Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION	UHİL1302	6. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	6.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors
Assistants
Goals	It is aimed to define the various components of interpersonal communication from an interdisciplinary perspective and to reveal the relationship between them with a critical approach.
Course Content	The content of the course consists of models and criticisms of interpersonal communication in the context of social context, perception processes, language and ideology.
Learning Outcomes	1) 1.Explain the relationship between interpersonal communication and different disciplines. 2) 2. Defines interpersonal communication. 3) 3. Recognizes different approaches and models related to interpersonal communication. 4) 4. Explains the basic communication skills. 5) 5. Criticizes the limitations of the perspective that reduces communication to social skills. 6) 6. Explains the basic components of interpersonal communication process. 7) 7. Evaluates the relationship between social context, social identity and social perception as components of the interpersonal communication process. 8) 8. Defines the role of social and physical environment in interpersonal communication. 9) 9. Separates social identity and social perception into its elements. 10) 10. Explains how social identity and social perception is formed and functions. 11) 11. Exemplify the codes of verbal and non-verbal communication as components of the interpersonal communication process.

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Meeting and expressing expectations from students
2. Week	Making sense of interpersonal communication: Various approaches and models
3. Week	Communication approach as skill
4. Week	Criticism of the communication approach as skill
5. Week	Social context model for making sense of interpersonal communication
6. Week	Summary and criticism of the common approach to interpersonal communication
7. Week	The importance of social context in interpersonal communication: Social and physical environment
8. Week	The importance of social context in interpersonal communication: Social and physical environment
9. Week	Self-concept in interpersonal communication: development of self-concept, its characteristics and its relations with “identity”
10. Week	Perception process in interpersonal communication: Features of social perception
11. Week	Codes in interpersonal communication: Codes of nonverbal communication
12. Week	Codes in interpersonal communication: Codes of nonverbal communication
13. Week	Establishment of language, ideology and power relations in interpersonal communication and discursive closure strategies
14. Week	General Evaluation

Recommended Sources

Freedman, J. L., Sears D.O., Carlsmith, J.M., Sosyal Psikoloji, çev. Ali Dönmez, İmge Kitabevi Yayınları, Ankara, ss. 94-127, 422-463

Hartley, Peter, Kişilerarası İletişim, Ankara İmge Kitabevi Yayınları,2010

*DK = Course's Contrubution.

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Level of contribution	None	Very Low	Low	Fair	High	Very High

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	15	3	45
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	15	2	30
Quiz	2	1	2
Time to prepare for Quiz	2	2	4
Final Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	5	5
	1	1	1
	1	1	1
Dönem Sonu Sınavı (DSS)	1	1	1
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30