1. INTRODUCTION TO
COMMUNICATION
YUDI SETYANINGSIH, M,PD

2. Course description
This course will cover the main
theoretical concepts of communication
as well as provide the conditions for
skills training. It will as well introduce
students to the further communication-
related courses to be delivered in PR
concentration

3. Course objectives
- to acquaint students with human communication
fundamentals through the analysis of the
interconnection between language, thought and
the world itself.
- to help students grow in awareness of each
man‘s role as a social being, an essential
communicator in a globally connected world,
where the relation with „the others“is not only
inevitable, but vital and decisive for the
individual and mankind, and where the human
factor still has to play the main role over
technological progress and mass
communication devices.

4. Course objectives cont’d
 To raise awareness of the impact on
communication quality and
effectiveness that verbal and non-
verbal communication features may
have, when visible and material
elements combine with a whole set of
immaterial phenomena in the same
communication process.

5. Learning outcomes
By the end of the course students will
hopefully have achieved the following:
• Practical awareness and wider knowledge-
based understanding of the social nature of
human beings as born for communication.
• Applicable knowledge of interpersonal,
intercultural, organizational and global
communication processes.
• Fluency and better command of specific
communication skills for interpersonal, group
and organizational communication situations,
such as international conferences, debates,
presentations, meetings, etc.

6. Teaching and learning
methods
The background theoretical input will be delivered in
the form of lectures, pre-reading task discussions
and general class debates.
In order to present the course material in the most
suitable and interesting format, effective
communication issues will also be dealt with
through practical and interactive activities in
seminars delivered for small groups. The lectures
are intended to generate discussion and debate
on several current affairs and their impact on
effective communication. Therefore active
participation is essential all along the course
activities such as simulated meetings and
negotiations; interactive presentations, speeches
at conferences, etc.

7. TOPICS
 Introduction
 Fundamentals of communication
 Competent Communication: Effective
and Appropriate
 Communication theories and models
 The process of communication
 Perception of Self and Others
 Barriers to communication: social,
cultural, ethnic.

8.  Culture and Gender
 Gender communication issues
 Intercultural communication
 Language and verbal communication:
 Sharing Meaning with Words
 The Nature of Language
 The Abstracting Process
 Competent Language Use

9.  Non-verbal communication Sharing
Meaning without Words
 Interconnectedness of Verbal and
Nonverbal Communication
 Communicating Competently with
Nonverbal Codes
 The Listening Process
 Competent Listening: Informational,
Critical and Empathic

10.  Making Relationships Work
 Forming and sustaining Relationships
 Relationships with Competent
Communication
 Technology and Competent
Interpersonal Relationships
 Cyber addiction and netiquette
 Basic concepts of Global
communication
 Media, technologies, organizations

11. Assessment
 Small quizzes 10%
 Big quizzes (projects/presentation)
45%
 Final exam 45%

12. THANK YOU