Communicating for Equity, Agency and Engagement

This course aims to develop students’ communication and interaction skills for effective professional engagement that enacts equity and develops agency through dialogic pedagogy. The course aims to develop students’ receptive and productive professional communicative skills, foregrounding listening and speaking, and developing specific professional communicative skills such as turn-taking, effective talk moves, feedback strategies, voice quality and non-verbal interaction. The course covers a range of professional communicative contexts including contemporary digital modes of communication, face-to-face communication, monologues, formal presentations, dialogue, multilingual and intercultural communication, and conflict resolution.