ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
PRL3544 | Interpersonal Communication | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. İDİL KARADEMİRLİDAĞ SUHER |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor DENİZ SAYDAM SARIKARDAŞOĞLU |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The aim of this course is to introduce and discuss main research areas and theories in interpersonal communication. In addition to more general aspects of interpersonal communication, the focus will be on personal and special issues such as listening, verbal and nonverbal messages, power, and ethics in interpersonal communication. By providing a variety of interpersonal situations, the course will help students to be better equipped to make more informed and effective communication decisions. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Student define, the various meanings and definitions of interpersonal communication and social interaction 2) Describe the processes which influence the formation of self-concept and self-esteem and examine their own self-concept and self-esteem. 3) Describe and apply specific skills to the following areas of the human communication process: perception, empathy, listening, and power. 4) Students will develop increased skills in observing, analyzing, and critiquing their own communicative behaviors as well as those of others. 5) Students discuss the ethical dimensions of interpersonal communication. 6) Students learn the importance of verbal and nonverbal messages. Relations will be aware of that. 7) Students know, nature of power and its principles, its types, and the ways to communicate power 8) Students learn assertive strategies for managing conflict in their lives. 9) Students know, why and how relationships develop in workplace. |
Based on person recognizes itself, students can observe and analyze relationships where social interaction take place such as workplace and the community. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introductions and course overview. General Communication and interpersonal Communication. | |
2) | Nature of interpersonal communication | |
3) | The Self | |
4) | Self esteem | |
5) | Perception | |
6) | Listening | |
7) | Ethic | |
8) | Conversation | |
9) | Nonverbal Communication | |
10) | Power | |
11) | Conflict | |
12) | Relationships in the workplace | |
13) | case studies | |
14) | General review |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: | The Interpersonal Communication Book, by Joseph A. Devito 2001, Ninth edition, Addison Wesley Longman, Inc. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 73 |
Homework Assignments | 1 | 3 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 2 | 4 |
Total Workload | 125 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |