Syllabus Template
Syllabus Template
Syllabus Template
Course Description: Purposive Communication (PC) is about writing, speaking, and presenting to different audiences
and for various purposes (CMO 20 s. 2013). It is a three-unit course that develops students’ communicative competence
and enhances their cultural and intercultural awareness through multimodal tasks that provide them opportunities for
communicating effectively and appropriately to a multicultural audience in a local or global context. It equips students with
tools for critical evaluation of a variety of texts and focuses on the power of language and the impact of images to
emphasize the importance of conveying messages responsibly. The knowledge, skills, and insights that students gain
from this course may be used in their other academic endeavors, their chosen disciplines, and their future careers as they
compose and produce relevant oral, written, audio-visual and / or web-based output for various purposes.
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
1. Describe the nature, elements, and functions of verbal and non-verbal communication in various and multicultural
contexts.
2. Explain how cultural and global issues affect communication.
3. Determine culturally appropriate items, expressions, and images
4. Evaluate multimodal texts critically to enhance receptive (listening, reading, viewing) skills.
5. Summarize the principles of academic text structure
Skills
1. Convey ideas through oral, audio-visual, and / or web-based presentations for different target audiences in local
and global settings using appropriate registers.
2. Create clear, coherent, and effective communication materials.
3. Present ideas, persuasively using appropriate language registers, tone, facial expressions, and gestures.
4. Write and present academic papers using appropriate tone, style, conventions, and reference styles.
Values