PSYCHOLOGY OF COMMUNICATION (2 SCU)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this course, students will be able to: describe about the natural context of communication as one of a series of channels available for humans to send and receive information through the perspective of Psychology of Communication; apply gesture and facial communication, conversation management, and other topics in professional ethics in communication behavior; analyze the production of conversation and speech, perception and understanding of speech, as well as the reality of meaning construction designed by individuals using communication research methodologies from a psychological perspective.

Topics:

1. The Nature of Communication;
2. Channels of Human Communication;
3. Kinesic Channels of Human Communication;
4. The Developmental Impact of Communicative Interaction;
5. Social World and Dialogue;
6. The Stream of Behaviour (Co-ordinating verbal and nonverbal channels);
7. Conversation as Cooperative Interaction;
8. Conversational Structure;
9. Writing;
10. Social Influence;
11. Pragmatic Theory and Social Relations;
12. Communicative Action and Public Sphere;
13. Representations, Identity and Resistance.