Communication and Human Relationships

Code:

E204

Acronym:

CRH

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Psychology of Education

Instance: 2023/2024 - 2S

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fpceup/pt/ucurr_adm.ficha_uc_edit?pv_ocorrencia_id=421147
Responsible unit:	Education Sciences
Course/CS Responsible:	First degree in Educational Sciences

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
LCED	80	Official Curricular Structure	1	-	6	57	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students

Objectives

This curricular unit focus interpersonal communication, refering to people involved on communication processes of communication giving rise, maintaining and giving up human relationships. Its development is informed by Psychology, Social Psychology, Psychosociology and the Sociology of the actor.

Training objectives are as follows:

- to improve the understanding of the role of interpersonal communication on social action and research;

- to foster abilities to analyse situations of interpersonal communication;

- to give room to the developement of communication competences relevant to mediation processes

- to improve students social and personal development

Learning outcomes and competences

At the end of this UC it is hoped students to be able to:

Construct more elaborate cognitive frameworks for interpreting and analyzing communication situations and human relations

Use rationaly processes and techniques of communication  

Describe the role of categorization in social perception phenomena

Identify the role of inter-experiment in the deconstruction of phenomena of social exclusion

Distinguish between different kinds of systems of relationship development 

Describe conditions of rational conflict management

Recognize the interactive nature of social power

Describe the conditions of a helping relationship

Describe the characteristics of an intimate relationship

Identify phases of construction / structuring and desintegration of an intimate relationship

Describe the conditions of group decision making

Distinguish between types of leadership

Skills to be found: 

Mediation of processes of social and educational intervention

Implementing intervention, research and training projects taking into account the role of communication

Working method

B-learning

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

12 years schooling.
Basic knowledge on social sciences and education (1st semester)

Program

INTRODUCTION
Focus and perspectives of analysis. 

SOCIAL PERCEPTION
Categorization and inference
Norm of internality and fundamental failure in attribution
Social attribution and social jugement Stereotypes
Disguises and perceptive filters

COMMUNICATION
Communicability and communication modes
Structural patterns of interaction Dynamic of interactional systems: social power and conflicts management
Managing interaction

INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS
Sociability and relationship modes Power, helping and affectivity Distance and intimacy

GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS
Group interaction and identity Decision-making and cooperation Organizational systems
Power and leadership

Mandatory literature

Goffman Erving; A^apresentação do eu na vida de todos os dias. ISBN: 972-708-205-X
Littlejohn Stephen W.; Fundamentos teóricos da comunicação humana
Giddens Anthony; Modernidade e identidade pessoal. ISBN: 972-8027-73-7
DeBono E.; Conflits
Watzlawick Paul; Pragmática da comunicação humana. ISBN: 85-316-0314-5
Leyens Jacques-Philippe; Teorias da personalidade na dinâmica social
Rogers Carl R.; Tornar-se pessoa
Tajfel Henri; Grupos humanos e categorias sociais

Complementary Bibliography

Ribeiro Agostinho; O^corpo que somos. ISBN: 972-46-1434-4
Bateson G. 070; La^nouvelle communication. ISBN: 2-02-005860-X
Fiske John; Introdução ao estudo da comunicação. ISBN: 972-41-1133-4
Jodelet Denise ed. lit.; Les répresentations sociales. ISBN: ISBN 2-13-042102-4
Schutz, A.; La construción significativa del mundo Social - Introducción a la sociología comprensiva., Barcelona: Paidós., 1993
Berger Peter L.; A^construção social da realidade. ISBN: 85-326-0598-2
Scott, M., & Powers, W.; La comunicacion interpersonal como necesidad., Madride: Narcea., 1985
Moscovici Serge dir.; Psychologie sociale des relations à autrui. ISBN: ISBN 2-09-190758-8
Moser Gabriel; Les relations interpersonnelles. ISBN: ISBN 2-13-046094-1
Laing R. D.; O eu e os outros
Moscovici Serge; Psicología social. ISBN: 84-7509-342-6
Giddens Anthony; O mundo na era da globalização. ISBN: ISBN 972-23-2573-6
Schutz, A.; FIRO - a three-dimensional theory of interpersonal behavior., Nova Iorque: Rinehart Cº., 1958
Lopes Maria Amélia da Costa; Abordagem sistémica a problemas escolares
Ghiglione Rodolphe; L.^homme communiquant. ISBN: 2-200-31224-5
Giddens Anthony; Transformações da intimidade. ISBN: 972-8027-46-X
Ribeiro, A.; Comunicação e relação interpessoal. In Manual do Formador - Psicologia da Educação., Porto: GETAP., 1992
Watzlawick Paul; A realidade é real?. ISBN: ISBN 972-708-140-1
Hall Edward T.; A linguagem silenciosa. ISBN: ISBN 972-708-221-1
Berne Eric; Des jeux et des hommes. ISBN: 2-234-00250-8
Marc Edmond; A interacção social
Silva Elisabete Maria Soares Ferreira; Condenado a comunicar
Beauvois Jean-Léon; La psychologie quotidienne. ISBN: ISBN 2-13-038583-4
Fromm Erich; Ter ou ser?. ISBN: ISBN 972-23-2474-8
Lazar Judith; La science de la comunication
Petit François; Introduction à la psychosociologie des organisations. ISBN: 2-7089-13328

Teaching methods and learning activities

Contact hours

Structured, exemplified and sensitive exposure of contnts

Ideas and short texts debates

Analysis of communicative situations described / screened (video) individually and in groups

Group dynamics, as a point of departure / arrival / development / application of learning

Performing phenomena of communication

Presentation of scientific texts in group

Monitoring tutorial



 

Autonomous work

Reading texts individually and in groups, from  a collection provided by teachers

Organizing debates

Autonomous study

Writing personal synthesis of the text analyzed and presented in group

Group and individual work/writing

Software

Windows Media Player
Power-Point

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	20,00
Trabalho de campo	40,00
Trabalho escrito	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	55,00
Frequência das aulas	57,00
Trabalho de campo	50,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Students can fail 25% of the number of classes previewed .

Other cases are informed by FPCEUP evaluation norms 

Calculation formula of final grade

All the evaluation componentes will be marked in a 0-20 scale.

Final classification will result from:

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- reading, presentation and discussion of a text from a selected list (involving individual and teamwork) (20%)

- group (40%) and individual (40%) work 

 

Criteria of evaluation:

Group reading and presentation of a text:

- compliance with presentation time

- absence of errors or misunderstandings

- identification of the essential aspects of the text

- dynamics of presentation and debate

Individual and group  work:

- absence of errors or misunderstandings

- identification of the essential aspects of the topi

- writing correction

- correction of bibliographic references

 

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Internship work/project

Not applicable

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Evaluation of students beneficiaries of the legal status of student workers and failing status consists of a final examen (60%) and in the writing (5 pages) of a critical analysis of one of the texts being analysed.  Anyway, these students need to meet with the UC teachers at the beginning of the semester to clarify their evaluation modality. Evaluation of DA students will adjust to respective difficulties.

Classification improvement

Classification improvement can be done once, by examen.
This examen will take place in the same day that is previewed for the final examen.