6 ECTS credits
150 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 1023548CNR for all students in the 2nd semester
at
a (C) Bachelor - specialised level.
- Semester
- 2nd semester
- Enrollment based on exam contract
- Impossible
- Grading method
- Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
- Can retake in second session
- Yes
- Enrollment Requirements
- Students who want to enroll for this course, must have passed for ’Introduction to Communication Studies' and must have obtained at least 90 ECTS-credits on bachelor level (Social Sciences).
Students in a master programme can follow this course.
- Taught in
- English
- Faculty
- Faculty of Social Sciences & SolvayBusinessSchool
- Department
- Communication Sciences
- Educational team
- Luk Van Langenhove
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
-
18 contact hours Lecture
18 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
114 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The overall purpose of this course is to introduce students to the theories and research in social psychology as it relates to human communication. The course will present an overview of theories and approaches as well as of problems in this area. Also, applications to diverse communication practices will be dealt with. The first part will present an overview of classical social psychology approaches to verbal and non-verbal communication. The second part will introduce novel approaches to the study of communication, inspired by the social constructionism and ‘discursive apporach’.
- Additional info
Slides and a reader will be made available on Canvas.
List of background reading material will be made available.
- Learning Outcomes
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Algemene competenties
Knowledge outcomes:
- to provide students with knowledge of classical and recent social psychological approaches to the study of human communication;
- to provide students with knowledge of how to approach the study of human communication using basic social psychological theories and techniques.
Skill outcomes:
- abilty to critically evaluate the social psychological literature on human communication;
- ability to research, prepare and deliver an overview of a topic area realted to the social psychology of communication;
- ability to analyse and synthesize complex literature relating to the social psychology of communication.
- Grading
-
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
- Oral Exam
with a relative weight of 1
which comprises 100% of the final mark.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Students will be given an assignment which will be discussed at the oral exam.
- Allowed unsatisfactory mark
- The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.
Academic context
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Communication Studies: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Master of Educational Sciences: Standaard traject