Pristupačnost
Communication Skills
Data is displayed for the academic year: 2025./2026.
Lecturers
Lectures
Laboratory exercises
Seminar
Course Description
Communication skills are necessary for engineers to efficiently communicate knowledge, tasks, or ideas in their working environment to their team members, superiors or investors. Within the course, students acquire knowledge and skills related to the main communication needs of engineers, especially public speaking, oral and written communication, and preparation of multimedia content.
Study Programmes
University undergraduate
[FER3-EN] Computing - study
(1. semester)
[FER3-EN] Electrical Engineering and Information Technology - study
(1. semester)
Learning Outcomes
- Write a structured and narrative CV and present themselves orally
- Show their work and results in written and oral form to both experts and the general public
- Describe and communicate information, activities, needs and intentions effectively in oral, written and graphic form
- Design and create an effective photo, sound and video recording
- Select and evaluate relevant information and critically analyze it
- Plan and effectively execute meetings and negotiations
- Analyze communication problems, avoid them and solve them
- Compare cultural differences and norms, respect them and adopt them appropriately
Forms of Teaching
Lectures
In live lectures students and the lecturer discuss the subject for which they have prepared through research and class preparatory assignment. Posting questions and answers via AudIT system students actively contribute to the lecture and their learning. The lecturer helps forming conclusions, lays out the theoretical basis, provides guidance for the application of new knowledge and give guidelines for further independent learning. If necessary, the teacher explains the homework following the lecture.
Seminars and workshopsStudents will prepare and deliver a lecture.
Independent assignmentsHomework
OtherClass preparation assignments
Grading Method
| Continuous Assessment | Exam | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Threshold | Percent of Grade | Threshold | Percent of Grade | ||
| Homeworks | 50 % | 35 % | 50 % | 40 % | ||
| Quizzes | 50 % | 10 % | 0 % | 0 % | ||
| Class participation | 50 % | 10 % | 0 % | 0 % | ||
| Seminar/Project | 50 % | 25 % | 50 % | 35 % | ||
| Mid Term Exam: Written | 0 % | 1 % | 0 % | |||
| Final Exam: Written | 0 % | 19 % | ||||
| Exam: Written | 50 % | 25 % | ||||
Comment:
When completing the course through continuous assessment/learning:
- Quizzes in the table above refer to class preparation assignments available on Moodle for some lecture topics.
- Course passing prerequisites are: 1) achieving the 50% threshold in each activity category, 2) achieving the 50% threshold in midterm plus final exam, and 3) achieving at least 60 course credits in total.
- Assignment credits achieved in the Homework category (assignments email, curriculum vitae and motivation letter, slideshow, photography, video, and pitch presentation) are scaled to 40% of the total number of course credits. Students can improve and re-submit any of those assignments. To complete the course students must achieve the 50% threshold in each of those assignments.
- For any Homework assignment that a student submits in the exam period the assignment credit they achieved during continuous assessment is deleted and the new credit that they achieve is assigned.
- The pitch presentation assignment will in the exam period be held in a session where all students registered for the exam period will participate.
- The Project assignment credits are not transferred from continuous classes to exam periods. The Project assignment is in the exams period completed by holding a lecture that students should independently arrange and hold physically (not online) in a library, a school (primary or secondary), or an elderly home in minimum duration of 30 minutes (excluding audience questions) in front of an audience of at least 10 people. Students should independently arrange and hold the lecture on the topic of their choice and at a time agreed upon with the host institution. At the exam period, students should submit a certificate from the head of the institution confirming that they held the lecture, a recording of the lecture, and a signature sheet from the lecture. The lecture can be delivered in any language.
Week by Week Schedule
- Introduction and learning
- Slideshows
- Curriculum vitae and cover letter
- Negotiating, meetings, personalities
- Listening, speaking, conflicts
- Public speaking and presentations
- Midterm exam
- Scientific, professional, and popular writing
- Web search and sources evaluation
- Photography and videography
- Students' presentations - pitching
- Seminar
- Cultural differences and etiquete
- Final exam
Literature
John W. Davies (2001.), Communication skills,
Thomas E. Harris, John C. Sherblom (2018.), Small Group and Team Communication, Waveland Press
General
ID 209625
Winter semester
4 ECTS
L2 e-Learning
30 Lectures
3 Seminar
0 Exercises
5 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises
Grading System
90 Excellent
80 Very Good
70 Good
60 Sufficient
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