Courses persons responsible
Pentti Vanha-aho

Implementations

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	3 h/week	3 h/week	-	-	-
Exam

	Period 1	Period 2	Period 3	Period 4	Period 5	Summer
Lecture	-	-	-	3 h/week	3 h/week	-
Exam

(Timetable for academic year 2007-2008)

Objectives
To increase student's communication skills. To introduce students to the basic principles of communication theory. The course emphasizes various aspects of speech communication. Consideration is given to the theory and practice. It provides practice in preparation, presentation, communication interaction, and evaluation of different speech situations and negotiations. Aspects in intercultural communication are discussed.

Content

Content	Core content	Complementary knowledge	Specialist knowledge
1.	Communication theories, perspectives on human communication: -basic concepts, Johari Window, listening -mechanistic, psychologiacal, interactive, and pragmatic models -Johari Window, the disclosure of the self -speaker - listener relationship	-to apply models to the demands of different presentations, meetings, and negotiations
2.	Presentations -speaker-material-audience-occasion model, inventional approach -preparation of different presentations -persuasive and informative models -visual support and its impact	-key elements of the professional presentation applied to the situational variation	-knowledge how to plan presentations for culturally diverse audiences
3.	Intercultural communication -concept of the culture -stereotypes, ethnocentrism -low and high context cultures -cultural dimensions (Hofstede) -culture shock -intercultural aspects on nonverbal communication	-analysis of cultural diversity -analysis of the home culture and foreign target culture	-applying cultural competence
4.	Negotiation skills -negotiation concept and its key elements -preparation factors, process analysis, decision making -principled method of negotiating -practical skills of the participant and the chairperson	-means of persuasion and cooperation -understanding of the tactics and strategy

Requirements for completing the course
Lectures, exercises, final exam

Evaluation criteria for the course

Prerequisites
Prequisite relations (Sign up to TUT Intranet required)

Remarks

The course is mainly planned for the international exchange students, but there are some places for the Finnish students, too. The group size is limited to 16 students.

Distance learning

- In information distribution via homepage, newsgroups or mailing lists, e.g. current issues, timetables
- In compiling teaching material, particularly for online use or other electronic media
- In distributing and/or returning exercise work, material etc
- In the visualization of objects and phenomena, e.g. animations, demonstrations, simulations, video clips
- Other: presentations, video recordings
- The course utilizes a learning platform, which? Moodle

- Contact teaching: 45 %
- Distance learning: 0 %
- Proportion of a student's independent study: 55 %

-integration of lectures and exercises, learning by doing method
-active participation is required in all scheduled classes
-the final exam is usually an open book test, where students have available all the course material

Scaling

Methods of instruction	Hours
Lectures	15
Exercises	37.5
Assignments	16
Information and communication technology	4
Learning diary, portfolio and other written work	2
Total sum	74.5

Correspondence of content
TETA-1040 Speech Communication and Negotiation Skills

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Last modified	21.02.2007
Modified by	Pentti Vanha-aho