, logical flow of ideas and
sentences - simple, compound & complex), paragraph structure and
organization in various patterns (i.e. cause
effect, descriptive, narrative, argumentative), essay planning and writing in
response to essay questions from students’ disciplines, referencing and citing
sources in APA format (in-text citation and end-text citation), paraphrasing to
avoid plagiarism, writing in academic forms (i.e. literature review, reference
list, abstract, term paper), revising academic writing, argumentative language
and logic to express opinions in writing
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