Communication: Crash Course for Beginners

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Communication: Crash Course for Beginners

Learn how communication works, enhance your communication skills, and Unlock your Verified Certificate of Completion

Understand how communication is created and works

• Get in-depth introduction to the field
• Familiarize with the definitions and models of Communication
• Get to know the traditions of the field
• Recognize communication contexts
• Enhance your critical thinking abilities
• Apply communication knowledge to your everyday working and personal life
• Make use of this course for your university classes

A must knowledge in the communication era

We live in a time where communication has become more and more pervasive and essential for our relationships, careers, private and public life. Still, we don't pay too much attention to it.

Do you recall that conversation episode when you didn't get through that conversation with someone with different cultural and social background from yours? Or, have you ever guessed why you can't have a constructive discussion with your boss no matter how much you try? You are not alone. We all do, we struggle to find out what went wrong but most of the times we miss the right answer. This happens because we think we know how to communicate, but reality proves us wrong.

That is why understanding how communication works is very important for it improves our communication skills and makes us more effective communicators.

Content and Overview

In this course you will learn the mechanisms that create and guide human communication. You will explore the various definitions of communication and see how it is created. You will go through the various traditions and contexts of the field and once you finish the course will not only be able to understand how communication works but you will also be able to recognize, analyze, and handle various communication situations. You will get familiar with the elements at play during the communication process and you will be able to communicate in a positive and a constructive way.

You can use this course to help you not only in your university classes (communication is a mandatory field in Law, Literature, Anthropology, Film, Translation, Psychology, Sociology, Political studies and also in Engineering and Computer Science ones), but also at work when you communicate with your colleagues and boss, and almost in every communication you have in your everyday life.

Complete this crash course for beginners, read and explore the material of the course and Unlock your Verified Certificate of Completion.