Communication skills - University Professor

JADA eLearning new course.









Course Introduction and Description of Lecture Plan



As the table above indicates, the course contents are distributed over twelve modules.

Each module consists a minimum of one to a maximum of five lectures, and in total, the

twelve modules amount to forty lectures.

The focus of this course is on communication

skills, which cover the four major language skills, namely, reading, writing, listening,

and speaking. In Module I, I talk about Introduction to Communication and the Need for







Effective Communication. In the following module, Module II, I talk about Barriers to

Communication and Overcoming Measures to these Barriers to Communication. You

will come to know of those barriers and obstacles, which actually cause impediments to

effective communication. In Module III, after introducing you to the operative principles

communication, its effectiveness, and then various associated concepts on overcoming

the barriers to communication,

I will be focusing on Non-Verbal Communication with

detailed descriptions of Body Language. This module highlights the soft skills relevant

for performing well in professional activities like group discussion and interviews.

Module IV deals with Listening Skills and answers in detail the following questions: Why

do we need listening skills? How to enhance our listening skills? How to be a better

listener? How to be an active listener?













The video resources in this course is based on the free online courseware of "Communication Skills" (available at NPTEL website with course id: 109104031) by NPTEL which is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available under the License Notes section in the NPTEL webpage.



