Event details

Communication is the basis of interpersonal cooperation and information transfer. The course offers GuG students the opportunity to get to know central communication models and types as well as presentation contexts. On this basis, they can then draw conclusions for their own verbal and visually supported communication – both during their studies and beyond.
The course also pays particular attention to the specific communication situation: for talks and presentations to be successful, it is not only important to assess the target audience in advance and prepare information in a targeted manner, but also to be able to establish and maintain contact with the audience according to the situation. A verbally and non-verbally coherent performance that does not come across as artificial and positively emphasizes your own personality helps you to communicate confidently and makes it easier for others to follow the speaker.
Various lecture and presentation formats are tested in practical exercises and by means of feedback. At the same time, students work on developing their own individual communication style.

Workload for ECTS:

1 ECTS: Active participation in the workshop dates
Preparation and delivery of two short presentations (one of them in the course “Vermessungskunde I” by Dr. Manfred Juretzko)

Admission requirements:

Please note: Participation in the course is only possible in combination with the specialist course “Fit for studies and career”.

Learning objectives:

• Develop an understanding of communication as an interactive process based on different communication models
• Know the specifics of presentations compared to other types of communication
• Know standards of (scientific) presentations, be able to reproduce them in their own words and imitate them
• Know and be able to reflect on different presentation occasions; be able to derive consequences for your own presentation and communication style from this
• Know the basics of slide design (pptx)
• Be able to make presentations “memorable” (structure, common thread, reduction of material)
• Know and take into account paraverbal and non-verbal aspects of communication (including posture, movement in space, gestures, facial expressions, intonation, dynamics, tempo)
• Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of their own communication style and work on them in a targeted manner
• Know the rules of giving and receiving feedback