307552 (v.1) Communication Skills 011


Area:

Faculty of Science

Credits:

25.0

Contact Hours:

2.0
 
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
 

Lecture:

1 x 2 Hours Weekly
 

Syllabus:

Finding topics and sources of information, interpreting topics, forming thesis statements and topic sentences. Online research skills. Oral presentations - designing and using visual aids and handouts, adapting language to audience, purpose and context. Library, researching a topic, Harvard referencing. Collaborative investigation - interpersonal communication, interviewing and surveying, developing criteria to evaluate a subject. Incorporating action research in written reports, interpreting and organising information, editing and revising.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 

Field of Education:

100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)

HECS Band (if applicable):

1

Extent to which this unit or thesis
utilises online information:

Essential

Result Type:

Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External
2004 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y    
Area
External
refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research.
Central
External
refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area