Language & Communication Skills (Urdu & English)
Overview
• Course Objective:
1. This course is designed to enhance language and communication skills and develop critical thinking.
• Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able:
1. to apply foundational communication principles to a variety of contexts.
2. to present speeches in an organized manner.
3. to use technology to draft components of a presentation.
4. to integrate online research into a presentation.
5. to evaluate communication behaviors in multiple contexts.
6. to generate communication-based solutions for a given situation.
7. to articulate the relationship between communication and positive community change.
• Course Content
1. Paragraph writing
1.1 Practice in writing a good, unified and coherent paragraph
2. Essay writing
2.1 Introduction
3. CV and job application Translation skills
3.1 Urdu to English
4. Study skills
4.1 Skimming and scanning, intensive and extensive, and speed reading, summary and précis writing and comprehension
5. Academic skills
5.1 Letter / memo writing and minutes of the meeting, use of library and internet recourses
6. Presentation skills
6.1 Personality development (emphasis on content, style and pronunciation)
6.2 The students will be required to give presentations on the topics assigned by the teacher.
Credit hours/ Marks:- 3
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