Courses

Communication & society

Course overview

Communication is an essential skill for everyone, especially for the future-proof professionals U!REKA wants to craft. Doing it in an international setup can be challenging, given the cultural differences, the different technical backgrounds, and the different lexicons of others. In this course, we set up a set of challenges that include peer learning, reflection activities, debating sessions, and presentations, to help you develop your soft skills and communication competencies.

Course content

  • Introduction to critical thinking
  • Pitch, presentation and self-evaluation
  • Authoring formal reports, contents, typical editorial formats and best international practices
  • Preparing public presentations and build posters
  • Tools to carry and to organize literature research
  • Debate sessions
  • Presentations

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course students will be able to:

  1. think interdisciplinary and act cooperatively regarding other cultures and value systems.
  2. comprehend the relations within their future professional fields regarding different disciplines as well as societal aspects.
  3. describe these relations professionally as well as represent them argumentatively in debate
  4. reflect the impacts and effects of their professional and societal actions and draw conclusions from these for their own conduct.
  5. reflect and discuss relevant topics (society, art, culture, science).
  6. use their foreign language skills.
  7. research literature.
  8. write reports formats, contents, and corresponding presentations.
  9. act in an international and intercultural team and deal with intercultural differences in communication.

Enrollment

This course is currently not open for enrollment.

Course information

Category

Transversal skills

Format

Online

Target groups

U!REKA staff, U!REKA students

Academic year

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Starting month

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Language

English

Duration​

A semester

Organising institution​

Polytechnic University of Lisbon

Places reserved for U!REKA participants​

20

Assessment

Individual (60 percent) / group (40 percent)

Credit/degree/certificate

6 ECTS credits

Course fee

300,- €

Prerequisites

N/A
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