Communication Skills and Techniques

Code:

CINF033

Acronym:

TECOM

Instance: 2010/2011 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor of Arts in Information Science

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
CINF	55	Plano Oficial a partir de 2008/2009	1	-	5	4	4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Development of cognitive, formative and affective dimensions of language;
Development of linguistic, sociolinguistic and communicative competence;
Acquisition of oral and written communication skills useful for effective action in various situations of use.

Program

Communication:
- Communicative Act - interactive Act
- Components of communicative act
- The functions of communication
- Semiotic material , verbal, nonverbal, paraverbal

Oral Communication:
- Specificity of the oral mode (co-presence of interlocutors, strong contextual dependence; mobilizing different types of semiotic elements)
- From spontaneous speech to prepared speech
- Some communication techniques: the report, the presentation / exhibition; debate ...

Written Communication:
- Steps in drafting process: planning; textualization; review
- Structural principles of the text: coherence and cohesion
- Structure of some academic, journalistic and business writings: the report, the summary, the comment, the press release, the opinion article, the corporate presentation.

Text and discourse:
- The variety and functionality of discursive genres
- The compositional heterogeneity of the texts
- narrative, descriptive, argumentative, explanatory textual sequences

Enunciation:
- Statement vs. Sentence
- Enunciation - direct, delayed, reported (reported speech - direct, free direct, indirect, indirect free, evoked, hybrid narrativised)
- Speech modality
- Linguistic Registers (careful, current, familiar, popular)

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures and practical classes.
Tutorial guidance of students in carrying out small oral and written works in Portuguese.

keywords

Humanities > language sciences > Linguistics
Social sciences > Communication sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Description	Type	Time (hours)	Weight (%)	End date
Attendance (estimated)	Participação presencial	56,00
	Exame	2,00
	Exame	2,00
	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Trabalho escrito	20,00
	Total:	-	0,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Description	Type	Time (hours)	End date
	Estudo autónomo	35
	Total:	35,00

Eligibility for exams

Frequency of 75% of classes, except in the cases provided by law.
Positive note in the test / exam and practical work.

Calculation formula of final grade

Test: 70%
Research paper: 30%
Examination (applicable to special cases): 70%

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable

Classification improvement

According to FLUP regulation

Observations

Teaching language: Portuguese